Issue a Showcase Credential

This page explains how to obtain a test credential from a well-known Verifiable Credential faucet: VC Playground

VC Playground

VC Playground is a broadly accepted place to test interoperability between Issuers, Wallets and Verifiers for VCDM 1.1 and VCDM 2.0 credentials, which makes it an ideal place for you to get familiar with operating the SpruceKit Showcase app, and feel assured that the underlying components will enable interoperability for you.

• Navigate to the VC Playground Issuer

Issue a pre-configured credential

VC Playground offers a selection of credentials that you can issue into your wallet. There is also functionality to specify your own credential in json format.

Open VC Playground on a different device than the device that has your SpruceKit Showcase Application installed and follow these steps:

1. Select a credential from the credential list and click "Generate a QR Code".

2. In the QR code modal, select "OID4VCI" as your issuance protocol.

3. Open the SpruceKit ShowCase app, and from your Wallet view, click the "QR Code" Icon in the top right of the screen to start scanning

4. Finally, accept the credential by clicking "Add to Wallet"

Create a custom credential

Alternatively, you can specify your own VCDM JSON-LD credential.

1. Start by clicking the "Custom Credential" button at the end of the credential list.

2. A modal will appear that allows you to select the "JSON-LD" option

3. Either specify your own credential in correct JSON-LD syntax, or use this simple Spruce County credential as an example:

{
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1",
    {
      // note that this is a fake url and won't be resolved
      "SpruceCountyCredential": "https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1",
      "name": "https://schema.org/name",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@id": "https://schema.org/issuer",
        "@type": "@id"
      },
      "residentID": "https://example.org/credentials/spruce-county#residentID"
    }
  ],
  "id": "urn:uuid:spruce-example",
  "type": ["VerifiableCredential", "SpruceCountyCredential"],
  "issuer": "https://sprucecounty.spruceid.com",
  "issuanceDate": "2024-12-16T00:00:00Z",
  "credentialSubject": {
    "id": "did:example:456",
    "name": "John Doe",
    "residentID": "SC123456789"
  }
}

1. Click "Add Credential" to add your custom credential to the list

2. Follow the same steps as for a pre-configured credentials to add it to your SpruceKit Showcase App.