FAQ

What does Arivu mean?

Arivu is a word from the Tamil language which means ‘the methodical acquisition of knowledge’.  

A fitting description at the heart of how we add value to customers!

What is Arivu’s mission?

Arivu’s mission is to supply an EUDR Digital Passport for every shipment of EU Deforestation Regulation commodity shipment into Europe.

With our capabilities, we will give every company on earth a trusted way to own, prove and share their sustainability transition.

What are the EU Deforestation Regulations?

The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) aims to minimize the EU’s impact on global deforestation. The regulation comes into effect in 2024 applies to EU-based companies who import cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood.
 
EUDR requires companies to conduct comprehensive due diligence of the provenance of the product, prove with corroborative evidence and conduct ongoing monitoring to ensure continued compliance.

What is an EUDR Digital Passport™?

Arivu’s EUDR Digital Passportis a digital twin of all the facts and evidence you need to assemble and report under these regulations. 

We already do KYC and supplier due diligence.  How can Arivu help?

Your due diligence requirements under EUDR are growing.  Arivu helps you easily address the new challenges posed by this regulation.

Our EUDR Digital Passport™ holds the key to your compliance.

 
1. The provenance of Product:
Use Arivu to centralise the collection of customer, supplier and product due diligence and consolidate information from multiple intermediaries in the supply chain to prove the provenance of your products.
 
2. Deforestation risk assessments: 
Satellite analysis independently corroborates deforestation analysis.  Arivu’s actionable risk alerts allow you take proactive actions to manage risks.
 
3. Single source of complience data and reporting:
Arivu records user interactions, data changes onto tamper-proof blockchains.  Our audit reports automate compliance audits giving you verified and easily shared compliance proofs.

Which blockchains does Arivu use?

Arivu can write to multiple blockchains and we currently write to Cardano, Concordium and Etherium.  We write larger blocks of data, evidence and images to large file storage blockchain named Arweave.

Watch a demo video here

Why is Arivu using blockchain?

 Arivu is using blockchain to create immutable data records and to allow frictionless access to records for audit and assurance.  Arivu is using blockchain to fossilise data and to capture audit and compliance proofs.

What is the difference between Arivu Services and Arivu Labs?

Arivu Labs is home to our technology tools and development team.  Arivu Labs is pioneering protocol-agnostic technology to address key challenges in the transition from Web 2 to Web 3.  We have developed tools to strengthen data security and privacy, enabling secure sharing of important information and fostering trusted collaboration.

 

 

Arivu Services is home to our customer propositions where our technology comes to life.  Arivu Services’ most significant use case is ESG and sustainability reporting and it is this area where most of our customer pilots are focused.

In which geographies does Arivu operate?

Although we are registered in the United Kingdom, Arivu serves customers from around the world.

What industry sectors does Arivu cover?

Our technology tools and our service offerings are sector-agnostic and can be applied to use cases across the board.

To which Code of Conduct does Arivu align?

Arivu operates to the highest governance and ethical standards, and aligns with the Global Digital Finance Code of Conduct.

What is Arivu's legal status?

Arivu Digital Limited is a company registered in England under company number 13375602. 

How can I invest or participate in Arivu as an investor?

To register your interest to invest or to speak to one of the Arivu team, please contact us at contact@arivu.io

What is ESG?

ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance.  ESG disclosures inform interested parties as to the ethics and values of the organisation, and the medium to long-term sustainability of the business model.

What is the difference between Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions?

Scope 1: Emissions from scope 1 are direct emissions. This means that they directly come from your organization’s owned- or controlled source, such as; company vehicle emissions.

 

Scope 2: Emissions in scope 2 cover the indirect emissions from purchased sources, such as your organization’s consumed electricity or cooling. 

 

Scope 3: Emissions from scope 3 include all the other indirect emissions within your entire value chain, this includes the upstream supply chain (suppliers), as well as downstream GHG emissions e.g. occurring with customers.

How can Arivu support Scope 3 sustainability reporting?

Evidence Builder has been designed to allow companies to reach out to suppliers and other external companies and link them together in extended Reporting Chains.  Each company invited to a Reporting Chain owns and controls the data and evidence they submit and they retain full control over how that information is shared.

What sustainability reporting frameworks does Arivu support? 

As at July 2022, Arivu supports Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR), the GHG Protocol, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD) in addition to two proprietary, use-case specific reporting frameworks.

What is greenwashing?

Greenwashing is the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information to make a company or product appear environmentally friendly, without meaningfully reducing its environmental impact.

Can Arivu be used for other use cases beyond ESG?

Yes.  Arivu’s data utility tools can be applied to many use cases and scenarios.

 

What is a reporting chain?  How many parties can I add to a reporting chain?

A reporting chain is a group of parties (people or companies) required to report data and evidence as part of a reporting framework.  Customers create reporting chains for anything from track-and-trace product provenance, extended supply chain risk monitoring, sustainability reporting, etc.

What do you mean by data fossilisation?

Fossilising data is the process of storing evidence in a transaction on a blockchain.

 

Once that evidence is written to the chain, it is immutable and cannot be altered or removed.  The data is fossilised and permanent.

How can I create my own framework? 

