Verifiable Credentials for Real-World Authority: What ThunderID Makes Possible
ThunderID is an open source IAM stack built from scratch for AI agents, post-quantum security, and decentralized identity, with a lightweight Go runtime and GitOps support. One of its four foundational pillars is decentralized identity: digital wallets, verifiable credentials, and DIDs.
An early priority for us is closing the gap between application development and existing decentralized identity infrastructure. Developers shouldn't have to become DID or verifiable credential specialists to use them, especially those building citizen-facing or public-sector applications. Adding decentralized identity capabilities to an app should be as straightforward as adding any other identity feature, so teams can build directly on that infrastructure instead of around it.
CitizenVerify is a demo application built for the EUDI Wallet Hackathon 2026. We entered as team Ctrl Alt Verify and won the Public Sector Track. CitizenVerify enables citizens to verify the authority of public officials using verifiable credentials and digital wallets, with ThunderID powering both credential issuance and verification end to end.
