Verification & Standards — FTDAO
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Verification & Standards

An ESG claim is only as good as how it's verified.

FTDAO doesn't ask you to trust an ESG label. It publishes how every claim is checked, what still depends on manual review, and what a planned cryptographic layer would and would not fix.

Environmental

Every production or emissions claim in the network goes through the same verification pipeline before it's published — documentation review today, with a planned zero-knowledge layer for projects that can't disclose underlying operational data.

Submission

Data plus supporting documentation.

AI agent triage

Cross-checks figures, flags inconsistencies — narrows review, doesn't decide.

Admin decision

A human makes the final call.

What ZK-dMRV would improve

  • Projects can prove a verified claim without disclosing raw operational telemetry
  • Removes the need to hand documents to human reviewers

What it would not fix

  • Whether the underlying sensor or meter data was genuine in the first place
  • Centralization risk if a single prover node controls what gets proven

Governance

FTDAO's governance runs on Snapshot — simple 1-token-1-vote, the same mechanism industry research flags as most exposed to concentrated voting power. That's disclosed directly in the whitepaper, not smoothed over: a small, concentrated group of holders deciding a network vote is a weaker signal than broad participation, and it's worth watching as the holder base grows.

View governance on Snapshot
Status

No project has completed onboarding as of this writing, and the ZK-dMRV layer referenced above is a roadmap item, not a live system. See whitepaper Sections 6.2, 6.4, and 11 for the full disclosure.

Read exactly how verification and governance work.