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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

March 24, 2025 in Blog

Save The Date: Global Digital Collaboration July 1-2, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland

The OpenWallet Foundation, along with 22 other organizations across the open source, standards development and regulatory ecosystems, is co-convening the two-day Global Digital Collaboration, an in-person event in Geneva, Switzerland…
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March 3, 2025 in Blog

Wallet Interop SIG: Test Suites Deep Dive

At last week's Wallet Interoperability SIG, Patrick St-Louis shared his presentation, "Test-suites deep dive: An overview of the evolving interoperability and conformance landscape for digital identity". You can check out…
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February 25, 2025 in Blog

OpenID4VC, DCQL and OpenID Federation: Three new fundamental TypeScript projects incubated at OpenWallet Foundation

Thanks to Credo Maintainer Timo Glastra for sharing this great overview of these new, important projects. At the first Technical Advisory Council meeting of 2025 three new lab projects were…
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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