# Verifiable credentials and digital wallets: podcast learning path

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/podcasts/learn/verifiable-credentials/

Decentralized identifiers, credential formats, and the wallet rollouts that put them in front of people. 15 episodes, ordered from basics to advanced.

Read alongside: [Verifiable credentials](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/verifiable-credentials/), [OpenID for Verifiable Credentials](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/openid4vc/), [Decentralized identifiers](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/decentralized-identifiers-did/), [Verifiable credential (glossary)](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/verifiable-credential/)

1. [Analyst Chat #204: Wallets, Decentralized ID, and Trust - Digital Identity Explained](https://www.kuppingercole.com/watch/digital-identity-explained) (KuppingerCole Analyst Chat, 2024-03-04, 22 min, learner): Explains what a digital identity is, how decentralized identity hands credential control to users, and how the issuer-holder-verifier model works.
2. [The Role of Verifiable Credentials in Digital Identity with Riley Hughes, Trinsic – Podcast Episode 97](https://www.ubisecure.com/podcast/verifiable-credentials-riley-hughes-trinsic/) (Let's Talk About Digital Identity, 2023-09-27, 29 min, learner): Defines verifiable credentials as cryptographically verifiable attestations, walks through real deployments, and argues adoption depends on solving business problems rather than perfecting the technology.
3. [#248 - Decentralized Identity with the Identity Woman Kaliya Young](https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/identity-at-the-center/episodes/248---Decentralized-Identity-with-the-Identity-Woman-Kaliya-Young-e2c923m) (Identity at the Center, 2023-11-27, 62 min, learner): Covers what decentralized identity means, why governments struggle to implement it, and how competing standards and politics shape digital wallets.
4. [DIDs Are Magical](https://the-rubric.castos.com/episodes/dids-are-magical) (The Rubric, 2021-05-25, 57 min, learner): What a DID is, what a DID document holds, and why DID methods (did:key, did:btcr, did:peer) let each identifier define its own create, resolve, update and deactivate rules.
5. [#266 - Identity Wallets with Nick Mothershaw of The Open Identity Exchange](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/266-identity-wallets-with-nick-mothershaw-of/id1471899975?i=1000648748950) (Identity at the Center, 2024-03-11, 62 min, practitioner): Describes how digital identity wallets work, the role governments play in issuing them, and where smart and roaming wallets may go next.
6. [Ajay Gupta - Shaping California’s mDL Program and the Future of Digital Identity](https://www.buzzsprout.com/2132091/episodes/16220488) (The Future of Identity, 2024-12-04, 44 min, practitioner): Walks through California's mobile driver's license rollout, including adoption data, where mDLs are accepted today, remote verification, and lessons for other DMVs.
7. [#30 Talking Digital Travel Credentials and more with AAMVA, ICAO, and MATTR](https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/30-talking-digital-travel-credentials-and-more-with-aamva-icao-and-mattr-362247/) (Trust Talks & Digital Dives, 2025-05-21, 56 min, practitioner): Shows how digital travel credentials and mobile driver's licenses rely on interoperability, privacy-preserving verification, and trust frameworks across ICAO, AAMVA, and wallet vendors.
8. [Analyst Chat #287: EUDI Wallet - Can Digital ID Finally Be Trusted?](https://www.kuppingercole.com/watch/eudi-wallet-trusted) (KuppingerCole Analyst Chat, 2026-02-16, 29 min, practitioner): Explains how EUDI Wallets and verifiable credentials use the issuer-holder-verifier model, and argues adoption depends on business value such as automating multi-credential processes.
9. [#384 - The FIDO Alliance's Next Frontier: Digital Credentials and Wallets](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/384-the-fido-alliances-next-frontier-digital/id1471899975?i=1000736084268) (Identity at the Center, 2025-11-10, 31 min, practitioner): Covers why the FIDO Alliance is extending from passkeys into digital credentials and wallets, and how the two fit together.
10. [Web's Go Crazy (did:web, Part 1)](https://the-rubric.castos.com/episodes/webs-go-crazy-didweb-part-1-1) (The Rubric, 2023-04-12, 44 min, practitioner): How did:web resolves a DID to a DID document hosted over HTTPS on a domain, why issuers like it, and the tradeoff of trusting DNS and domain owners. Part 2 continues.
11. [#354 - Kristina Yasuda & Torsten Lodderstedt on the EUDI Wallet and its Global Impact](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/354-kristina-yasuda-torsten-lodderstedt-on-the-eudi/id1471899975?i=1000712070088) (Identity at the Center, 2025-06-09, 52 min, architect): Two architects of the EUDI Wallet ecosystem explain the EU plan to give every citizen a digital identity wallet and its effect beyond Europe.
12. [The Mobile Driving License Spec with Andrew Hughes](https://open.spotify.com/episode/13ZmJk5PtFZTRjQfuFsvT0) (Identity, Unlocked, 2022-01-10, 34 min, architect): Explains the ISO mobile driving license standard (ISO/IEC 18013-5), how mDL data and presentation work, and why it matters for daily life.
13. [Daniel Fett on privacy-preserving measures and SD-JWT](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6nmVIRiDc3P6NcjKzc4QrU) (Identity, Unlocked, 2022-09-29, 47 min, architect): Surveys privacy-preserving techniques such as selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs, and explains how SD-JWT adds selective disclosure to JSON Web Tokens.
14. [Inside the OpenID DCP Working Group: Issuance, Presentation, and Reality](https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2026/01/27/inside-the-dcp-wg/) (A Digital Identity Digest, 2026-01-27, 13 min, architect): Explains the OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP specifications, the HAIP profile for regulated deployments, conformance testing, and alignment with ISO proximity flows.
15. [Designing Digital Wallets for Reality: Where Selective Disclosure and ZKPs Fit](https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2026/03/03/digital-wallets-sd-vs-zkp/) (A Digital Identity Digest, 2026-03-03, 16 min, architect): Compares selective disclosure credentials with zero-knowledge proofs, weighing operational overhead, correlation risk, and where complexity lands in wallet design at scale.