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The manufacturing as well as marketing of counterfeit or duplicate products and goods lead to consequential financial, health, and safety threats to end users. It also hurts the economic growth of original manufacturers and businesses through revenue loss, product defamation, downtime, replacement expenses, forcing many brands to spend money on fighting counterfeits, trust among business partners can also be at risk, stealing sales, etc. To overcome and stop these crucial effects of counterfeiting, a blockchain-based system is used in the identification of original products and also detects duplicate products to ensure the identification of original goods. In this project, with massive emerging trends in wireless technology, QR (Quick Response) codes, and barcodes provide a technique to cut down the practice of counterfeiting products. The fake products are identified using a camera scanner, where the QR or barcode of the product or goods is linked to a blockchain to store product details, and the guaranteed unique code of each product is stored as blocks in the database. If the code in the product matches, the notification will be sent to the customer indicating the authenticity of the product and if it does not match the code in the database, a notification will be sent to the customer indicating that the product is fake or counterfeited and notification is also sent to the manufacturer about the place of purchase if the customer accepts the request made by the application. This approach to cutting down counterfeit ensures that consumers won't completely rely on merchants to determine if products are original or forged.