Verana Foundation

To empower digital trust and privacy by developing open standards, decentralized infrastructure, and transparent governance frameworks that enable secure, verifiable, and user-controlled interactions across the digital world

Verana Foundation

To empower digital trust and privacy by developing open standards, decentralized infrastructure, and transparent governance frameworks that enable secure, verifiable, and user-controlled interactions across the digital world
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Decentralization

Establish open standards and infrastructure that empower users, avoiding centralized control and dependency.

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Verifiable Trust

Enable trustworthy interactions and identities using cryptographically secure verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.

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Privacy and User Control

Prioritize user privacy, data sovereignty, and minimal disclosure, placing people in complete control of their digital identities and personal information.

About the Verana Foundation

The Verana Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to rebuilding digital trust in an era where the web’s original promise of openness, privacy, and decentralization has been undermined. In response to the growing challenges of identity theft, misinformation, and opaque governance in online systems, Verana is stewarding the development of open standards and decentralized infrastructure to support secure, verifiable, interoperable, and privacy-respecting communication.

Through its flagship specifications — the Verifiable Trust Specification and the Verifiable Public Registry Specification — the foundation defines a new trust layer for the internet, built on Verifiable Credentials (VCs), decentralized identifiers (DIDs), and permissioned trust registries.

The Verana Foundation will launch the Verana Verifiable Trust Network, the first implementation of a Verifiable Public Registry (VPR). Within this network, the Foundation will operate its own Trust Registry to define, publish, and govern Essential Credential Schemas (ECSs). This network will serve as a global trust infrastructure, allowing verifiable services, user agents, and ecosystems to rely on a common set of governed credential types anchored in decentralized identifiers and cryptographic proof.

As the steward of Essential Credential Schemas (ECS), the Verana Foundation not only defines the minimum set of credentials required for establishing trust in digital services and user agents, but also governs their issuance through a transparent and community-driven governance framework. This includes appointing issuer grantors and authorized issuers to ensure that ECS credentials can be relied upon as the foundational trust anchors of a decentralized digital ecosystem.

Board Members

(Last modified on April 10, 2025)