Portability
Moving credentials across employers, borders, and systems.
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Credential discovery in the agentic web: a credential not legible to agents is invisible
As agents mediate more credential discovery, a credential an agent cannot resolve is structurally invisible — not a UX problem, a non-existence problem. Agent-legible = resolvable issuer identity + signed VC + live revocation + evidence pointers + machine-readable semantics. A protocol bet to make at issuance, because you can't retrofit legibility onto a credential that was never legible.
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Why micro-credentials die at the employer-trust checkpoint
Micro-credentials are rich, evidence-linked, and stackable — and they die at the employer, collapsed into a cheap brand proxy. The failure isn't standards or quality; it's an incentive asymmetry. The receiver pays the cost of richness and captures little of the value. Fix it by driving verification cost to zero and building a receiver-side re-bundling layer.
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Verifiable credentials as a protocol: Open Badges 3.0 is sound, the adoption graph is broken
Open Badges 3.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials are a sound format — signed, evidence-linked, portable, revocable. The failure is last-mile legibility: receivers don't read the metadata and have no incentive to. The fix is not another spec revision — it's building the receiver side.
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The credentialing trust stack
Why most micro-credentials die at the employer-trust checkpoint — and the five layers a credential must stack to actually be trusted: identity, assessment integrity, evidence, issuance, and portability.