The Digital Carbon Foundation
About
The Digital Carbon Foundation (DCF), was established to act as a long-term steward of digital carbon infrastructure. DCF is structured as a nonprofit to ensure that protocol governance, disclosure standards, and lifecycle controls are not influenced by transaction volume, pricing outcomes, token demand, network incentives, ledger economics, or market volatility. The DCF operates as a protocol sponsor rather than as a registry, verifier, marketplace, project developer, or custodian. Registries issue and record credits. Verifiers audit data. Developers originate projects. Market venues and market makers facilitate price discovery and liquidity. Public ledger networks provide transaction execution and state finality. The DCF defines the digital lifecycle rules that allow these actors to interact within a coherent, auditable, and regulator-resilient framework. The DCF’s authority as a protocol sponsor derives from contractual designation by participating in project developers and counterparties who elect to operate under the DCC Protocol. The DCF does not claim statutory or governmental authority and does not replace or supersede existing registries, verifiers, regulators, banks, blockchain governance bodies, public-ledger governing councils, or market-making firms.