The solution: a verifiable Republic
The Minister's five needs, Verana's three pillars, and the ecosystems Verandia joins or builds.
The solution: a verifiable Republic
“Open source wallets exist - for citizens and for organizations. Verana is public trust infrastructure. We have everything we need to give every citizen a verifiable ID card, every company a verifiable Business ID, and every service a way to check both - without building a single silo.”
What the Minister needs
To make the Republic verifiable end to end, the Minister's list is short:
- Verifiable institutions→ The journey · ECS-Organization
The Republic itself must be provable before it can vouch for anyone - and its Business Registry should be the one issuing Business IDs.
- A Citizen ID citizens actually hold→ The journey · Verandia Citizen ID
The national ID card as a verifiable credential in any compatible wallet - eIDAS 2 compatible.
- Verifiable Business IDs→ The journey · Business ID
Companies prove who they are with a credential issued by the register, not a PDF extract.
- Proof of legal representation→ The journey · Legal Representative
A personal credential binding a person to the company they may act for - revocable the day it ends.
- Passwordless, fail-closed authentication→ The journey · Q1 + Q2/Q3
Public entities and companies verify citizens - and only authorized verifiers ever see the data.
All of this needs wallets to hold and check the proofs (they exist, open source, for people and for organizations) and one neutral, public place where every proof anchors. That place is Verana.
Let's build on Verana
Verana is a public infrastructure that generalizes the use of verifiable credentials, and provides out of the box:
Build ecosystems that issue and verify any credential, with your own schemas, governance framework, participants, and business model, or join an existing one.
Identify any service and the organization or person that controls it, and verify it before you connect. Verify first. Then connect.
Discover services and ecosystems by the credentials they hold, ranked by trust, for people, search engines, and AI agents.
Verana is public, decentralized infrastructure. Any ecosystem can self-create. A state uses the same open infrastructure as everyone else - no gatekeeper, and nothing to operate alone.
The ecosystem Verandia wants to join
For Business IDs, Verandia makes a deliberate choice: join the shared ecosystem rather than build a national silo.
The shared identity-card trust registry: certified Organization credentials, recognized by every Verana-aware wallet and service. Verandia's National Business Registry becomes an accredited ECS-Organization issuer - and because the register IS the source of truth, KYB becomes a lookup, not paperwork.
Why join, not build: Verandia could run Business IDs in a custom ecosystem - but joining the shared ECS ecosystem means a Verandian company's credential is recognized everywhere, not just in Verandia. Interop wins.
The ecosystems Verandia wants to build
Two credentials only the Republic can govern - so the Republic governs them, with two purpose-built ecosystems:
One schema: the Verandia Citizen ID (names, birth date, personal identifier, portrait). Issuance governed - only the Civil Registry issues. Verification governed too: a service must register as a relying party before any wallet will share the ID. That is the eIDAS 2 relying-party rule, made structural.
Why it matters: identity fraud dies when the ID is cryptographic, and over-collection dies when verifiers need permission to ask.
One schema: the Legal Representative credential (company, registry id, person, role, powers, validity). Issuance governed - only the Business Registry issues, after the applicant identifies with their Citizen ID. Verification open: checking who represents a company is the register's public function.
Why it matters: the notarized-paper-and-fax problem becomes a scan - and a representative who leaves is revoked the same day.