Verifiable Process Infrastructure: A Formal Framework for Cryptographically Provable Business Processes

This paper introduces Verifiable Process Infrastructure (VPI), a new category of digital infrastructure that sits at the intersection of three established fields: cryptographic provenance and attestation, verifiable credentials and digital identity, and business process management. We provide a formal definition grounded in four axioms derived from Holosynthics, a composition theory for signed digital entities (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19852341). Three theorems establish soundness, necessity, and sufficiency. Eleven regulatory regimes — including SOX, DORA, SEC 17a-4, MiFID II, GDPR, and BCBS 239 — are shown to require VPI properties that no existing tool provides. The GI Engine is presented as a reference implementation. Market analysis estimates a $10–30B addressable market by 2030. This document was cryptographically signed by the system it describes.