Issue degrees your students can prove are real.
Nexiel Credentials issues degree, module, and enrolment credentials straight into a student's own EU Digital Identity (EUDI) wallet, signed with your institution's own key and bound to the one wallet that holds it.
Single-credential and batch issuance are real today, each independently tested end to end. Nothing in Nexiel Credentials is deployed to production yet.
New to EUDI wallets? Read what an EU Digital Identity Wallet is, and how selective disclosure works, first.
What a Nexiel-issued credential actually looks like
This is Nexiel's own sandbox wallet rendering a demo master's degree credential. It is not a design illustration. The claim fields shown, institution, degree title, ECTS credits, EQF level, and award date, are the same academic credential data shape Nexiel issues for real, modeled on DC4EU's educational credential pilot.
The card's name, background color, and description come from the OpenID4VCI display metadata a real institution sets through its own dashboard. Any EUDI-compliant wallet reads that same standard field to brand a credential it holds.
A real wallet app renders its own interface around that data, so the exact pixels differ by wallet. What you see here is Nexiel's own reference rendering, built from the same component the sandbox wallet uses when it holds a credential a student actually redeemed.
The claims a wallet actually discloses when this credential is shared, decoded the same way the sandbox wallet decodes them. Every value below is fabricated demo data. No student named here is real.
vct: urn:nexiel:credential:degree-award:v1
Harder to fake than a printed certificate
A printed certificate or an emailed PDF is easy to alter and hard for an employer to check without calling the institution directly. A Nexiel-issued credential is not.
Every credential is signed with your institution's own key, never a shared Nexiel identity, so a verifier is trusting your institution specifically.
Each credential is cryptographically tied to the one wallet it was issued to. A copied file is not a usable credential without the matching private key, which only that wallet holds.
A verifier who asks for a degree title and award date sees only that, never a full transcript or any other claim the credential could carry.
Fewer verification calls for your records office
Issuing through Nexiel changes three things for a records office day to day.
An employer or another institution verifies a credential directly against your institution's own signing key, instead of emailing or calling your office to confirm it.
Every credential issued and every verification request is logged, giving your institution a durable record of who checked what, and when.
Once issued, a credential lives in the student's own wallet. Verifying it later does not need your office's involvement the way a phone call or a signed letter does.
For the full detail on running batch issuance safely, including the two-signatory approval flow and what a CSV upload needs to contain, see Nexiel Credentials for universities.
How issuance works
Nexiel checks your institution once, through human review, legal registry checks, and at least two named signatories with real signing authority. No application is approved automatically.
A signatory prepares a degree, module, or enrolment credential, or a batch of many, and a second signatory approves it before anything is signed.
The student's EUDI wallet redeems a one-time offer and receives the signed credential directly. Nexiel keeps no readable copy of it afterward.
Whoever the student chooses to show it to checks the signature against your institution's own key and sees only the claims your student agreed to share.
This runs on the same legal infrastructure the rest of the EU is building toward. Under eIDAS 2.0 (the EU's digital identity regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1183), the European Commission states that member states will make the EUDI wallet available to every citizen, resident, and business by the end of 2026.
The same standard the EU is already piloting
Two real EU efforts are building toward the same kind of digital academic credential. Nexiel Credentials is a production implementation of the same underlying standard, not a competitor to either.
Digital Credentials for Europe, a concluded EU initiative spanning 80 institutions across 22 countries. Educational credentials and professional qualifications were one of its four pilot use cases, concluding with a final conference in Madrid on 11 July 2025.
The European Commission's own European Digital Credentials for Learning lets an institution issue a verifiable digital credential to a learner, authenticated with the institution's own electronic seal. It delivers to its own separate Europass wallet, not the EUDI wallet, and complements what Nexiel issues rather than duplicating it.
What's real today
Human review only, with legal registry checks and at least two active signatories required before an institution can issue anything. No application is approved automatically.
Each credential type an institution wants to issue gets its own Nexiel review, separate from the institution-level approval above.
A complete, signed credential delivered directly to a student's wallet, tested end to end. One issued credential's signature has been independently verified outside Nexiel using standard cryptographic tooling.
Many students issued in one submission, gated by a two-signatory approval step so the person who prepares a batch can never be the one who approves it. Tested end to end today, including a real credential redeemed by a wallet.
Employer and institution verification API: a Nexiel-hosted API for an employer or another institution to verify a previously issued credential is on our roadmap and not yet public.
Self-serve batch dashboard: batch issuance works today through the API. A dashboard workflow for uploading, rechecking, and approving a batch is on our roadmap.
Ready to issue your first credential?
Read how credential issuance works, then walk through a real, executed request in the Credentials API quickstart.