Certs API
- Conveniently issue, verify, revoke, and manage Verifiable Credentials
- Manage decentralized identifiers (DIDs)
- Interact with the Dock blockchain
1. Easy integration with other systems
Certs API enables developers to issue Verifiable Credentials and DIDs more efficiently with fewer steps than other providers that are using more complicated messaging protocols. Developers can simply issue a Verifiable Credential with one call.
2. Dock takes care of key and token management
These services save organizations and developers time, money, and resources by creating more efficiencies in their operations.
Key management
Dock manages the keys for clients for DID keys, signing Verifiable Credentials, and the blockchain so that clients don't have to do anything related to the blockchain. Developers don’t even need to understand much about cryptography. All they need to know are the standard REST protocols.
Token management service
Because it costs tokens to create a did:dock (DID type) and do other writes on the network, it's much easier for customers to have Dock take care of token management to ensure they never run out of tokens to achieve what they want with our network. This way, organizations can focus more on creating the functionalities and services they want with our API.
Fixed costs
Organizations pay a fixed monthly price for using the API regardless if the Dock token price goes up on down. This way, their costs don't change.
Interoperable
Certs API follows the DID and Verifiable Credential standards established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
These standards are what allow the API to interoperate with other open-source technologies. The specifications enable users to conveniently transfer their credentials and DIDs from one platform to another as long as the service providers are also using the same W3C standards.
See the different ways BurstIQ is using the Certs API to give their customers the ability to turn any health data into Verifiable Credentials.
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