Elements Services
Elements Services

Identity and verifiable credential services fortrusted data exchange

Issue, store, share, and verify W3C Verifiable Credentials based on open standards, full user control, and zero PII stored.

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Where it fits

The credential engine in the Affinidi Elements suite

The Affinidi Elements suite has three products. Elements Services is the one your application integrates with directly.

Elements Services sits between your application and your users. When a user needs to prove something about their identity, a qualification, a credential, or domain ownership, Elements Services is what makes that proof tamper-proof, portable, and user-owned.

Impact

Your application issues verifiable credentials, requests data, and verifies it cryptographically, while users keep control of their credentials and you store zero PII on your servers.

Elements Services

Issue, verify, request, and manage W3C Verifiable Credentials, everything needed to build a production credential ecosystem.

Affinidi Vault

A user-owned digital wallet, credentials stay on the user's device with selective, consent-driven sharing.

Affinidi Messaging

Secure, private and verifiable communication between individuals, businesses, and AI agents, built on DIDComm v2.1 for end-to-end encrypted messaging and verifiable credential exchange.

Core capabilities

Everything you need to build with verifiable credentials

Three capability groups covering login, verifiable data sources, and credential lifecycle infrastructure.

Affinidi Login

Going beyond passwords

OID4VP-based authentication combines sign-in with consent-driven credential sharing, eliminating passwords while providing verified user data.

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How it works

A simple, user-controlled credential flow

Issue, store, share, and verify credentials with open standards and no centralised PII storage.

01

Issue

Your application issues a Verifiable Credential through OID4VCI. Schema Builder defines the credential shape, and your signing wallet anchors trust.

02

Store

The credential is delivered to the user's wallet, where the user keeps control. Your service stores zero PII from the credential payload.

03

Share

When proof is needed, the user shares via OID4VP and chooses what to disclose. Consent is explicit and the user remains in control.

04

Verify

The verifier cryptographically checks the credential instantly and locally, with no callback to the issuer and no downtime risk from a central API.

How teams use it

One credential engine, clear value for every team

The same verifiable credentials platform shortens integration time, reduces compliance exposure, and keeps your trust model portable.

In practice

Build once on open standards and let each team use the same trust layer differently

Elements Services gives engineering teams an API-first credentials platform, product teams a reusable trust primitive for onboarding and access flows, and security teams verifiable proofs without centralising credential data. The architecture stays consistent even as use cases move from login to issuer trust to user consent and verification.

Because the platform is built on W3C Verifiable Credentials, OID4VCI, OID4VP, and DCQL, business teams avoid lock-in while developers and partners can interoperate with any compliant wallet, issuer, or verifier ecosystem.

  • Ship in hours
  • Store zero PII
  • Verify locally
  • Avoid lock-in

For Developers

Integrate in hours, not weeks, with SDKs for Node.js, React, Dart, and REST APIs. DCQL keeps your verification logic stable even as credential formats evolve.

  • Issue your first credential with minimal code
  • Use one standards-based query model across wallets
  • Integrate with SDKs, APIs, and existing application flows

For Product Teams

Replace friction-heavy onboarding with reusable credentials so users verify once with any compliant issuer and carry that proof into your product.

  • Cut repetitive verification journeys
  • Reuse trust across flows and partners
  • Interoperate with W3C-compliant ecosystems

For Security and Compliance Teams

No centralised PII storage means no breach liability for credential data. Privacy by design and ISO 27001-certified infrastructure reduce operational risk.

  • Keep credential data out of central stores
  • Support GDPR-aligned architectures by design
  • Rely on cryptographic proof instead of copied identity data

For Business and Partnerships

Open standards keep your credential schemas portable across compliant wallets and verifiers worldwide, without renegotiating trust each time you scale.

  • No vendor-specific credential format lock-in
  • Scale partnerships on shared standards
  • Take your schema and workflows across compliant ecosystems
For developers

Start building with Elements in minutes

Use the same Affinidi developer toolkit featured on the Elements overview page to issue credentials, configure schemas, automate environments, and accelerate production rollout.

Quickstart toolkit

Affinidi TDK/SDKs

Clients and libraries for TypeScript, Java, Python, PHP, Dart, and .NET.

  • Issue credentials
  • Manage wallets
  • Run verification with no proprietary lock-in
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Management console

Affinidi Portal

A web-based interface to create projects, build credential schemas, and configure issuance and verification flows. Get early access to new Elements features, no CLI required.

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Automation

Affinidi CLI

A terminal-first interface to create and manage projects, build schemas, configure credentials, and automate your Elements workflows, scriptable and CI/CD ready.

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Community resources

Affinidi Open Source Projects

Explore open-source building blocks and reference implementations designed around open standards and practical integration patterns.

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Explore the suite

Part of Affinidi Elements

Elements Services is one part of the Affinidi Elements suite. Used together with Vault and Messaging, it covers the full flow from issuing a credential to the user owning it to sharing it securely.

A user-owned digital wallet

  • Users access their wallet on web and mobile
  • Developers embed Vault directly into their own apps
  • Selective sharing with granular consent
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Encrypted, verifiable communication for people, businesses, and AI agents

  • Built on DIDComm v2.1, open, decentralised, interoperable
  • End-to-end encrypted, mediators route but cannot read messages
  • Exchange verifiable credentials securely between any parties
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Get started

Ready to ship trusted credential flows?

Talk to our team or dive straight into the documentation for issuance, verification, schema management, and consent-driven sharing.

Talk to our team

Not sure where to start? Talk to our team to see how Elements Services fits your use case from passwordless login to credential exchange.

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Start building now

Open the integration guides, API references, and workflow docs for credentials, schemas, wallets, and verification.

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