OpenCerts, part of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative, enables issuance and validation of tamper-resistant academic certificates in a convenient and reliable manner.

OpenCerts is built using OpenAttestation standard and more particularly OpenCerts follows the Verifiable Document standard.

One might be confuse to understand the difference between OpenAttestation and OpenCerts:

OpenAttestation is a standard that helps to create Verifiable Document.
OpenCerts is a specific implementation, using OpenAttestation, whose purpose is to provide institutions a way to create Verifiable Certificates.

Starting with OpenCerts

As OpenCerts is built using OpenAttestation standards, the best place to start playing with OpenCerts is to follow instructions about starting with Verifiable Document on OpenAttestation documentation.

We strongly recommend people not familiar with OpenCerts to start by reading OpenAttestation documentation.

Please note that OpenCerts provides it's own portal to create document store and issue documents available at https://admin.opencerts.io/.

After reading the documentation, you can head up to the next part.