Description
You’ll be among the early members of the newly launched ELCA Digital Innovation (EDI) team, contributing to the next generation of Verifiable Credentials (VCs) powered by the Secure Digital Asset (SDA) Registry. This internship sits at the intersection of identity, digital trust, blockchain, and product innovation, and is ideal for technically strong students who also care deeply about the human side of digital identity—how people authenticate, prove who they are, and interact with digital systems safely and seamlessly.
Your mission is to help build a unified infrastructure for digital trust: a system enabling a single wallet to support both custodial credentials (revocable licenses such as tickets or memberships) and self custody assets (transferable digital collectibles, NFTs, and other portable owned-identity artifacts).
You will work on the SDA Registry, which acts as a bridge between traditional issuing systems and blockchain networks. This registry provides tokenization, authentication, signing, revocation, and tamper proof verification at scale—meaning everything you build will be used to power real, high volume, human-centric use cases.
You will collaborate with experts across the ELCA ecosystem—SECUTIX, Digital Agency, Cloud Services, Engineering, Architecture, and Data & AI—and apply EDI’s philosophy of lateral thinking with reliable technology, creatively combining proven identity, blockchain, and fullstack components to build practical trust infrastructure.
This internship is perfect for someone who wants to grow into a technical innovator with product intuition, able to understand not only how digital identity works, but why trustworthy, human-centered identity flows matter.
Objectives
Build and Enhance Verifiable Credential (VC) Flows
• Contribute to the design and implementation of credential issuance, verification, revocation, and lifecycle flows within the SDA Registry.