Presenting Academic & Employment Credentials
Prove that you hold a degree, qualification, or employment record without sending the original, so employers and schools can verify it without seeing the contents and forgery becomes impossible — all aligned with the W3C VC 2.0 standard.
For teams handling credentials
Stop the forgery, tampering, reuse, and over-disclosure that certificate PDFs and originals carry — by proving only the needed facts without handing over the original.
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Universities, education and certification bodies that issue records, completions, qualifications
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Corporate HR and schools verifying credentials in hiring/transfer
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Organizations wanting to make reskilling / CPD history provable
Hand over the source, or just the facts?
Nothing changes on the floor. Everything changes for the receiver.
① Your team just saves, as always.
- The usual step
- Fill in the record and save
- On save
- A proof is attached (API, behind the scenes)
- The document itself
- never sent
② They just open a link.
- Proven fact
- holds a valid, accredited degree / credential
- grades, courses taken and enrollment history
- not shown
- Login / keys
- not needed
- The document stays private — the record itself is never sent or disclosed.
- Independent verification — the receiver just opens a link. No account, no keys.
- Edits are detected — even a one-character edit fails verification.
Present only a proof that a person "holds a legitimate academic record, qualification, or enrollment." Full transcripts and exam history are not disclosed. Issued with the issuer's (university, certification body) signature, employers and schools verify without seeing the contents. Selective disclosure aligns with W3C VC 2.0 / and connects to standardization efforts like Originator Profile.
Held portably by the individual, there's no need to query the issuer each time it's presented.
Why the usual methods fall short.
Only work that needs all three at once — pass without exposing, independent verification, tamper-evidence — is Lemma's domain.
| Method | Pass without exposing | Independent verification | Tamper-evident | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access control / permissions | △ | ✗ | ✗ | “Someone inside could have edited it” remains possible |
| Masking / redacted copies | △ | ✗ | ✗ | Redaction work grows; the original is still unproven |
| Encrypt and store / send | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | To verify, the receiver needs it disclosed after all |
| Lemma (ZK proof)the only one with all 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | The receiver just opens a link |
How it works — and how to start.
We help design disclosure scope and retention, run the PoC, and support production.
Start with a 30-minute call.
Tell us the one credential with the heaviest issuance/verification load, in the first 30 minutes. No disclosure of sensitive data required.
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Run it yourself.
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