Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Encoding Trust in the Algorithmic Age
This FAQ section addresses key technical, legal, and ethical questions about the VC-Certified certification program operated by VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO).
Purpose: To proactively address common questions and enhance trust by clarifying what VC-Certified does—and doesn't—guarantee.
A. No, this certification does NOT guarantee financial health or solvency.
VC-Certified certifies only that a system technically complies with the VeritasChain Protocol (VCP) international standard.
Specifically, we verify that the following are mathematically and cryptographically correct:
Important: VSO does NOT guarantee or endorse any company's:
A. No, VSO maintains a strict "Non-Endorsement Policy."
VSO is a neutral international standards organization. Issuing a certification badge indicates only that a system meets transparency standards—it is NOT an endorsement of that company's products or services.
VSO maintains a vendor-neutral stance and aims to improve the health of the entire market ecosystem.
A. No, personal information is protected by the VCP-PRIVACY module.
VCP's design philosophy balances "public truth (Veritas)" with "privacy protection."
What's recorded on blockchain or audit logs are hash values (fingerprints) of data—not the original personal information.
Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is encrypted with unique per-user keys. For GDPR's "Right to be Forgotten," destroying the decryption key makes the data mathematically unrecoverable.
Therefore, it is technically impossible for VSO or third parties to extract customer names or addresses from audit logs.
A. Only "data necessary for verification" is made transparent.
In VCP-compliant systems, transaction hash values and Merkle Roots are anchored to public chains.
This allows users to verify "whether my trades were tampered with" using Explorer tools.
Protected Information: The specific logic of algorithms (intellectual property) and detailed trading information of others are NOT exposed.
VCP provides "verifiable transparency" that sits between "black box (opaque)" and "glass house (fully exposed)."
A. Yes, it provides extremely strong "proof value."
While Silver Tier doesn't require atomic-clock precision (PTPv2), it guarantees "Irreversibility of Fraud."
All events are assigned time-ordered IDs.
Data is anchored to blockchain every 24 hours.
Fraud Types Prevented:
These typical frauds become impossible even for database administrators.
Silver Tier is a powerful tool to resolve trust disputes ("he said, she said") while keeping costs low.
A. No, "sidecar" deployment is possible.
VCP provides adapters (SDKs and bridges) that run alongside existing FIX engines and trading servers (MT4/MT5, etc.) to generate audit logs without modifying the existing infrastructure.
For Retail Brokers & Prop Firms:
We provide vcp-mql-bridge,
which minimizes impact on existing environments while enabling certification.
A. VCP is equipped with "Crypto Agility" and is already prepared.
Currently, we default to the fast Ed25519 signature algorithm, but the specification defines a migration path to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
When quantum computing threats become real, we will seamlessly upgrade to NIST-standard algorithms like Dilithium, ensuring the authenticity of records for the future.
A. Yes, support is built into the protocol.
The VCP-GOV extension module includes fields for storing:
Compliance Support:
This strongly supports compliance with high-risk AI system requirements for transparency and record-keeping.
VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO) supports building trust infrastructure for the algorithmic age.
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"Verify, Don't Trust" — Encoding Trust in the Algorithmic Age