Verifiable Credential (VC)

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According to the T3 Innovation Network’s LER for SBHA Toolkit, a verifiable credential (VC) is an open data standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that defines how to express a credential and attach a cryptographic verifiable proof.

‍A VC is a structured machine-readable document that contains an issuer identifier, a set of claims made by the issuer about the credential subject, a set of standard metadata properties referring to the credential as a whole, and a cryptographic signature or seal.

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