The Problem: Credentials in a Vacuum

From a user’s perspective, digital credentials today are often dead ends. You earn a hard-won certification only to find it is locked into a specific software ecosystem or a proprietary platform. If you want to move that “proof” across borders—for example, from a global platform using Open Badges to a European employer looking for European Digital Credentials (EDC)—the digital connection often breaks.

In practice, this means credentials are effectively not portable. Your achievements only “live” as long as you stay within the specific technical silo of the issuer.

It is our mission to make issuance easier for issuers and simple for holders and verifiers. You shouldn’t need to care about the technical formats of your credentials; they should just work.

Interested in exploring the solution?

Read full article: https://velocert.com/2026/01/16/announcing-open-badge-credentials-obv3/