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Verifiable, not verified

A record anyone can check for themselves is not the same as one an accredited body has audited. Both are useful; they are not interchangeable.

Verifiable means the evidence to check a claim travels with it: the inputs, the factors, the method, and a way to confirm the record has not changed. Anyone can re-run it and reach the same answer.

Verified means a qualified third party has examined it and issued an opinion. That is an accreditation process with a defined scope, and it is what auditors and many regulations require.

Making a figure verifiable makes verification cheaper and faster, because the verifier is checking a reproducible trail rather than reconstructing one. It does not replace verification, and describing self-declared data as verified is a claim about who checked it — which is itself checkable.