Northern Block

Northern Block is a Canadian technology provider delivering digital trust infrastructure for governments, enterprises, and industries. Founded in 2017, the company helps ecosystems issue, verify, and govern digital credentials using open standards, open-source code, and self-sovereign identity principles. Our flagship platform, Orbit Enterprise, enables organisations to issue credentials from authoritative systems of record, verify them with flexible APIs and mobile tools, and publish governance-backed authority through trust registry infrastructure as a service. Orbit is modular, API-first, and wallet-agnostic, supporting leading credential profiles (W3C Verifiable Credentials, SD-JWT, ISO/IEC 18013-5 mDL/mDoc, and AnonCreds) and exchange protocols (OpenID4VCI/OID4VP, DIDComm, and Aries). Northern Block’s track record includes supporting Canadian provincial governments representing over 85% of the population, modernising sustainability reporting in the mining sector with operators and supply chains, advancing credentialing in the real estate ecosystem, and collaborating with partners such as IATA to strengthen interoperability in global travel. By combining technology, governance, and standards, Northern Block empowers ecosystems to build secure, citizen-centred digital identity solutions that enable safer and more trusted interactions in a rapidly changing world.