# OID4VC APIs ### 🔐 OID4VC (OpenID for Verifiable Credentials) **OID4VC** is a set of specifications from the OpenID Foundation that defines how **Verifiable Credentials (VCs)** are **issued to a wallet** using OpenID Connect. * Focus: **Credential Issuance** * Key flow: Wallet requests and receives a VC from an issuer * Based on: OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect 🔗 Spec: *** ### 🪪 OID4VP (OpenID for Verifiable Presentations) **OID4VP** defines how a wallet **presents verifiable credentials to a verifier** in response to a request, using OpenID-based protocols. * Focus: **Credential Presentation / Verification** * Key flow: Verifier requests proof → Wallet returns a Verifiable Presentation (VP) * Supports selective disclosure and proof binding (nonce, audience) 🔗 Spec: *** The **Credebl platform** provides flexible capabilities to onboard both issuers and verifiers, enabling end-to-end management of verifiable credential flows. #### Issuer Capabilities * Supports onboarding of issuers * Allows configuration to issue multiple credential formats, such as: * SD-JWT * mdoc * Enables creation of **credential templates** to define structure and issuance logic for different credential types #### Verifier Capabilities * Provides APIs to onboard verifiers * Enables creation of **verification templates** * Supports validation of credential presentations based on specific business use cases --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.credebl.id/docs/references/platform-apis/oid4vc-apis.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.