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title: "Getting Started"
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# Getting Started

## Getting Started

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaSAxjoHbw

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The Wallet-API is designed to provide a broad range of API endpoints that let you offer identity wallets to users
capable of handling different keys, DIDs, credential types and facilitate the receipt and presentation of credentials
from various issuers and verifiers using the OIDC4VC protocol standard. Alongside digital identity capabilities, it also
supports the integration of web3 wallets. This feature enables your users to view their tokens from different blockchain
ecosystems like Ethereum, Polygon, and more.

## Supported Standards

|                          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
|:-------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Credential Formats:**  | [SD-JWT VC (IETF)](https://docs.walt.id/concepts/digital-credentials/sd-jwt-vc.md), [W3C VC (v1.1+, v2.0)](https://docs.walt.id/concepts/digital-credentials/verifiable-credentials-w3c.md), [ISO 18013-5 mDL](https://docs.walt.id/concepts/digital-credentials/mdoc-mdl-iso.md) |
| **Credential Exchange:** | [OID4VCI (Draft 11, 13) & OID4VP (Draft 14, 20)](https://docs.walt.id/concepts/data-exchange-protocols.md) , [ISO/IEC 18013-7](https://docs.walt.id/concepts/data-exchange-protocols.md)                                                                                                            |
| **Credential Status:**   | [StatusList2021, Bitstring Status List, Token Status List](https://docs.walt.id/concepts/credential-lifecycle/credential-status-and-revocation.md)                                                                                                                            |
|**Signing Algorithms:**  | ed25519, secp256k1, secp256r1, RSA                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |

## Setup

- [Open-Source](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/setup.md) - Use the wallet API available via the walt.id identity repository.
- [Docker compose quick start](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/home.md#quick-start) - Spin up the wallet API locally together with the other services.
- [Full API reference](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/full-api-reference.md) - Explore all available endpoints via Swagger.

## Core Features and Components

- [User Accounts & Authentication](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/authentication/overview.md) - Manage wallets with username/password or web3 login. Each call requires the wallet ID. Supported blockchain ecosystems are listed [here](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/authentication/web3-auth.md).
- [Key Management](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/key-management/overview.md) - Create and manage keys using RSA, ECDSA and EdDSA algorithms.
- [DID Management](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/did-management/overview.md) - Create and manage DIDs.
- [Credential Exchange](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/credential-exchange/overview.md) - Receive, store and present W3C JWT, SD-JWT VC and mDL credentials.

Checkout the full feature overview [here](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/features).

## Configurations

Use [the feature manager](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/configurations/feature-manager.md) to enable or disable API functionality depending on your use-case.

## Guides

- [Receiving a Credential via OIDC4VCI](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/credential-exchange/guides/accept-w3c-vc-oid4vci.md)
- [Presenting a Requested Credential via OIDC4VP](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/credential-exchange/guides/present-digital-credentials-oid4vp.md)