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Verifiable Credentials - Literature, Comparisons, Explainer (W3C)	Verifiable Credentials	standards	About Comparisons Implementations Literature Use Case	a standard way to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.	Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, "Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 - Expressing verifiable information on the Web" published 19 November 2019.	W3C Verifiable Credentials Credentials Community Group VC-WG JSON-LD Claims and Credentials WG	Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers	web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/	https://decentralized-id.com/web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/	image caption teaser /images/verifiable-credentials_head.webp [Verifiable Credentials Data Model](https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/) /images/verifiable-credentials-teaser.webp	web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/ web-standards/vc-wg/ web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/ web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/adoption/ web-standards/w3c/vc-wg/verifiable-credentials/ specs-standards/verifiable-credentials/ web-standards/verifiable-credentials/ specs-standards/verifiable credentials/	2023-08-29