Annual audit, narrow sample, one firm
- CadenceOnce a year, months after the fact
- CoverageSampled records, not the full ledger
- MethodManual, firm-specific, opaque
- TrustOne auditor's signature, take it or leave it
- CostSix figures, borne by the reporter
VCC is the open verification network for sustainability data. Your numbers stay private, independent operators verify the math, and anyone can audit the result.
All names represent current or previous collaborations and partnerships.
Today's audit sees a sample, once a year. VCC sees every calculation, continuously.
Watch a single verification move from private data to public proof.
The company's operational record stays inside their own network. The VCC Gateway, also running in their VPC, turns it into a cryptographic commitment. Only that fingerprint is ever published.
The applicable methodology lives on the network, published once by the standards body as versioned code. Every verification runs against that exact rulebook.
A network of independent operators runs that methodology against the data, privately. When they agree, the result is final.
Accredited auditors run their own verification on every round, continuously. Their attestations publish alongside the consensus, turning a verified record into an assurance-grade one.
Proofs land on the Explorer, free to inspect. Private data stays private. Auditors, regulators, and developers request scoped access through VCC Launchpad, approved by the data owner.
Data moves in one direction. Money moves in the other.
The enterprise pays once. The fee distributes to methodology, compute, and attestation, per verification.
From the rulebook to the public record. Every piece designed to work together.
A visual editor for authoring methodologies as versioned code. Standards bodies design once, the network executes everywhere.
The private entry point, deployed inside your own network. Raw data never leaves. Only a cryptographic fingerprint is sent onward.
Independent operators run VCC Runtime to verify rounds and vote. Honest execution earns, private consortiums and public networks both supported.
The onboarding hub. Register a role, request scoped data access, buy API keys for analytics, manage subscriptions. Approvals route automatically to the right parties.
The free, public interface to every proof on the network. Trace any claim to its methodology, operators, and auditor. No account needed.
Whether you submit, verify, audit, or build on top, there's a clear pathway. Pick yours.
Submit operational records to VCC Gateway, get verified proofs back. Your raw data never leaves your infrastructure.
Author industry methodologies as versioned code. Every verification that uses your standard pays you automatically.
Install VCC Runtime, subscribe to solution groups, verify rounds as they come in. Honest execution, transparent earnings.
Register once, request scoped data access through Launchpad, then sign every round automatically as part of the network.
Buy API keys through Launchpad, query public verified records or request scoped private access. Build dashboards, analytics, intelligence.
Every verified record lives on VCC Explorer, free to search. Trace any claim back to its methodology, operators, and auditor.
Live systems, active pilots, and completed trials.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel certificate verification, live on verify.safcregistry.org. Every retirement runs seven independent checks against the registry's ruleset, automated and on-chain.
A shared compute group of subscribed operators around the world, ready to run any methodology. Build your logic in Studio, publish to the Launchpad, go live for a trial period in minutes.
Two open initiatives keep the network honest. Methodologies are certified, platforms are permissioned, every decision is public.
A multi-stakeholder body that certifies methodologies as verifiable-ready. Standards bodies, regulators, and industry groups define what "good enough" means for each market.
The open technical standard underneath VCC. Anyone can implement it. The protocol defines how methodologies, consensus, and attestation interoperate.
A single REST endpoint to submit. A public Explorer to verify. Open-source Runtime to operate. Start in minutes.
// Submit an operational record to VCC Gateway. // Raw data stays inside your network. const result = await vcc.gateway.submit({ methodology: "ghg-protocol-scope2-v1", payload: meterReading, // private commit: true }); // Result is a public fingerprint. console.log(result.fingerprint); // >> a3f9…c2b1 // Wait for consensus and auditor attestation. const verified = await result.waitForAttestation(); // verified.status === "assurance-grade"
Honest answers about what VCC is, what it isn't, and how it compares.
Traditional audit is periodic, expensive, and narrow, typically one snapshot per year by one firm on a limited scope. VCC runs continuously. Every record is verified automatically by an independent operator network, and auditors attest on every round. Human auditors still play a crucial role, but the work they do is on top of continuous consensus, not instead of it.
No. A registry just stores records. VCC verifies computation. Registries tell you a certificate exists. VCC proves the numbers that produced the certificate are correct, according to a specific methodology, signed by independent parties. VCC can feed registries, but it isn't one.
Private: your raw operational data. It never leaves the VCC Gateway running inside your own infrastructure.
Public: a cryptographic fingerprint of the record, the consensus result, the auditor attestation, and the methodology version used. Anyone can verify the chain of trust.
Scoped: regulators and auditors you approve can request access to underlying data through VCC Launchpad, with your explicit consent.
ZK is excellent when the computation is well-defined and the prover and verifier agree on the circuit. For sustainability data, the harder problem is the rulebook itself, whose methodology, whose version, whose parameters. VCC solves that governance layer first. ZK may be used under the hood for specific proofs, but it isn't the whole answer.
Independent organizations, selected per solution group. A private consortium (for example, a Big-4 audit firm and two energy companies) can run a closed network for their sector. A public network can run the same protocol open to any operator. The network topology is a choice, the protocol is the same.
Per attestation, automatically. When an enterprise pays a verification fee, a share goes to the accredited auditor configured for that solution group. Payments settle on-chain after each consensus round. No invoices, no billing cycles.
Energy Web has been building production-grade decentralized infrastructure for energy and climate since 2017, with a network of enterprise partners, standards bodies, and regulators already in place. VCC builds on that footprint, and on the operational lessons from running live infrastructure used by Shell, Accenture, and others.
Define a rulebook. Compose a verification flow. Publish it. Operator nodes run it. Actors subscribe. The Launchpad wires it all together, no ops team required.
Standards bodies define the rulebook in a visual editor: formulas, data sources, quality thresholds. Publish in one click.
Compose verification flows by dragging ingest, method, and verify blocks. Reference any published methodology by version.
Solutions register on Energy Web, then push automatically to elected operator nodes. Runtime attestation out of the box.
Actors discover solutions in the Launchpad, download a signed Gateway, and mint API keys to start submitting or querying.