The Open Standard for
Portable Trust and Acceptance
A shared, open evidence standard for decisions that have to cross organisational boundaries.
The Verida Charter Foundation sets the standards for portable trust — defining the schemas, conformance, and governance that allow verification outcomes to travel between institutions.
The Foundation governs the rules.
Implementers build the systems.
Data moves.
Trust doesn't.
A file can move. A PDF can move. An API payload can move. What does not move with them is everything that made them trustworthy: the reasoning, the verification, the approval chain, the compliance status, the authority behind the decision, the acceptance outcome. So every organisation rechecks, revalidates, re-audits, and re-enters the same information, at every boundary, every time.
What is missing is a shared, open evidence standard for decisions that have to cross organisational boundaries: a neutral, governed record of who reviewed something, under what rules, with what authority, with what outcome, and whether it still stands. Not the data itself. The acceptance context around it.
The Foundation exists to steward that standard.
Defines Schemas
The Foundation is developing the open, vendor-neutral schemas, enums, and structures that will define how trust evidence is expressed across institutions.
Stewards the Trust Framework
The Foundation maintains the registries, governance documents, and standards lifecycle that keep the framework neutral, geopolitically balanced, and resistant to capture.
Governs Conformance
The Foundation is establishing the conformance and certification framework that will let independent implementations be evaluated against the standard — independent of any implementer.
Convenes Working Groups
The Foundation convenes industry, government, and civil society in working groups, Advisory Councils, and the ten-stage standards lifecycle. Trust before speed.
Open Standards.
Verifiable Outcomes.
The Foundation is developing the open specification that will define how trust evidence is structured, signed, and made portable. Conformant implementations will produce outcomes that are independently verifiable and not owned by any single party — so acceptance, approval chains, and authority context can travel between institutions.
Aligned with the standards the
world already runs on.
The Foundation's standards work is designed to interoperate with established international frameworks across identity, insurance, AML, trade, customs, finance, supply chain, and sustainability — not replace them. Where mature standards exist, VCF will reference. Where none exist, VCF will define.
Support the Foundation. Strengthen the Standards.
The Verida Charter Foundation's Board of Governors is being established — the non-voting membership body for organizations that financially support the standards work and participate in working groups. Three tiers (Founding, Strategic, Associate). Five categories (Corporate, Government, Multilateral, Standards Body, Civil Society). Benefits scaled by contribution. Governance authority, by structural invariant, reserved to the Foundation. Money buys benefits, not votes.