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Fabrice RochetteBy Fabrice Rochette

Mission · June 24, 2026

A public trust layer with a built-in separation of powers

A trust layer for the internet cannot be owned or controlled by any single party. Here is how Verana is built so that none can.

Rebuilding trust is not just about technology. It is about who holds the power.

Verana is rebuilding digital trust for an era of AI agents, identity theft, and opaque online governance. But a trust layer for the internet cannot be owned or controlled by any single party. If it could, it would simply reproduce the problem it set out to solve: a web where a handful of gatekeepers decide who and what is trustworthy.

So Verana is built on a deliberate separation of powers, carried by two independent institutions that check and balance each other.