The old verification model wasn't wrong — it was the foundation. What you're seeing now is the upgrade: the same engine, with a public face. The diner doesn't need the pantry inventory. They need the meal on the plate.
This page shows the meal. The Sovereign Edition holds the pantry. Both are true. The discipline is keeping them separate.
Five to six months ago, recycling verification was the Line — scattered claims, paper certificates, no shared metric, no price signal. We rebuilt it from the ground up into a layered architecture with a single public score.
This page tells that story without exposing the internal numbers, weightings, or per-tonne maths. Those live in the operator's edition. What you see here is true; what you don't see here is also true — and stays sovereign by design.
The first version of this verification was built around three honest insights:
That foundation is unchanged. What's been added is the upgrade — the price signal, the doctrine, the processor choice, and the voice.
Each of these has its own sealed document. This page is the index, not the recipe.