The national platform for the Ghana Gold Board, operating under the Ghana Gold Board Act 2025 (Act 1140). Licensing, chain of custody, royalty collection, AML compliance, satellite enforcement, and beneficial ownership in one system.
GoldBod is the sole authority for buying, selling, assaying, and exporting gold in Ghana. GIGGS implements the applicable sections of Act 1140 in software.
GoldBod as sole buyer, seller, assayer, and exporter of ASM gold. Every transaction is recorded and audited.
All gold purchases settle in Ghana Cedis at the Bank of Ghana daily reference rate.
Every batch is traced from source mine through to export, with GPS tagging and a seven-step custody chain.
Licensed buyers are screened against international AML, sanctions, and PEP databases.
Licensed entities submit purchase reports by the 5th of each month. Late submission triggers automatic penalties.
Foreign nationals are restricted from local gold trading. Foreign buyers must apply through GoldBod directly.
Each batch carries a cryptographic identifier from extraction through delivery. If any step is missing, the export permit cannot be issued.
GIGGS combines six core capability areas into one integrated system, calibrated for Act 1140.
Sentinel-2 RGB identifies surface gold signatures. Sentinel-1 SAR penetrates cloud cover. NDWI and NDVI overlays detect galamsey water-pits and deforestation. Sentinel-3 thermal flags illegal smelting hotspots.
Each batch carries a cryptographic identifier from extraction through export. Custody transfers require dual confirmation. Missing steps block the export permit.
Artisanal miners register via *714# on any phone. Five Ghanaian languages supported. Registrations sync to the central registry within seconds.
Conversational AI on every screen, drawing from live operational data. Drafts compliance reports, screens AML risk, predicts galamsey hotspots, and explains Act 1140 in context.
Material approvals — licences, enforcement actions, staff access — flow to the Managing Director's secure dashboard with a complete audit trail.
Custody transfers, MD approvals, AML flags, and audit events commit to a Hyperledger Fabric network operated by nine institutional nodes — Bank of Ghana, GRA, Minerals Commission, FIC, accredited refiners, partner banks, and GoldBod. No single party — including GoldBod itself — can alter history without majority consensus. Smart contracts (chaincode) enforce Act 1140 directly.
Each module loads independently. If one fails, the rest continue. Updates ship per-module without downtime.
Sourced from the London Bullion Market, the Bank of Ghana, ESA Copernicus, and the GIGGS operational database.
GIGGS meets the standards required of a national gold platform.
Every applicable section of the Ghana Gold Board Act enforced digitally.
Personal data processed under Ghanaian law with privacy by design.
Public transparency portal and beneficial-ownership registry.
Hyperledger Fabric · 9 institutional nodes · multi-party consensus.