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How can a VC and an NFT express resource rights together?

Separate a verifiable claim, ownership state and service authorization.

In ArcBlock’s resource-rights design, a DID identifies a participant or resource, a VC carries an issuer’s claim about rights, and an NFT connects that claim with trackable ownership state. The service decides what the evidence permits.

A software entitlement might describe allowed use and a validity period. Verification needs the claim’s source, current state and requested operation, not just the object’s displayed name.

This is not a definition of every NFT. Historical ArcBlock Chain documentation distinguishes issuer, owner and transferrable fields; transfer is not universal. Presentation, transfer, consumption and service authorization are separate operations.

Likewise, a credential’s subject, its holder and an NFT’s owner can have different roles, even when each is identified with a DID.

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Is every NFT automatically a VC that grants resource access?

No. This is an ArcBlock design; credential representation and authorization need specific implementations.