The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has just published a Working Group Note of Verifiable Credentials Overview.
The Recommendations for Verifiable Credentials like driver's licenses, university degrees and government-issued passports described in this overview document, provides a mechanism to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/group-note-verifiable-credentials-overview/