From Accident-Then-Regulation to Learn-Before-Accident
Throughout history, society has typically responded to accidents with regulation—after harm has already occurred. Aviation safety rules followed crashes; financial regulations followed market failures. This reactive pattern has been the norm.
Today, we have something different: access to historical records and the ability to observe how systems behave under various conditions. This creates an opportunity to verify and learn before catastrophic failures, rather than after.
The goal is to shift toward a culture where verification and learning happen proactively—where evidence is examined and lessons drawn before incidents escalate.
For that purpose, we would like to help place a precedent—quietly, but deliberately.
What We Do
- Develop and maintain open specifications for verifiable audit evidence
- Publish domain profiles, starting with VeritasChain Protocol (VCP) for financial trading audit trails
- Provide reference implementations and verification tooling to support adoption
- Promote a shared learning culture through verifiable, independently checkable evidence formats
What We Do Not Do
- We do not endorse any company, product, or investment strategy
- We do not request regulatory approval or policy action
- We do not claim that audit trails alone prevent accidents
- We do not replace existing supervisory or audit responsibilities
VSO, VCP, and VAP
Principles
- Neutrality
- Transparency
- Verifiability over trust
- Interoperability
- Future-proof security
Certification scheme and current availability
VC-Certified documents a scheme for technical conformance assessment. No independent Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) is currently registered. The only registered CAB is VeritasChain Co., Ltd., which operates VSO and is not independent of the scheme owner.
VSO maintains the specifications and scheme rules; it does not review submissions or issue certifications. The former submission procedure is not in effect, and the scheme documents do not describe an available certification service.
We believe verifiable evidence can accelerate learning and accountability in high-risk AI systems. VeritasChain Protocol (VCP) is only a beginning.
Contact
standards@veritaschain.org (Standards inquiries)
info@veritaschain.org (General inquiries)