#verifiable-credentials — Public Fediverse posts

W3C is pleased to join the GDC Council in co-organizing the Global Digital Collaboration Conference 2026! This 2nd edition brings together leaders in #DigitalWallets, #VerifiableCredentials, standards, #security and regulation to advance digital trust infrastructure worldwide.

The invitation-only event is co-hosted by intergovernmental, NGO, and open-source organizations. W3C is shaping the program, with team members on site for in-person networking.
🎫 Register now! https://luma.com/1ey4sf2a

Contours lets you layer an initial, midpoint, and endpoint assessment in one visual, with the same story reflected in the badge metadata.

Blog post: https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/contours-of-practice/

Try the tool: https://contours.dynamicskillset.com

#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #DigitalBadges #VerifiableCredentials #Skills #EdTech

The Verifiable Credentials Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.1.

This specification describes the extensible data model for verifiable credentials, how they can be secured from tampering, and a three-party ecosystem for the exchange of these credentials that is composed of issuers, holders, and verifiers.
#WebStandards #VerifiableCredentials
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-draft-verifiable-credentials-data-model-v2-1/

📆 1 April 2026 - tomorrow!
@p20n will present: "Unlocking Value with Emerging Technologies in Freight Forwarding" at the 2026 Intl Federation of Freight Forwarders Assoc meeting in Geneva 🇨🇭

He will present W3C's Verifiable Credentials family of specification, including the upcoming work of the newly rechartered Working Group in domains related to this event (such as the vocabularies for Digital Product Passports and for Business Wallets).
#VerifiableCredentials
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/unlocking-value-with-emerging-technologies-in-freight-forwarding/

The FIDO Alliance has launched a new Digital Credentials Initiative, expanding on its mission to help create a future where #DigitalIdentity wallets and #VerifiableCredentials are as seamless, trusted, and interoperable as #passkeys are becoming.
#security #privacy #usability
https://blog.talkingidentity.com/2025/12/for-digital-credentials-the-fido-alliance-has-entered-the-chat.html

What does true #interoperability look like in Europe's evolving #DigitalIdentity ecosystem? 🤔

Watch this inspirational #NGISargasso public webinar, co-organised with @ngitrustchain, as part of our OnCampus Program activities for our #NGISargassoInnovators, with leading experts exploring the technical, legal & real-world dimensions of digital identity in Europe.

📺 Play the full session here: https://youtu.be/DqBtOrfWuPA?si=fEQHI2u9DaBNdAoY

#EUDI #OpenID #VerifiableCredentials #NGI #InternetOfHumans

@EC_NGI @ngi

Passkeys and Verifiable Digital Credentials (VDCs) are not competing technologies. They’re complementary tools that, together, help form a stronger, privacy-first digital identity ecosystem. To help clarify this, the FIDO Alliance Government Deployment Working Group has published a white paper on "Passkeys and Verifiable Digital Credentials: A Harmonized Path to Secure Digital Identity", which lays out how organizations can start adopting these technologies today.
By combining VDCs and passkeys in a way that lets them do what they do best (VDCs = verifiable, selective disclosure of identity attributes to prove who you are; passkeys = seamless, phishing-resistant authentication for everyday logins), they enable a secure, interoperable model that balances trust, convenience, and privacy across use cases from onboarding to high-risk transactions.
Check out the excellent work of the many contributors, and join the conversation at this years Authenticate conference
https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys-and-verifiable-digital-credentials-a-harmonized-path-to-secure-digital-identity/
#passkeys #VDCs #VerifiableCredentials #UsePasskeys #Authenticate2025 #privacy

Exciting news from #NGISargasso! ✨

🧑‍🤝‍🧑📲 We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with our #NGISargassoInnovator Simeon, a pioneering project empowering older adults with secure #DigitalCredentials.

Together, we are working to bridge the digital divide by creating privacy-preserving, user-friendly #DigitalIdentity solutions tailored to the needs of seniors to ensure that no one is left behind in the digital age.

Learn more about it 👉 https://ngisargasso.eu/2025/08/15/empowering-digital-inclusion-ngi-sargasso-partners-with-simeon/

#VerifiableCredentials

A conversation about money and the #openweb

https://hamishcampbell.com/a-conversation-about-money-and-the-openweb/

Here's my slides from my session at #Identiverse 2025: Passkeys and Verifiable Digital Credentials: Friends or Foes?

https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/preso-idv25/

#passkeys #vdcs #vc #verifiablecredentials #digitalcredentials

Whoops I gave some money to ISO

#mdl #mdoc #verifiablecredentials

@SwiftOnSecurity I can't retoot it hard enough. Another feather in the imaginary cap of #VerifiableCredentials.

What creates the spark behind an illustration? There’s nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator.

This illustration was created for a series of credentialing workshops with Badge guru Doug Belshaw for the N-TUTORR project.

#OpenRecognition #DigitalBadges #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials

> [Verifiable Credentials] allow for selective disclosure of information. For example, instead of handing over your entire driver’s license at a bar (which has a picture of you, your address, etc.), you can selectively disclose that you are of drinking age.

https://medium.com/@dfinity/introducing-verifiable-credentials-to-the-internet-computer-898f5538dcfb

#crypto #internetComputer #verifiableCredentials #icp #identity #auth #authentication #cryptography #blockchain #passkeys #passkey #openChat #decideAI #proofOfHumanity #web3 #defi #dapp

Finally a simple tutorial on #VerifiableCredentials

https://medium.com/@skounis/how-to-create-a-did-web-and-issue-and-verify-w3c-verifiable-credentials-bcd5215e378d

My colleague Gertjan De Mulder is presenting the work on using #VerifiableCredentials in #Solid pods with #LinkedDataNotifications at the SDS Workshop! In this work, the proof of a credential is stored in Solid pods to allow proving if a patient has a medical subscription to buy certain medication or proof that a job applicant has a diploma or skills for the job they are applying to.

#eswc2024 @eswc_conf @pietercolpaert

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵, Leonard Rosenthol, of Adobe, introduced the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

The C2PA work leverages W3C standards and aims to develop technical specs for widespread content provenance and authenticity, allowing users to trace media origins. #VerifiableCredentials, #WebAnnotations,

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tQDTvzjr5CQ

https://youtube.com/shorts/XkTqQYW35ig?si=YhN8NBWwelaFdKR3

The most complex part is an issuer-verifier ecosystem and trust relation

We could unlock a large number of use cases where the issuer and a verifier is the same organization or close partners.
It makes more sense for partners and makes the process more decoupled and interoperable. For the same organization, we could still benefit from VCs stored on the user side in the security and data compliance space.

#ssi #trust #verifiablecredentials

Here's the next one: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2023/12/28/tb872-meta-narrative-for-my-systemic-inquiry/

#VerifiableCredentials #OpenBadges #HigherEducation #SystemsThinking