Credential Payments brings a significant evolution to the Verifiable Credentials landscape, allowing verifiers to directly pay issuers to unlock Credential Status information. Underneath the hood, we've engineered a robust and secure payment flow that streamlines the end-to-end payment process, with accuracy, speed, and cryptographic integrity.
Create encrypted Status Lists on-ledger, and pay to unlock the Access Control Conditions in CHEQ, using our cheqd Studio Payments APIs:
| Charge for Status List | With Credential Payments, Issuers are able to create payment-gated Status Lists in order to charge for the verification of Credential Status information. | charge.md |
| Issue Credential with Encrypted Status List | Issue a Verifiable Credential referencing an encrypted Status List in the body, with a specified bitstring index. | issue-credential.md |
| Verifier pays Issuer | Understand how a Verifier pays an Issuer in CHEQ to unlock Status List and verify Credential Status. | verifier-pays-issuer.md |
| Bulk Update or Rotate Encryption Keys | Update a set of Credential indices or rotate the encrypted symmetric key for the Status List. | update.md |
Build your understanding of How Credential Payments work, including Access Control Conditions and how the model preserves privacy.
| Understanding Credential Payments | Before diving into Credential Payments, developers may want to learn how the Payment gating and Access Control condition logic works. | learn |
| Why are we payment gating Status Lists? | Learn about the role of cheqd in Trusted Data Markets and why we are payment gating the "reputability" of Credentials. | https://cheqd.io/blog/the-role-of-cheqd-in-trusted-data-markets/ |
Below are a list of alternatives for using Credential Payments.
| Veramo SDK Plugin | The Veramo SDK Plugin is an extension of the Veramo SDK, a JavaScript framework for Trusted Data, adding support for cheqd functionality. | veramo-plugin |