how can i check the identities i created on infura using the nodejs veramo api

[anotherrohit]

i am looking to create identifiers using the nodejs example from veramo docs. I was able to create and verify the ids in the app, but how can i confirm they were created on eth? Infura does not show these ids.

[mirceanis]

I'm assuming the identifiers you created are of the did:ethr type.
The did:ethr protocol does not involve any transaction when creating new ids. This is by design, to reduce the burden on the ethereum network, to make onboarding free, and and to allow the use-case of disposable identifiers.

These identifiers don't appear anywhere on-chain until you try to modify the corresponding DID document using methods like didManagerAddKey(), didManagerAddService(), etc...
You will notice that these methods require gas to complete. This is because any transaction on a public ethereum network needs to be funded. The did:ethr protocol supports meta-transactions, in which case funding can come from a 3rd party, but this is not implemented at the moment in veramo.

You can find out more by going through the ethr DID method spec.

Note that did:ethr is only one of the possible DID providers usable in veramo.
There is also a did:web provider and the next feature version will have a did:key implementation.
There are plans to add did:ion and did:elem providers as well and, of course, DID provider plugins could be implemented by other parties, which we would gladly showcase.

edit:
corrected didManager* method names

[anotherrohit]

@mirceanis I am trying to create a registration page with updates of personal attributes while creating DIDs and JWT and also a resolver that can validate the did with the JWT created above. Can you suggest what blocks of code I can use from the examples? I scoured through the documentation but am still lost on how to implement this requirement.

[mirceanis]

I'm not sure I understand, so let me try to rephrase your requirements.
Do you want to have a way for people to express personal attributes as verifiable credentials?
In that case, I suppose each person would be the controller of a DID and then every attribute could be expressed as a JWT verifiable credential signed by that DID.

Is this what you are looking to create?

[anotherrohit]

@mirceanis that is exactly correct! I want people to express personal attributes as verifiable credentials. How best to implement this use case?

[mirceanis]

You are right, it seems that the guides on the docs site don't mention actually creating some credentials.
There is an issue about that missing guide here: uport-project/veramo-website#44

Until that is fixed, you can look through the integration tests to get a rough idea.

• configure an agent using all the plugins, including the one for credential creation
• use the agent to create a DID
• use the agent to create a credential signed by that DID

I hope this helps

[jasheal]

Also relates to this PR uport-project/veramo-website#48