Two Costa Rican students, Sebastian and Daniel, are building ACTA, an identity and verifiable credentials layer for Stellar. The team recently secured SDF funding to develop a native decentralized identifier (DID) for the network, addressing critical infrastructure Stellar lacked. Mainnet live since January, ACTA offers API, SDK, and DApp interfaces, with real clients already using the platform for credential issuance and verification.
Dev Diaries features ACTA, an identity and verifiable credentials infrastructure for Stellar built by two Costa Rican students who won the Stellar Hacks scale track. The platform lets institutions and startups issue, verify, and trace verifiable credentials on-chain. After pivoting from an education-sector focus, ACTA now serves builders and startups, with Interactuar, a Colombian microcredit company, already using it for traceability. The four-person team recently secured SDF funding to develop a native decentralized identifier (DID) for Stellar—critical infrastructure other networks have but Stellar lacked. They are also building mass issuance capabilities and consulting with OpenZeppelin on security standards and credentialing compliance. Mainnet launch occurred in January 2026.
