Mission and source concepts
InnovateCredits Cooperative is authored and championed by The InnovateCredits Founders Council — a group of practitioners, policy architects, and cooperative-economy advocates. No individual signatories are named on published materials.
Pre-staging the rails Treasury will eventually adopt
The verified-yield economy — where carbon supply, data contributions, and domestic industrial output are recognized as bankable, insured, and dividend-generating assets — is not a future state. It is infrastructure waiting for an institutional home.
InnovateCredits Cooperative provides that home. A D.C.-chartered multi-stakeholder cooperative, built on the legal foundations of Subchapter T and the D.C. Limited Cooperative Association statute, with the governance architecture to accommodate nine patron classes, institutional investor capital, and a Data Trust with separately constituted fiduciary oversight.
The Coop-IC is the cooperative’s universal accounting unit — issued today, backed by audited yield, parametric-insured at issuance, and pre-staged for 1:1 par convertibility to Treasury IC when the federal Innovation Credit program is established. The cooperative does not require federal action to operate. Federal action is the upside.
The architecture is published. The rails are being built. Founding patron applications are open.
Architecture inputs — publicly attributed
The cooperative’s architecture synthesizes multiple existing frameworks. Specific partner relationships are redacted at public launch; the source concepts are attributed.
AIE Innovation Credit Framework
Six policy-framework documents covering Innovation Credit market design (Doc 3), supply-chain and consumer rewards (Doc 4), sovereign data asset architecture (Doc 5), and an 18-month implementation roadmap (Doc 6). The cooperative operationalizes this framework under a D.C. cooperative charter.
AIE Framework — 6 docs, 93 concepts, 11 partners, 5 stakeholdersProject Constellation — HAE Valuation Framework
The Independent Valuation Standard (IVS) framework applying IAS 38-compliant methodology to intangible data assets. Developed with a 26-year carbon-supply founding partner. Enables Coop-IC backing assets to achieve Hard Asset Equivalent (HAE) classification — ratable and bankable.
Project Constellation IVS — data-asset valuation methodologyCooperative Law — D.C. Title 29
D.C. Code Title 29 Chapters 9 (General Cooperative Association) and 10 (Limited Cooperative Association) provide the statutory foundation. The hybrid GCA + LCA structure is purpose-built for multi-class capital governance while maintaining cooperative-purity for Treasury and political reception.
D.C. Code Title 29 Ch. 9 + Ch. 10 | IRC Subchapter T §§ 1381–1388Multiple Founding-Member IP Contributions
Patented data-rights, geolocation, and attribution IP is licensed into the Data Trust by founding members — not transferred. The trust holds a cooperative license; IP contributors retain underlying rights while enabling cooperative-level HAE valuation.
Founding-member IP — licensed contribution to Data TrustCooperative Payment Rail — Licensed Infrastructure
Core payment-cloud infrastructure contributed by payments-platform founding members and licensed to the cooperative under an executed agreement (December 15, 2025). Underlies the Carbon Card program and other cooperative payment programs.
Carbon Card SPV Phase II Prospectus — cooperative payment rail licensingWhat the Founders Council commits to
The cooperative charters when Wave 1 anchors sign.
Founding patron applications are open across all 9 classes.