Verana Foundation · in formation
The non-profit steward of the open trust layer.
A non-profit rebuilding digital trust for the agentic web. The Foundation owns the specifications, stewards the open-source software under Apache 2.0, and grows the ecosystem around it — in the open, with its community.
Owns the specifications
Verifiable Trust and VPR — authored in the open, owned and hosted by the Foundation.
Stewards the open source
Reference implementations maintained under Apache 2.0; copyright held by contributors.
Grows the ecosystem
Grants, integrations, developer relations, partnerships, and the open-source community.
Issues & administers VNA
The protocol's native utility token — which the Foundation does not own.
The Foundation is fully separate from the Verana Council, which governs and secures the live network. See the Council →
Owned & hosted
Specifications
A living commons
Built in the open, by a community
Contributors
Everyone who authors the specs and maintains the software, in public. How to contribute →
Working groups
Verifiable Trust spec WG
Authors and maintains the Verifiable Trust specification.
VPR spec WG
Authors and maintains the Verifiable Public Registry specification.
Software WGs
Maintain the open-source code: VPR, Indexer, VS-Agent, Frontend.
Join a working group → (membership required)
Membership
Two ways to join the Foundation
Associate Member
dues by org sizeOrganizations that support and align with the mission — strategic engagement, advisory input, ecosystem development, research. Non-technical.
Contributor Member
€0 — freeOrganizations contributing technical & standards work through the working groups — software, specs, schemas. Greater technical obligations.