TenzaOne takes a project developer from "I have a site" to "I have verified carbon credits" — with AI agents closing the readiness gap at each step. The first six steps are live today (some partial, one roadmap). Verra submission and on-chain anchoring are the next sprint.
Standard WordPress account + optional PeepSo profile. No invitation gating — anyone with a project idea can start. Your account anchors every assessment, commit, and cooperative membership you'll accumulate below.
Upload your feasibility / design docs to the 10-agent VCS assessment (Librarian · Project Details · Methodology · GHG Extract · GHG Calc · Monitoring · Safeguards · Auditor · Doc Health · Quick Assessment). One page. ~2–3 minutes end-to-end for a well-documented project.
tenza_project CPT with 40+ structured meta fields — queryable, exportable, API-readyAssessments are iterative. Upload new PDDs, monitoring data, calibration certs — re-run in one click. Prior scores are archived (_tenza_vcs_assessment_history); the best version always wins. Tier 0 → Tier 2+ as evidence matures.
The 11th agent. Reads your full assessment, your current phase, your score — and tells you concretely what to fix and how to fix it. Outputs summary + blockers + gap-fills + next-actions + integrity flags. Knows VCS v5.0 (Dec 2025), the $3,750 registration fee, the dMRV pilot, AMS-II.C CCP status.
The PDD Generation tab in the Project Re-Assessment app renders a complete VCS Project Design Document from your live assessment data. Print-to-PDF works today. When you click Commit ▾ Ed. 0 Assessment in the project's admin bar, we take a PDF snapshot, hash it, and anchor it as a Wallet Cert.
Small projects can't afford Verra solo. TenzaOne matches you to peers on methodology + project type + country + scale + readiness proximity. The Cooperative Fit card on your project shows your top 3 candidate peers. Once admin-accepted, a PoA (Programme of Activity) path shares validation + MRV costs across the cohort.
Verra Phase 4–8 (registration, annual MRV, VVB verification, VCU issuance, retirement). Today: diagrammatic. Roadmap: Registry Submission + Verification Submission + Performance Checkpoint commits are already wired into the Commit dropdown — they unlock when the CAR pre-flight is clean / monitoring drafter signals ready / evidence chain populates. On-chain anchoring of the hash_payload lands after.
| Step | Data artifact | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Register user | WP user record | database |
| 2 Register + assess | tenza_project post + _tenza_vcs_assessment_data JSON + readiness score | post meta |
| 3 Re-assess | Score history + evidence tier upgrade + commit-ready snapshot | post meta |
| 4 Coach | _tenza_vcs_coaching: summary · blockers · gap fills · next actions · integrity flags | structured JSON |
| 5 PDD + commit | PDD render (HTML + PDF snapshot) + Ed. 0 Wallet Cert hash | PDF + SHA-256 |
| 6 Cooperative | Matched peers + Ed. 3 acceptance cert (on admin accept) | ranked list + cert |
| 7 Verra / MRV | Ed. 1.x / 2.x commits (Registry / Verification / Performance) · issued VCUs (external) | cert + external |
Steps 1–4 · PDD HTML render · Cooperative Matcher v1 · Commit Ed. 0 · 5 post-PDD agents · Developer API v0.1 · Meow MCP bridge
Step 5 PDD commit flow (print-to-PDF works; commit snapshot lands Round 9) · Ed. 1.x / 2.x / 3 commit unlocks gated on agent outputs
Verra submission automation · Streamr DePIN subscription · on-chain hash_payload anchoring · cohort governance / messaging · self-serve API keys
The full Verra VCS certification journey — and where TenzaONE's AI, IoT, DePIN and cooperative structure cut cost and amplify value at every stage.
After the certification journey above, TenzaOne extends project data into commercial products:
Beyond the core carbon credit stack, TenzaONE's DePIN + AI architecture extends to adjacent environmental certificate markets. Cards below are DRAFT — pricing is indicative; methodology pipeline active.
Certification is only half the story. A verified VCU still has to find a buyer, change hands — often several times — and ultimately be retired to back a specific corporate claim. This panel walks the post-issuance pipeline and shows where TenzaOne sits as a forwards-orchestrator and marketplace middleman translating futures contracts into either cash settlement or physical delivery of credits.
