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Thoughts, ideas and lessons on digital certificates, badges and wallets, and the technology and business around them.

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Technology

Open Badges 2.0, explained: how a digital badge carries its own proof.

Open Badges 2.0 is the standard that lets a badge from one platform be read and verified by another. Here is what is inside a badge, how verification works, and why it matters for issuers.

RARohan Ashik · 3 min read
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Education

How to add a certificate to your LinkedIn profile

A step-by-step guide for recipients, and why a verifiable link is worth more than an uploaded image.

RARohan Ashik · 1 min read

Technology

How blockchain verification works for digital credentials

What it actually means to anchor a credential on a blockchain, what it proves, and what it does not.

RARohan Ashik · 1 min read

News

Skills-Based Hiring Is Overtaking Degrees, and How AI Is Accelerating It

Skills-based hiring adoption jumped to 70% of employers in 2026, and AI is the reason why. What HR leaders, universities, and government skilling bodies need to do next, with 2026 data.

JIJavid Ibrahim · 4 min read

News

Fake certificates are easy to make. Here is how issuers make them easy to catch

Credential fraud costs employers and devalues real qualifications. Four defences that make a forged certificate easy to spot.

Hyperstack Team · 1 min read

Education

Micro-credentials: what they are and how to design a programme around them

Short, focused and stackable. How to scope a micro-credential, set criteria that mean something, and build pathways learners want to finish.

RARohan Ashik · 1 min read

Healthcare

Digital CPD certificates for healthcare training providers

Clinicians need CPD records they can produce at revalidation. What a digital CPD certificate should show, and how to move off paper.

Hyperstack Team · 1 min read

Education

Digital badges or digital certificates: which should you issue?

They are not competitors. When to use a certificate, when to use a badge, and when to issue both.

RARohan Ashik · 1 min read

Business

What happens after you send a credential: measuring views, shares and verifications

Issuing is the start, not the end. The numbers that show whether your credentials are working for learners and for your brand.

RARohan Ashik · 1 min read

Healthcare

Making hospital training records verifiable

Mandatory training, agency staff and audits all depend on records that are hard to check. How verifiable credentials can help.

RARohan Ashik · 1 min read

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