The methodology behind Verra’s first fully digital project
We digitized VM0033, the mangrove-restoration methodology that carried the first fully digital project into Verra validation.
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When Verra announced its digital transformation with Hedera in May 2025, the pilot was ALLCOT’s blue-carbon mangrove restoration project in Senegal, the first carbon project developed under a fully digital methodology to enter validation. That methodology was VM0033 (tidal wetland and seagrass restoration), roughly 8,000 lines of code expanding to 30,000 with 40-year forecast logic. CarbonMarketsHQ authored the digitization. It proved that a methodology this complex could run as software, and that projects once too small to justify the cost could suddenly be viable.