Identity
did:cheqd
A DID method on the Cheqd blockchain — popular in the Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) ecosystem, used by competitors like Dock.
did:cheqd is a DID method backed by the Cheqd blockchain, a Cosmos-SDK chain purpose-built for verifiable-credential trust infrastructure. Cheqd optimizes for DID registration, DID-linked resource storage (revocation lists, schemas), and payment rails for credential-issuance economics.
did:cheqd is popular with the SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity) ecosystem — Dock, for instance, uses did:cheqd alongside did:web and did:key. The trade-off versus did:web: stronger cryptographic anchoring (DIDs resolve to ledger state rather than an HTTPS document) at the cost of operational dependency on the Cheqd network.
LearnCoin does not use did:cheqd. We chose did:web for operational simplicity and because our trust substrate is already a public blockchain (Base) via MerkleProof2019 anchoring. Adding a second chain dependency for DID resolution would duplicate trust infrastructure without adding verification security.
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