POK and Sovra: to build digital trust infrastructure

POK and Sovra: a strategic alliance to build digital trust infrastructure

A collaboration that connects educational credentials, digital identity, and the public sector to reduce fragmentation and advance toward an interoperable ecosystem based on open standards.

Digital trust as a structural challenge

Over the past decade, digitalization has profoundly transformed education, public services, and the way people interact with institutions. However, digital trust—understood as the ability to verify identities, credentials, and attributes securely and in a reusable way—has not evolved at the same pace.

Today, diplomas, certificates, digital identities, and verification systems are often developed as isolated solutions that are difficult to integrate with one another. The result is a fragmented ecosystem, with high verification costs, duplicated efforts, and constant friction for both people and institutions.

A common-sense alliance: connecting what is currently separated

In this context, POK and Sovra announce a strategic alliance with a clear objective: to connect educational credentials and digital identity within a shared trust infrastructure, designed for real-world use and concrete institutional contexts.

This collaboration does not seek to create an additional layer of complexity or introduce unnecessary technology, but rather to bring together two complementary infrastructures that already operate in real environments and share a common vision of digital trust.

Sovra’s contribution to digital identity infrastructure

Sovra develops decentralized digital identity infrastructure for governments, public institutions, and institutional ecosystems. Its technology enables the issuance, verification, and reuse of digital credentials based on open standards, with privacy by design, institutional sovereignty, and user control.

Sovra’s solutions are already implemented in real public-sector contexts, enabling use cases such as digital identities, licenses, permits, verifiable documents, and access to public services. All of this operates within an infrastructure designed to scale trust, reduce friction, and support critical operations.

Sovra enables institutions and individuals to issue, verify, and use digital identity credentials with sovereignty and privacy.

Its technology is already active in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, where more than 8 million citizens access digital public services and manage credentials in real institutional contexts.

In the City of Buenos Aires alone, more than 700,000 people use the open-source QuarkID protocol (co-created by Diego Fernández, CEO and co-founder of Sovra) to securely store and prove data derived from official government documents.

This capability is delivered through Sovra’s Digital Identity Stack, a set of products designed to connect governments, institutions, and individuals within an interoperable infrastructure:

SovraGov
A no-code platform to digitize public services, design workflows, issue credentials, and modernize government processes without the need to develop smart contracts.

SovraID
A standards-based engine for the issuance and verification of digital identities (DIDs), verifiable credentials, and attestations using zero-knowledge technologies across different ecosystems.

SovraWallet
A non-custodial wallet that allows individuals to manage their digital identity and prove information without exposing unnecessary personal data.

SovraChain
A Validium built on Ethrex, the Ethereum execution client developed by LambdaClass, designed for digital identity verification at scale, with privacy, composability, and high performance. This Layer 2 underpins the rest of the stack and already has an active beta testnet.

POK’s role in the educational credentials ecosystem

POK is the leading platform for issuing verifiable digital educational credentials and microcredentials, used by universities, educational institutions, and training programs across the region.

Its technology enables the certification of learning outcomes, competencies, and academic achievements through portable, interoperable credentials designed to accompany individuals throughout their educational and professional lives. POK works alongside institutions seeking to modernize how knowledge is certified and to connect education with real opportunities, beyond a single system or territory.

How the collaboration between POK and Sovra works

The alliance between POK and Sovra is designed as a bidirectional integration model, where both platforms reinforce each other and expand their reach.

In projects and deployments where Sovra is present—especially in governmental or institutional contexts—POK’s solutions for the education sector will be offered. This will allow universities and training institutions to issue verifiable educational credentials directly integrated with digital identity infrastructure.

Conversely, within POK’s institutional implementations and strategic relationships, Sovra will contribute its digital identity infrastructure and verification services for use cases related to the public sector. In this way, educational credentials cease to exist as isolated objects and become part of a broader, more coherent identity ecosystem.

Reducing fragmentation as a shared objective

Today, education, digital identity, and public services often advance in parallel, without a common foundation of trust. This leads to credentials that are not recognized across systems, identities that cannot be reused, and verification processes that are repeated over and over again.

The alliance between POK and Sovra seeks to reverse this scenario, advancing toward an ecosystem with greater interoperability, increased credential portability over time, and verifiable trust based on open standards. The focus is not on imposing closed solutions, but on building shared infrastructure that allows trust to scale sustainably.

People at the center, institutions connected

Connecting educational credentials with digital identity is not merely a technical improvement. It is a structural transformation that directly impacts people’s experience, enabling them to use their credentials across different institutional, educational, and public contexts without unnecessary friction.

At the same time, institutions benefit from operating on reliable verification mechanisms, aligned with standards and designed for an increasingly complex digital environment. This contributes to restoring legitimacy, transparency, and efficiency in service delivery.

Looking ahead

In a context where artificial intelligence accelerates fraud, digitalization crosses borders, and people demand greater control over their information, digital trust becomes critical infrastructure.

POK and Sovra share a clear vision: to build real infrastructure for digital trust, connecting education, identity, and the public sector on open standards and with tangible impact on people’s lives.

This alliance represents another step along that path, with a focus on Latin America and regional projection.

👉 More information
https://www.pok.tech
https://www.sovra.io