Blog
Notes from the infrastructure layer.
Technical writing and positioning notes on verifiable credentials, public-chain anchoring, Open Badges 3.0, and the open standards LearnCoin builds on.
- Positioning
Credentials that outlive the platform
Ten years in EdTech watching the same pattern repeat — credentials that die with the institution that issued them. Here's the piece of infrastructure the open web should always have had, and why it can finally ship now.
Aharon Acosta6 min read - Positioning
Why LearnCoin anchors on Base, not Bitcoin
Credly's Pearson lock-in and Blockcerts' Bitcoin origins both point somewhere LearnCoin deliberately didn't go. The credential-anchoring decision is an economics-and-ecosystem decision, not a cryptography one.
LearnCoin8 min read - Standards
Open Badges 3.0 vs 2.0 — what changes for institutions
Every OB 2.0 badge issued today will be migrated eventually. Here's what the 3.0 data model gets right, what Credly and Accredible are doing about it, and why the window to differentiate on OB 3.0 is closing.
LearnCoin7 min read - Positioning
Per-verification billing is a trust violation
Some credential platforms charge the verifier — or quietly throttle verifications — for every check of a credential. This breaks the basic promise of what a credential is for. We wrote it into our terms.
LearnCoin6 min read