Credential Issuance Platform
A Credential Issuance Platform is the software an issuer uses to turn source data, such as records in a business register or an identity system, into verifiable credentials and deliver them to a holder’s wallet, typically over OpenID4VCI.
The platform sits between an organisation’s existing systems of record and the wallets that will hold its credentials: it maps source data to a credential format such as SD-JWT VC or mdoc, signs it, and runs the credential offer and OpenID4VCI exchange that gets it into a holder’s wallet. This is distinct from the Issuer role itself, which is the organisation legally responsible for what the credential asserts; the platform is the technical component that role relies on to actually issue anything.
A Credential Issuance Platform typically also manages revocation, so a credential it issued can later be checked against a Status List, and keeps an audit trail of what it issued to whom.
Technical deep dive
This page explains what the technology does and who it affects. Our developer documentation covers the implementation itself: the messages, the fields and the worked examples an integration team needs.
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