Re: Monetization of credentials

Thanks for your reply, Mike. I'm looking forward to know and discuss all of
these ideas in the field, since given the rise of cryptocurrency, it's a
reasonable opportunity for the making of a secure and convenient (and as
automated as possible) market for identity credentials.

Cheers!

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Mike Lodder <mike.lodder@evernym.com>
wrote:

> Sovrin is currently working on what's called premium credentials where an
> issuer expects to be paid for signing a credential. Similar to paying for a
> drivers license or passport.
> A relying party could also pay a credential holder to share information in
> his credential. There are other cases as well that Sovrin is looking at. I
> will try to find out if they have a paper on the subject that I can post
> here.
> I think its not unreasonable to include monetization and verifiable
> credentials and I expect it to be more common than not.
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Carlos Bruguera <cbruguera@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello group,
>>
>> A subject in which I'm very interested in is the potential models for
>> monetization of verifiable credentials. I think it's not too farfetched to
>> envision that there might be use cases where the issuance, sharing or
>> verification of credentials is subject to some sort of monetary dynamics,
>> without sacrificing any of the attributes that make DID and VC
>> decentralized.
>>
>> I've seen this subject being touched a few times, but probably nothing
>> too concrete as a discussion subject. Does anyone have any particular views
>> or pointers with regard to this topic?
>>
>> Appreciated beforehand.
>>
>> Carlos
>>
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> Mike Lodder
> Senior Crypto Engineer
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