Digital Identity and Credentials¶
At a glance
What it is: Sign ID, national digital identity on W3C Verifiable Credentials, with Sign Protocol attestations. Verify once, trusted everywhere.
For residents: Credentials in their own wallet, and each service sees only what it needs.
The government controls: Who issues credentials, who may verify them and for what purpose, and the trust registry.
Precedent: Bhutan runs national identity on the same open standards, and our Sierra Leone program builds on its open-source platform.
Most digital services start with knowing who is using them, which is why identity is the first building block. Yet residents still prove the same facts at every portal, bank, and counter, and each institution keeps its own copy of their documents to check them. Our view is that identity should follow one rule, verify once, trusted everywhere: an authoritative registry issues a fact once as a signed credential, the resident holds it, and any authorized service can check it without calling the issuer or keeping a copy.
Two components deliver this. Sign ID, our National Digital Identity platform, builds on the country’s existing identity roots, follows Self-Sovereign Identity principles, and keeps Verifiable Credentials in the holder’s wallet. Sign Protocol, our attestation system for facts that a ledger must check, such as eligibility verified by a smart contract on the public path. Credential lifecycle and verification events can be anchored to the DataHub as evidence.