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The Mission

The Open Wallet Foundation (hosted at the Linux Foundation) brings developers, standard development organizations and academia together to facilitate global interoperability of verifiable credentials, by establishing best practices and through collaborative development of digital wallet technology to enable standards-based OSS components that issuers, and wallet providers can rely on.

The OWF aims to set best practices for digital wallet technology through collaboration on standards-based OSS components that issuers, wallet providers and relying parties can use to bootstrap implementations that preserve user choice, security and privacy.

Latest News & Blog Posts

February 5, 2025 in Blog

Credo: Heading Into 2025, Releases 0.5 and 0.6, and How We’re Becoming a Central Player in Global Interoperability

Thanks to the Credo Team for sharing this update with the community. As we go into the new year, it’s a great time to look back at what Credo has…
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January 22, 2025 in Announcements

OpenWallet Forum Successfully Hosts First High-Level Panel Event on Digital Trust and Global Interoperability

Event Took Place on January 22, 2025, in Davos, Switzerland, Fostering Global Collaboration on Key Interoperability Challenges through Open Standards DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – January 22, 2025 – The OpenWallet Forum…
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December 20, 2024 in Blog

OWF Newsletter Issue #3 (late December Holiday wishes and updates)

Happy Holidays! The OpenWallet Foundation team would like to wish you and yours Happy Holidays and a Happy New Years! We had some last minute news and wanted to end…
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RESEARCH REPORT

Why the World Needs an Open Source Wallet Right Now

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Why the World Needs an Open Source Digital Wallet Right Now