Agent Identity & Trust
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Credentials Data Model
A data model for tamper evident claims that a holder can present and a verifier can check cryptographically, without contacting the issuer.
Gaia-X self descriptions and the EU digital identity wallet both rest on it. It is how an assertion such as "this service is certified and hosted in the EU" becomes machine checkable rather than a claim in a brochure.
At a glance
- Category
- Agent Identity & Trust
- Jurisdiction
- Global
- Governance
- W3C
- Status
- VC Data Model 2.0 W3C Recommendation
- First released
- 2019
Links
Related frameworks
Other entries under Agent Identity & Trust.
- DID: Decentralized Identifiers
See Verifiable Credentials in context
Open the interactive Data Landscape for Regulation to compare Verifiable Credentials against every other framework, or grab the raw JSON. Certification schemes and editions move — follow the source links before relying on this page.