Credential Payments

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Credential Payments brings a significant evolution to the Verifiable Credentials landscape, allowing verifiers to directly pay issuers to unlock Credential Status information. Underneath the hood, we've engineered a robust and secure payment flow that streamlines the end-to-end payment process, with accuracy, speed, and cryptographic integrity.

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Understanding Credential Payments

Before diving into Credential Payments, developers may want to learn how the Payment gating and Access Control condition logic works.

Charge for Status List

With Credential Payments, Issuers are able to create payment-gated Status Lists in order to charge for the verification of Credential Status information.

Issue Credential with Encrypted Status List

Once an encrypted Status List has been created, it is time to issue a Credential referencing this Status List within the Credential body.

Verifier pays Issuer

Understand how a Verifier can pay an Issuer and how the Verifier receives access to the Status List.

Alternatives

Below are a list of alternatives for using Credential Payments.

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