Certified Party

Certified iSHARE Credential Issuer delivers trusted identity, authorisation, and authentication services across digital data spaces. As a Certified Party, your signing key is published on the iSHARE Trusted Issuers Registry, giving every verifier global certainty that your credentials are authoritative and legally binding. 

Unlock new business opportunities

  • Issue all credential types: A single accreditation covers Participant, Compliance, Dataspace Participant, and Data Rights Credentials.
  • Gain global trust: Verifiers worldwide can validate your credentials automatically via the Trusted Issuers Registry.
  • Ensure legal certainty: Issue W3C VC 2.0 credentials backed by the iSHARE Trust Framework and legal licence library.
  • Access open-source tooling: Accelerate integration using reference implementations, schema libraries, and sandbox environments.

Six steps to certification

01 | Apply

Submit your registration form. We will schedule an intake call within 5 working days.

02 | Assessment

Complete a technical and governance review against Certified Party requirements (typically 4–6 weeks).

03 | Accreditation fee

Pay the one-time fee upon positive assessment to activate formal accreditation.

 

04 | Annual membership

Activate your membership based on your revenue tier (with 50% off in Year 1).

 

05 | Key on the Registry

Your public key and issuer metadata are published on the Trusted Issuers Registry.

 

06 | Start issuing

Begin issuing iSHARE credentials that are instantly verifiable across the entire ecosystem.

 

Membership fees

Joining requires a one-time accreditation fee of €3,500 to cover the assessment process across all credential types.

Annual fees are tiered by organisation revenue to keep entry accessible for startups while ensuring larger players contribute proportionally. All new members receive a 50% discount on the annual fee in Year 1.

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Note: All amounts exclude VAT. The 50% discount applies to the annual membership fee only, not the one-time accreditation fee.

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