Denmark’s wallet ecosystem is moving fast, with #AltID shipping this June. But as wallets multiply, a critical question remains: Are we building bridges or islands? Kim Nørskov, our CSO, has mapped the current state of eIDAS-aligned wallets in Denmark. The goal of eIDAS 2.0 is much more than just going paperless, but to give citizens control while ensuring every wallet, issuer, and verifier speaks the same language. The Current Landscape: 🔹 AltID: The public sector’s entry point. Focus: PID and age proof. 🔹 e-Wallet (e-Boks): Exploring student IDs and general age verification. 🔹 Partisia ID Wallet: Powering real-world use cases like #VisitorPass for secure reception handling. 🔹 DfG Wallet: Supporting the Data for Good Foundation ecosystem (launching June). The Takeaway: Technology is only as good as its interoperability. For verifiers, the challenge is reading credentials from any compliant wallet without a custom integration for every app. We are moving from data collection to identity orchestration. Are you ready for the shift? Read the full breakdown below. 👇 #eIDAS #DigitalIdentity #DID #Partisia #FintechDK #DataPrivacy
State of eIDAS-aligned wallets in Denmark AltID ships in June. That makes a good moment to map where Denmark's wallet ecosystem actually stands - to see what is available and where we stand with interoperability . The eIDAS wallets are meant to give citizens the ability to: - Hold verifiable information issued by many parties, under a user's keys. - Disclose only what a relying party actually needs. - Wallets can be used across Europe where eIDAS is implemented Done well, this replaces a lot of paper, a lot of point-to-point integrations, and a lot of unnecessary data sharing. One opinion before the inventory. The state-based eIDAS ecosystem is one thing. With the standards now stabilizing and the technology being adopted, there is also room for civil society and private enterprise to use the same plumbing to build parallel ecosystems of data, not dependent on the state solutions, but supplementing it. How trust lists in that space should be governed is an open question, to think about (Frederik Krogsdal Jacobsen, at crypto connect offered analogies from biology on how these ecosystems could evolve). I will not commit the hubris of claiming to know the answer. For now, technical interoperability is the first needed step: None of this works unless every wallet, issuer, and verifier speaks the same standards. When each provider picks its own dialect, we get islands of data. A verifier with no compatible wallets will be lonely. The ecosystem only generates value when issuers populate the wallets and verifiers can read what they get back, without a custom integration per wallet. The current list: #AltID Issuers: DK public sector (more issuers expected to follow but at the earliest in 2028). Credentials: PID, age proof. Verifiers: Age: any verifier following the slightly deviated standard, PID is standards-based, but verifiers must register with the Danish trust framework. e-Wallet Issuers: e-Boks, DTU Credentials: e-Boks ID, age proof, student ID pilot. Verifiers: DTU, others are unknown to me. We have tested and cant make age and e-Boks ID. We are probably doing something wrong e-Boks please help🙂 Partisia ID wallet Issuers: Partisia as a service for Visitorpass customers Credentials: Visitorpass credential (more to come) Verifiers: Visitorpass customers, E.g. Telesikring reception DfG wallet (Based on Partisia SDK, June) Issuers: Everyone who wishes to be part of the DATA for GOOD ecosystem Credentials: To be announced. Verifiers: To be announced. Wallets will multiply. The question is whether verifiers can read credentials from any compliant wallet without a custom integration per app. I know there are a lot of other wallet providers out there, here I focused on the Danish, please let me know if I missed a wallet, or other misinterpretation! If you are a verifier working out which wallets to integrate against, drop a comment or DM me Data for Good Foundation e-Boks Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance Partisia