March 2026: publishing the Veridium Carbon code in the open

March was about openness. A ledger that asks people to trust it with real value should let them read the rules for themselves, so on 3 March the Veridium Carbon code went into a public repository.

Why publish the code

Carbon credits have a trust problem. Buyers want to know a credit is real, that it has not been sold twice and that nobody can quietly change the record afterwards. Publishing the code answers part of that directly. Anyone can see how blocks are made, how supply is issued and how a payment is confirmed. Publishing the rules is the cheapest trust there is.

Explorers and wallets

Alongside the code, the work in March went into the tools people use to see and hold the coin: block explorers that show every block and every payment. I also began planning to bring Veridium into a mobile wallet so holders could send and receive it from a phone.

The same month I moved the Veridium website behind a new network provider for speed and protection, which meant untangling how its security certificates were issued so the site stayed reachable throughout.

What it led to

Open code set the standard for everything that followed. Later in the year the Confrmo Ledger began certifying Veridium carbon credits. In August I set up a Veridium node that Confrmo runs itself, so every certificate is checked against the chain directly. None of that would carry weight on a ledger whose rules were hidden.

It also shaped how I think about trust in every product since. Where a claim can be checked, I would rather show the working than ask anyone to take my word for it.