diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oid4vc/model/VerifiableCredential.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oid4vc/model/VerifiableCredential.java
index 22507b7c804c..57ca589f7a70 100644
--- a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oid4vc/model/VerifiableCredential.java
+++ b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/protocol/oid4vc/model/VerifiableCredential.java
@@ -38,8 +38,16 @@
 @JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
 public class VerifiableCredential {
 
+    public static final String VC_CONTEXT_V1 = "https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v1";
+    public static final String VC_CONTEXT_V2 = "https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v2";
+
+    /**
+     * @context: The value of the @context property MUST be an ordered set where the first item is a URL with the
+     * value https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v2. Subsequent items in the ordered set MUST be composed of any
+     * combination of URLs and/or objects, where each is processable as a JSON-LD Context.
+     */
     @JsonProperty("@context")
-    private List<String> context;
+    private List<String> context = new ArrayList<>(List.of(VC_CONTEXT_V1));
     private List<String> type = new ArrayList<>();
     private URI issuer;
     private Date issuanceDate;
@@ -127,4 +135,4 @@ public VerifiableCredential setAdditionalProperties(Map<String, Object> addition
         this.additionalProperties = additionalProperties;
         return this;
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oid4vc/issuance/signing/OID4VCIssuerEndpointTest.java b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oid4vc/issuance/signing/OID4VCIssuerEndpointTest.java
index 5caf35ac9179..b4a086952e5b 100644
--- a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oid4vc/issuance/signing/OID4VCIssuerEndpointTest.java
+++ b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/test/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/oid4vc/issuance/signing/OID4VCIssuerEndpointTest.java
@@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ public void testRequestCredential() {
                     assertNotNull("A valid credential string should have been responded", jsonWebToken);
                     assertNotNull("The credentials should be included at the vc-claim.", jsonWebToken.getOtherClaims().get("vc"));
                     VerifiableCredential credential = objectMapper.convertValue(jsonWebToken.getOtherClaims().get("vc"), VerifiableCredential.class);
+                    assertNotNull("@context is a required VC property", credential.getContext());
+                    assertEquals(1, credential.getContext().size());
+                    assertEquals(VerifiableCredential.VC_CONTEXT_V1, credential.getContext().get(0));
                     assertTrue("The static claim should be set.", credential.getCredentialSubject().getClaims().containsKey("VerifiableCredential"));
                     assertFalse("Only mappers supported for the requested type should have been evaluated.", credential.getCredentialSubject().getClaims().containsKey("AnotherCredentialType"));
                 }));