TenzaOne writes the forward contract between host buyer and project developer. Settlement at maturity: cash (if price moved against delivery) or physical delivery of credits (if buyer wants the credits for compliance / claim).
Buyer's choice at settlement. Contract structure locks volume + tier; price indexed or fixed-forward.
Facilitates primary-market listing, integrates with CBL for secondary liquidity, and brokers OTC tickets. Facilitation fee 1–2.5% (per Rulebook v1.1 — not the full 10% myth).
Ticket size + tier drive the exact fee. Repeat-developer discount available.
DePIN/AI-anchored data + SHA-256 blockchain anchor = retirement certificate carries an auditable chain back through the full DePIN stack (sensors → BMS → AI → DePIN → blockchain).
Buyers use this trail for VCMI Claim-Code integrity + Scope 3 disclosure.
| Contract | Venue | Lot | Key date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CBL GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Dec 2027 delivery | Most-traded VCM futures |
| CBL N-GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Dec 2029 delivery | Nature-based only |
| CBL C-GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Thin liquidity | CORSIA-aligned aviation |
| CBL SD-GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Vintage roll: July 1 | SDG-tagged co-benefit credits |
| Article 6 / ICM | — | — | 2026 target | No liquid futures yet |
India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) is phased-live but not yet trading. Legally-binding targets are notified for 7 of 9 sectors (Oct 2025 + Jan 2026), covering ~740 entities and ~700 Mt CO₂e — roughly 16% of India's emissions. First trading session is expected mid-2026. Three-body governance: MoEFCC notifies targets, BEE administers + issues + operates the registry, CERC regulates trading on the power exchanges.
No official bridge exists. Policy signals discourage double-issuance; no explicit prohibition text found. TenzaOne recommendation: pick one track per project until BEE gazettes formal guidance.
Not without Article 6 corresponding adjustment. CCCs are domestic by design. Foreign buyers aligning with SBTi / CBAM need CA-tagged credits, which CCTS doesn't provide by default.
Yes — with friction. India did not ban international voluntary issuance (despite Aug 2022 pressure). BEE launched a parallel voluntary offset mechanism in March 2025 (v1, 8 methodologies). Selective export relaxations ongoing.
Gradual migration in flight. Surplus ESCerts likely convertible to CCCs at a to-be-gazetted ratio. PAT delivered poorly (only 1.5M of 3.8M ESCerts Cycle I traded) — CCTS scepticism is shaped by that experience.
Whether a credit can be counted, claimed, or sold across borders depends on two overlays sitting on top of the issuance process: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (the inter-country accounting rules) and the integrity labels that corporate buyers now demand (ICVCM CCP, VCMI Claims Code, SBTi alignment). Both have shifted materially in 2024–2025 and directly shape what credits are worth to serious buyers.
Executed August 2025. Only executed bilateral between India and any partner. Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) framework; ITMOs flow with corresponding adjustment.
India is in active negotiation with Singapore, Sweden, South Korea, UAE, and the EU. No executed deals with those parties as of April 2026.
Green hydrogen · offshore wind · SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) · CCUS · grid-scale storage · low-carbon cement · electric mobility · biochar · waste-to-energy · efficient cookstoves · advanced biofuels · REDD+ · blue carbon.
~30+ methodologies approved to date. Cookstoves + jurisdictional REDD+ approved in 2025.
ACM0002 paradox: the renewable-energy methodology was rejected Aug 2024 — yet ACM0002 credits remain the most-retired credit type six months later. Supply glut + legacy inventory trumps the new label short-term.
Verra is scrapping AMS-II.G, replacing VMR0006/VMR0011 with new M0174, and has a new energy-storage methodology in VVB assessment.
The August 2025 update enforces CCP-label or Article 6.4 credits for any VCMI claim — from January 1, 2026. This is the single biggest buyer-side shift of the past year.
Practical impact: Silver / Gold / Platinum tiers of VCMI claims all need CCP-or-6.4 supply now. Non-CCP credits don't disappear from the market, but corporates using VCMI's framework can't count them.
Post July 2024 Board statement, SBTi permits offsets under specific Scope 3 conditions (previously near-total prohibition in near-term targets). Still cautious: removals preferred over avoidance; durability + vintage scrutiny tight.
Tech premium implication: SBTi-aligned buyers push price signal toward durable removals (biochar, DAC, mineralisation) — not IoT/DePIN verification per se.