Developer's Guide: Secure API Gateway Integration with Verifiable Credentials

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Verifiable Credentials are presented as a decentralized, privacy-preserving alternative to API keys and OAuth tokens, enabling cryptographically verified claims about users, organizations, and permissions to inform access decisions. API gateways can centralize credential validation and authorization across microservices, reducing backend complexity, filtering unauthorized requests, supporting audit logs, and applying consistent policies based on identity, age, licensing, or compliance claims. Implementation generally involves issuing credentials through trusted providers, presenting them with API requests, validating signatures, expiry, revocation status, schemas, and claims at the gateway, and then granting or denying access. The discussion recommends using W3C Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers standards, maintaining revocation mechanisms, defining granular policies, optimizing validation performance, supporting developers with documentation and SDKs, and monitoring validation outcomes. Didit is described as an AI-native identity platform that provides identity, liveness, document, NFC, phone, email, address, and AML verification capabilities to support credential issuance and API gateway integrations through programmatic APIs, webhooks, and a free core KYC offering.

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