Issuing to an Organization, Not a Person
24 August 2026 · 2 min read
Personal identity is simple in shape: one person, one wallet, one signature. Organizational identity has no such luxury. An organization acts only through people, so its identity has to be held by several of them at once, usable by none of them alone, and provable to an outsider without any of them handing over a key. That is structurally harder, and the vLEI framework takes the structure seriously.
Multi-sig by construction
Under GLEIF’s Legal Entity vLEI Credential Framework, the credential is held in a multi-signature group controlled by the entity’s Legal Authorized Representatives (LARs). A Designated Authorized Representative (DAR), whose signing authority is verified first, designates at least three LARs; the signing threshold must be at least two, with 2-of-3 the typical shape. Every LAR is individually identity-verified to NIST 800-63A IAL2 or with an accepted national digital identity, and signs a session-unique challenge from their own wallet. The issuing side is doubled too: one QAR issues, a second approves. Even acceptance is collective; the LARs must jointly sign to accept the credential before the credential is theirs.
One ceremony, not a calendar problem
Take that structure literally and you get a scheduling puzzle: several officers, often on different continents, all needed live for verification and signing, for the Legal Entity credential and again for the role credentials for each individual employee that chain to it. The calendar becomes the real bottleneck. Our answer is bundle issuance: the Legal Entity, OOR, and ECR credentials are prepared and distributed in a single ceremony, and the wallet coordinates the multi-signature steps asynchronously, so a signer in another time zone completes their part when they are awake. Keys never leave each signer’s wallet.
Organizational identity is harder than personal identity because organizations are plural. The tooling should absorb that plurality, not push it onto your officers’ calendars. To see a bundle ceremony end to end, talk to an expert.