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title: "Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges"
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# Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges

Source: github.com
Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207793
Original source: https://github.com/schroedinger-Hat/certo

Certo is open-source infrastructure for issuing, managing, verifying, and exchanging digital credentials.

It implements Open Badges 3.0[1] and W3C Verifiable Credentials[2] which are the open standards that make credentials portable, machine-verifiable, and vendor-independent.

It is designed to be:

- Self-hosted: run it inside your own infrastructure, air-gapped network, or sovereign cloud
- Standards-compliant: credentials it issues work with any OB3/VC-compatible system
- API-first: everything the UI can do, the API can do
- Exportable: your data is always yours, in open formats
- Extensible: a small, stable core with a plugin interface for everything else

A demo is available at https://certo.schroedinger-hat.org/ which we're using for Schrödinger Hat[3] conferences, workshops, partner communities.

I'll be around if you have any questions. Feel free to give a feedback on the project.

[1] https://www.imsglobal.org/spec/ob/v3p0
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/
[3] https://schroedinger-hat.org/