Bringing it all together

The ecosystem of components comes together to establish a peer-to-peer exchange of verifiable credentials. Individuals can interact directly with organizations or other individuals while organizations can also interact with other organizations.

The network is composed of distributed private agents working in parallel with the ledger or other verifiable data registry. Each entity uses the verifiable data registry to register and verify public DIDs.

The cloud agents provide the public endpoint for interactions with the agents of peer connections, or relationships. These connections are used for the swapping of private pairwise DIDs and the exchange of verifiable credentials. Edge agents swap private pairwise DIDs and exchange verifiable credentials by using offline connections.