Creating a reporting framework in Arivu is fast and easy.  You can either send us an industry standard framework you would like us to compose, or we can help you build a custom framework for internal purposes which would be proprietary to you.

What is a sub-framework?

Regulatory reporting frameworks require companies to report calculations and metrics based on data sets which they need to receive from suppliers.  In this example, the suppliers need to submit data and evidence which the reporting company then compiles to report a calculation or a metric.

 

The reporting company reports against a framework while the sub-framework will be completed by suppliers.

 

In Arivu, the reporting framework used may have many sub-frameworks tailored to retrieve the required data and evidence from groups of external companies.

What is the Change of State Oracle (CoSO)?

The Change of State Oracle (CoSO) is a powerful tool used to generate deterministic smart contract triggers derived from state changes in complex on- and off-chain data sources.

What is the difference between CoSO and Chainlink?

Both CoSO and Chainlink operate as Metadata Oracles, allowing you to query off-data sources from a Smart Contract on the chain.

CoSO allows you to combine N number of data sources into single consolidated dataset and execute a complex set of queries against this data, and return a result to the chain.

This allows you to modify the executing logic of an on-chain smart contract by changing an off-chain CoSO query without the need of a software developer.

CoSO also allows you to compare N number of decentralised data sources, each from different suppliers to so you don’t need to trust a single data source.

CoSO queries can be executed from any API source, or manually through the Query Builder interface which can then invoke on-chain smart contracts, allowing for limitless integration opportunities with other software vendors.

Imagine one day executing a smart contract via an Alexa, by integrating Alexa with CoSO.

What is a sub-framework?

Regulatory reporting frameworks require companies to report calculations and metrics based on data sets which they need to receive from suppliers.  In this example, the suppliers need to submit data and evidence which the reporting company then compiles to report a calculation or a metric.

 

The reporting company reports against a framework while the sub-framework will be completed by suppliers.

 

In Arivu, the reporting framework used may have many sub-frameworks tailored to retrieve the required data and evidence from groups of external companies.

What is Block Access Protocol (BAP)?

Corporate customers need privacy preservation when working on permissionless public blockchains.  Arivu enhances trust by empowering data owners with controlled permissioning to sensitive data.

Block Access Protocol (BAP) is a privacy-protecting, encryption / decryption nodal network allowing users to manage sharing and access revocation to sensitive data on public blockchains.

How can I share the data I hold in Arivu?

Data in Arivu is split into Reporting Chains, Links and Topics.
 

 

At the moment we allow the sharing of data on a Link level, this may change to the Topic level depending on feedback from usage.

What do you mean by Layer 1.5?

Layer 1 is the blockchain and Layer 2 is off-chain (e.g. based in a cloud environment or within an enterprise, etc.).

 

Layer 1.5 is a hybrid smart contract where a smart contract can execute, calling a CoSO query which can be modified by the owner.

 

The CoSO query can be updated off-chain using the Arivu GUI.  This allows for off-chain execution logic modification without changing the on-chain smart contract code.

How does Arivu work in cloud and blockchain?

Customers of Arivu can use our data storage policies which allow for:

  • Full off-chain storage in Azure
  • Hybrid of on-chain and off-chain
  • Hybrid of multiple blockchains depending on payload sizes
  • Full on-chain storage

Many companies want to dip their toe into blockchain, they are not looking for full emersion.  Arivu allows for slow or rapid transition.

How is Arivu chain-agnostic?

Arivu nodes are hosted off-chain in Azure.  The Node’s interactions with a chain are done through API’s and other Oracle technology.  

 

Arivu cannot dictate a company’s policy or decision-making process, so we will support the chains our customers require.

Does Arivu work with any blockchain?

Yes Arivu is blockchain agnostic.  However, we cannot guarantee full functionality on all blockchains.

Does Arivu have to work on blockchain?

No.  Arivu products are cloud-native and operate in Microsoft Azure.  Arivu functionality can execute off-chain and trigger off-chain events including alerts, workflows, etc.

What is a hybrid smart contract?

A hybrid smart contract is a smart contract in which the execution logic can be modified off-chain.

How does Arivu integrate with other platforms?

Arivu is API driven both for data inputs and data outputs.

What is a hybrid smart contract?

A hybrid smart contract is a smart contract in which the execution logic can be modified off-chain.

What is a Zero Trust Vault?

Zero Trust Vault protects sensitive data without centralized control.  The Zero Trust Vault issues an encryption API-key unique to each user.   User data is encrypted using their unique key.  Zero Trust Vault does not retain records of API keys issued.

How secure is our data in Arivu? 

Data security is one of Arivu’s top priorities.  All data and files submitted to Arivu are encrypted at rest.

Who is a Preparer?

Preparer is the person within an organisation responsible for the collation and analysis of data, and summarising information into an appropriate structure and style ready for disclosure.

Who is a Controller?

The Controller is accountable on behalf of the organisation for:

  • review and approval of planned disclosures;
  • oversight of permissioned sharing of data along its Reporting Chain; and
  • in coordination with the Board and Auditor, the external publishing of disclosures.

What is Change of State Language (CoSL)?

JSON based syntax, for writing queries, which the change engine can execute. 
 
Users can manually author a CoSL query through the GUI but will also be able to submit their own CoSL (Change of State Language) query for execution through an API.
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