Verifiable Credential
A verifiable credential is a tamper-evident digital claim about a person or organisation that can be cryptographically verified without contacting the party that issued it. It replaces paper documents and PDFs with data a verifier can trust on its own.
An issuer signs the credential with a private key and gives it to a holder, who stores it in a wallet and presents it to a verifier whenever needed. In the EUDI Wallet under eIDAS 2.0, verifiable credentials are the standard format every member state must support, letting a business or citizen reuse one credential across issuers, sectors and borders instead of re-proving the same facts each time.