MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — January 13, 2026 — Accredible, the world’s leading digital badging platform, today announced expanded support for Open Badge 3.0, W3C Verifiable Credentials (VCs), and the American Council on Education (ACE) extension for Open Badge 3.0. These capabilities unlock greater interoperability and learner mobility across credentialing ecosystems without requiring issuers to migrate or change existing workflows.
Solving Standards Complexity So Credentials Just Work
Credential standards like Open Badge 3.0 and W3C VC are gaining traction across education, workforce, and digital trust ecosystems. But keeping up can be technically complex, and most issuers don’t have the resources to manage reissues, migrations, or format decisions. Worse, some platforms pass that burden onto learners, requiring extra steps just to make a credential work in a new system.
Accredible removes that friction entirely. Credentials are issued once, and the platform automatically converts them into the right open standard (Open Badge 2.0, Open Badge 3.0, or W3C VC) at the moment they’re shared or verified. There’s no migration required, no new workflows, and no technical overhead. It’s a future-ready approach that keeps programs focused on learners, while ensuring credentials remain trusted, portable, and verifiable.
“We built this to make standards complexity disappear,” said Rochelle Ramirez, SVP of Product at Accredible. “You shouldn’t need to track evolving specs or reissue credentials. With Accredible, everything works where it needs to without extra effort. That’s how we keep the focus on learners, not infrastructure.”
Credentials That Work Across Systems
As part of this launch, Accredible now supports both export and ingestion of Open Badge 3.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials, ensuring learners can store, verify, and share credentials from any compliant issuer, all within one secure and standards-aligned wallet.
Accredible credentials can be exported in either format, and verifiable credentials from other issuers can be imported into the Accredible wallet, preserving cryptographic signatures and enabling compatibility with digital identity frameworks, LERs, and more.
This level of interoperability gives learners complete control over their achievements while making it easier for institutions and employers to trust what they see, no matter where the credential originated.
“As one of the largest credential issuers in the country, Accredible is operating at a scale where standards implementation has real ecosystem impact,” said Curtiss Barnes, President and CEO of 1EdTech. “Their support for Open Badge 3.0, Verifiable Credentials, and the ACE extension helps ensure credential data can move cleanly into CLRs, LERs, and other systems that connect learning to opportunity.”
Adding Structure and Credit Through the ACE Extension
Accredible now supports the Open Badge 3.0 extension for the American Council on Education (ACE), enabling digital credentials to include structured, machine-readable data that improves how learning is recognized and applied. The extension includes fields for recommended credit hours, academic level, minimum passing score, competency alignments, and links to ACE’s National Guide — helping institutions and employers more easily evaluate prior learning, especially in workforce training programs seeking academic credit or career relevance.
To date, recommended college credit worth over $800 million in potential tuition value has been issued through the Accredible platform, demonstrating how quickly a well-structured, standards-based credentialing system can deliver real value for learners.
“Structured, portable credit recommendations are essential for helping learners translate skills into opportunities,” said Dr. Sarah Cunningham, Executive Director of One Dupont Ventures at ACE. “Accredible’s support for the Open Badge 3.0 extension helps scale this value across digital ecosystems, making it easier for institutions, employers, and learners to connect learning with recognized outcomes.”
These capabilities are available now to all Accredible customers. To learn more about Accredible’s support for Open Badge 3.0, W3C Verifiable Credentials, and the ACE extension, read Rochelle Ramirez's blog post.
About Accredible
Accredible is the world’s leading digital badging platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth. Over 2,300 organizations, including Google, IAPP, McGraw Hill, Rutgers, Skillsoft, and the University of Cambridge, rely on Accredible to manage and measure everything from issuing digital certificates and badges to visualizing learning pathways to spotlighting certified learners. Founded in 2013, Accredible has helped issue and verify over 170 million career-advancing credentials. To learn more, visit accredible.com.
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Accredible is the world’s leading digital credential platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth.
Accredible is the world’s leading digital credential platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth.
