Digit.ink: Issue and Manage Digital Certificates & Badges Easily

Our Principles

Demonstration

Credentials should show even more than they tell; they should illustrate skills and findings rather than list them.

An icon of a magnifying glass verifying a credential

Integrity

Our credentials are 100% fraud-proof, so we vet our partners thoroughly before letting them issue credentials.

Flexibility

Our partners have various needs: Our credentials need to fit them, not the other way around.

Privacy

Issuers can always revoke, delete, download, and export their credentials. Not to mention, they’re independently verifiable.

Efficacy

Blockchain credentials should have a larger practical impact than their counterparts, increasing credibility and reducing friction.

Accuracy

Credentials should represent genuine skills, accomplishments, measurements, and more.

The 3 Credentialing Stakeholders

Credentials have three users: the issuers, the recipients, and the verifiers. We have built our platform specifically to satisfy the needs of these three stakeholders.

A school, a graduating hat and digital certification

Flow of a credential

Issuers

Anyone who creates and administers credentials is an issuer. Examples include schools, credentialing bodies, and healthcare providers. Their needs vary, but often relate to simple issuing, content flexibility, cohort management, and brand recognition.

Recipients

Anyone who is issued a credential is a recipient. Examples include students or graduates, patients, and professional license-holders. Their needs often revolve around the usefulness of the credential itself: Does it verify and demonstrate their skills, condition, or knowledge?

Verifiers

Anyone who reviews a credential is a verifier. Examples include hiring managers, admissions officers, physicians, and government officials. Their needs involve speed, accuracy, validity, and simplicity. Verifiers are trying to answer a specific question, and our credentials make that process easier.

Team

Zan McNaught

TECH

Zan is a seasoned edtech and blockchain developer who has devoted the past 4+ years to developing an industry-leading credential SaaS at Digit.ink. He has deep familiarity with credential standards such as Verifiable Credentials and Open Badges—as well as Web3 credential frameworks such as Blockcerts, Sovrin, and uPort.

Jacqueline Alves

SEO, Portuguese-Language Market

Jacqueline Alves, is a dedicated B2B marketer with a decade of experience. Hailing from Brazil and currently residing in Canada, Jacqueline leads Digit.ink's marketing efforts in the Brazilian market. She thrives on challenges and is known for her data-driven decision-making. Her mission is to revolutionize the credentialing landscape.

Sergio Mora

Operations, SPANISH-LANGUAGE MARKET

For over a decade and a half, Sergio has excelled in delivering and overseeing products in diverse industries, now primarily focusing on crypto and blockchain. His primary strength is building and guiding globally distributed teams, ensuring they collaborate effectively to achieve success. He has led product development from start to finish, always driven by a passion for turning ideas into tangible products.

Johji Atsumi (George)

Recruitment, Japanese-Language Market

With over 6 years of experience in various recruiting industry positions, Johji has developed diverse B2B strengths including in business development and corporate strategy. Skilled in zeroing in on pain points to guide organizations to success, he provides Digit.ink’s clients with innovative yet simple solutions yielding outstanding results.

Advisors

Mike LaFortune

Mike is a product, strategy, and business development leader with over 20 years of experience in global education technology from Pre-K to professional development. He has started and advised many startups and provided transformational consulting services for organizations at all stages, from initial business plans to innovating within Fortune 500. Mike also serves education, workforce and economic development, arts and culture, and social services needs across his home state of Florida.

Mallory Dwinal-Palisch

Mallory began her career as a teacher with Teach for America and later co-founded Oxford Day Academy as well as Reach University, the first-ever regionally accredited university to offer apprenticeship-based AA, BA, and MA degrees. Mallory now serves as Chancellor of Reach University and CEO of Craft, a venture-backed software tool that helps other universities replicate Reach's apprenticeship-based degrees. Mallory holds a PhD in Education from Oxford University (which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar), and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Matt Prusak

Matt is currently scaling the US Bitcoin Corporation - the premier cryptocurrency mining operation in the United States. Most recently, he was acting COO and CBO of Curative - a COVID-19 diagnostics firm that scaled from 7 to 7,000 employees and performed over 25 million tests in one year. Matt is also solo GP and founder of the Defense Angels while simultaneously co-managing Corp Capital. In the past, he was a former Bain & Company consultant in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Digit.ink

Mission