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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 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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February 25, 2025 in Blog

OWF Q1 2025 Town Hall

On January 23, 2025 the OpenWallet Foundation held a Member Town Hall. The team presented the activities and achievements to-date and discussed the planned work for 2025. https://youtu.be/4ythvi8e874
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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