eIDAS 2.0 is the EU regulation establishing a European Digital Identity Wallet that member states must offer citizens, holding government-recognized credentials usable across the EU for public and private services. For relying parties it creates both an obligation, large platforms must accept it, and an interoperability question: wallet credentials still need binding to live, unforgeable signals at use time.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 puts the obligation on two parties at once: member states must make a wallet available, and certain large platforms must accept it for authentication. That combination is what gives it a different trajectory from earlier identity schemes, which generally lacked a relying-party mandate.
For anyone building against it, the open question is binding. A wallet credential proves an attribute was attested at issuance; whether the person presenting it still controls the channel, the device and the account is a separate check.
The dual obligation is what gives this a different trajectory from earlier identity schemes. Member states must make a wallet available and certain large platforms must accept it, so the scheme does not depend on relying parties adopting it voluntarily, which is where comparable efforts have previously stalled.
For an implementer the near-term work is interoperability rather than philosophy: which credential formats and presentation protocols the wallets actually use, how issuers are discovered and trusted, and what a verifier is required to accept. Those details are settled in implementing acts and technical specifications rather than in the regulation text, and they move.
The open question that does not go away is binding. A wallet credential proves an attribute was attested at issuance and that the wallet holds it; whether the person presenting it still controls the device, the account and the phone line is a separate check, which is the same gap verifiable credentials have in general and the reason live signals remain relevant alongside a wallet.
Presentations are expected to use selective-disclosure formats such as SD-JWT, so a verifier learns only the attributes it asked for.
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