Verifiable Credentials & data rights
Trust that travels with the participant.
In a federated ecosystem, trust cannot depend on pre-arranged relationships between every combination of participants. Identity, participation and authority need to be portable, machine-readable and verifiable.
Explore the trust modelWhy it matters
From pre-established trust to verifiable trust.
Traditional API security remains valuable, but does not automatically scale to ecosystems where new parties, services and rights come together dynamically. Verifiable Credentials add portable evidence without centralising every decision.
Cryptographically verifiable claims
Less bilateral onboarding
Reusable across compatible ecosystems
Selective presentation of relevant information
What a credential can express
Not every verifiable claim is an identity.
A trustworthy model makes explicit which type of claim is made, by which recognised issuer and within which governance context.
Organisational identity
Which organisation or service is behind an interaction?
Participation
Which dataspace does the party participate in and which rules does it accept?
Authority & data rights
Who may act on whose behalf and for which permitted purpose?
Conformity
Which relevant requirements does a participant, service or data product meet?
Framework-independent
One trust foundation. Multiple ecosystem profiles.
Different data spaces make different choices for identity, participation and authority. Our architecture therefore does not require a single trust framework.
iSHARE profileSector profileEcosystem-specific
Open protocolsOpenID4VCIOpenID4VPDCPCredential status
Verifiable trust foundationIdentity · participation · authority · data rights · evidence
Roadmap
A direction, not a premature product claim.
We make clear what the current foundation is, which open standards guide us and which capabilities remain on the roadmap.
Governance and verifiable evidence
Explicit identity, authorisation, usage conditions and evidence within governed data exchange.
W3C VC · OpenID4VC · DCP
Standards for credential models, issuance, presentation and machine-to-machine exchange.
Credential lifecycle & profiles
Wallet or credential-store integration, status checking and extensible mappings for different ecosystems.
iSHARE is an important supported profile—not the boundary of our architecture.
Open specifications
The primary sources remain authoritative.
From trust model to ecosystem