# Verifiable Credentials

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/w3c/verifiable-credentials/  
**Provider:** W3C — https://apis.io/providers/w3c/  
**Documentation:** https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/

Verifiable Credentials is one of 15 APIs that [W3C](https://apis.io/providers/w3c/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Credentials, Identity, Privacy, Security, and Standards.

The Verifiable Credentials Data Model is a W3C Recommendation enabling cryptographically secure, privacy-respecting digital credentials. The VC family includes the data model, data integrity proof suites, and JSON Web Token/COSE encoding methods. VC 2.0 was published as a W3C Recommendation in 2025.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Specification** — https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/
- **Working Group** — https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/vc/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model

## Other W3C APIs (12)

- [W3C API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-api/)
- [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/wcag/)
- [HTML Living Standard](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/html/)
- [CSS Specifications](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/css/)
- [JSON-LD](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/json-ld/)
- [WebAssembly](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/wasm/)
- [WAI-ARIA](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/aria/)
- [RDF and SPARQL](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/rdf/)
- [Digital Credentials API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/digital-credentials/)
- [W3C Affiliations API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-affiliations-api/)
- [W3C Ecosystems API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-ecosystems-api/)
- [W3C Groups API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-groups-api/)

## Tags

Credentials, Identity, Privacy, Security, Standards

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