Mission
The Verana Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to rebuilding digital trust in an era of agentic AI, identity theft, misinformation, and opaque governance. It stewards open standards and decentralized infrastructure for secure, verifiable, interoperable, and privacy-respecting communication between people, services, and AI agents.
What we steward
The Foundation is the custodian of the ecosystem’s shared, off-network assets:
- Specifications — the Foundation owns and hosts the two specifications, authored in the open (2060 is lead author): Verifiable Trust and Verifiable Public Registry (VPR). Both are licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Open-source software — the Foundation hosts, stewards and maintains the reference implementations, released as open source; copyright is held by the contributors, so the Foundation stewards rather than owns the code. See github.com/verana-labs.
- VNA token — the Foundation, via the Verana BVI Token Issuer, issues and administers the VNA token, the protocol’s native utility token, which it does not own.
Status
The Foundation is a non-profit structured so that no single party can capture it. It is in formation; 2060 OÜ acts as its organizer and steward pre-incorporation. The final entity map and jurisdiction are being confirmed.
Membership
There are two membership classes — Associate Member and Contributor Member — the latter open to both organizations and individuals. Founding members are 2060 OÜ, Mobiera, and Orchestrating Identity. Compare membership and join → To participate in the working groups, see Working Groups.
What the Foundation is not
- Not the network’s governance or security body — that is the Verana Council.
- It does not run validator nodes.
- It does not own the VNA token.
- It does not hold commercial customer contracts.
- It is not a product vendor.