A W3C Verifiable Credential (VC) is a tamper-proof digital certificate that says:
"This information came from us (Brighton) and hasn't been changed."
It is digitally signed using a cryptographic key associated with a Decentralized Identifier (DID) — in our case, a did:web
that lives at a domain we control (e.g. https://brighton-textiles.org/.well-known/did.json
).