About
The trust layer the internet never had
Verana is the open, public, neutral trust infrastructure: the trust layer that lets humans, organizations, services, and AI agents prove who they are and verify each other before they connect.
Vision & mission
Verify first, then connect
The web solved encryption, but never solved verified identity of the acting party. Verana's mission is to make verifiable trust public infrastructure, like DNS or the web itself: open standards, open-source software, and a permissionless public network where anyone can join or build sovereign trust ecosystems, and where every service, organization, person, and AI agent can be verified before the first interaction.
No vendor stack, no consortium chain you must be admitted to, no closed identity silo. Owned by no one, with named stewards answering for each piece:
The steward
Verana Foundation
The Verana Foundation is the non-profit steward of the commons: it owns and maintains the Verifiable Trust and Verifiable Public Registry specifications and stewards the open-source reference implementations.
Its work happens in public working groups where members advance the specifications and the software together; membership and grants are how organizations and individuals take part. Everything the Foundation produces stays open: the specs are openly licensed and the code is open source.
Working groups, membership, and grants live on the Foundation site.
veranafoundation.orgThe governor
Verana Council
The Verana Council is a neutral, non-profit Swiss association that governs and secures the live network and the ECS Ecosystem (the identity baseline every other ecosystem relies on). Its model is built so that no single party can own the trust layer: up to 25 seats, one member one vote, membership free of charge, and every member runs a validator node; only members may.
The Council governs only the constitutional commons: it has no instrument to reach inside the sovereign ecosystems built on the network. Seats are held by identified, diverse, term-bound organizations.
The Council has open seats: founding-member recruitment is underway on the Council site.
veranacouncil.orgverana.io is the network and software site. Governance, membership, and program questions belong to the Foundation and the Council; this page only points the way.