✅Issue Credentials and Presentations

Learn how to issue and manage Verifiable Credentials and Presentations.

Verifiable Credentials are a tamper-evident data format for asserting a set of claims about a subject. You can issue and verify Verifiable Credentials and Presentations without building complex integrations, using our simple Credential Service APIs.

📚 Learn about Verifiable Credentials and Presentations

If you want to learn more about what Verifiable Credentials and Presentations are, please go over to our learning site here.

Get started

Make sure you've set up your account with Credential Service, then you can start to:

Issue Credentials

Issue W3C conformant Verifiable Credentials easily over REST API.

Verify Credentials

Verify whether Credentials are valid, have been tampered or have expired.

Verify Presentation

Verify whether a combination of Credentials are valid, have been tampered or have expired.

Supported Credential types

Credential Service supports two major digital Credential types and uses our Veramo SDK Plugin under the hood. Below you can learn about these Credential formats:

JSON (JWT)

JSON Web Token (JWT) Credentials are a simple way to transmit Trusted Data as a JSON object.

JSON-LD

JSON-LD (Linked Data) Credentials are a richer data format, allowing applications to follow embedded links to other pieces of Linked Data across the web.

Alternatives

Below are a list of alternatives for using Credentials with cheqd support. Each offers a different set of protocols and underlying technical capabilities.

Veramo

The Veramo SDK Plugin is an extension of the Veramo SDK, a JavaScript framework for Trusted Data, adding support for cheqd functionality.

Credo

Credo is an SDK which supports ZKCreds (AnonCreds) and regular Verifiable Credentials natively with cheqd support.

Walt.id SSI Kit

Walt.id SSI Kit is an SDK that supports the European Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) standards for identity, with full cheqd support.