In December 2025, the OpenID Foundation announced the forthcoming launch of self-certification for OpenID for Verifiable Credentials. Since then, the OpenID Foundation has been working to confirm the organisations who will help shape the next phase - a globally recognised independent conformance test program. 

Today, we are pleased to introduce the organisations that will play a key role in ensuring digital identity implementations meet the highest standards of quality and interoperability worldwide. They are BixeLab, FIDO Alliance, Inc., Fime, Raidiam and TrustID Solutions. Additional testing service providers are currently going through the onboarding process and will be announced as the program progresses.

Ted Dunstone, CEO and Founder of BixeLab, said: "These organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the OpenID Foundation, committing to collaborate as testing service providers in the forthcoming independent conformance test program. At BixeLab, we see firsthand how independent testing underpins trust in digital identity systems. The OpenID Foundation’s initiative is a significant step in scaling consistent, high-quality conformance testing globally, supporting more reliable and interoperable deployments.”

Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director and CEO of FIDO Alliance, Inc., said: “OpenID Foundation’s work has been instrumental in advancing interoperable identity standards, and we’re pleased to support the next phase of its conformance program by serving as an Approved Testing Service Provider. Expanding access to independent testing helps implementers efficiently demonstrate conformance with OpenID specifications while strengthening interoperability across the identity ecosystem. FIDO’s experience operating global certification programs will help ensure this testing is delivered with the rigor and scale needed to support growing market adoption.”

Ralph Bragg, CTO and Co-Founder of Raidiam, said: “The OpenID Foundation’s new independent conformance test program is a big step forward for the digital identity community. At Raidiam, this is work we know inside out - we’ve been running production‑grade conformance services for years, across some of the largest open banking and open finance ecosystems worldwide. Building on the Foundation’s own methodologies, we’ve extended those frameworks to deliver hundreds of thousands of functional test cases - including nearly half a billion test executions for Open Finance Brazil in 2025. We’ve proven what true scale and assurance look like in live production settings - and we’re excited to bring that experience to help set a new global standard for digital identity.”

Tomas Horvath, Managing Partner of TrustID Solutions, said: "In our vision of the future, digital identity ecosystems will evolve rapidly over the coming years, reshaping trust infrastructure globally. As these ecosystems expand, sustaining trust and true interoperability will depend on wallet solutions and relying party verifiers remaining secure, stable, and continuously aligned with open standards. Scalable and trustworthy conformance testing is therefore going to be foundational infrastructure for digital trust.At TrustID Solutions, we have spent the past year developing a robust validation framework to address this need, and we are proud and excited to join forces with the OpenID Foundation to elevate compliance testing to an international level."

A framework built for scale

The participation of these organisations comes at a crucial time. Digital wallets, verifiable credentials, and open data are reshaping how governments, businesses, and individuals interact online. Across 38 jurisdictions, including the EU, UK, US, and the Balkans, digital identity and open data ecosystems are converging on the same core OpenID Foundation specifications: OpenID for Verifiable Presentation, OpenID for Verifiable Credential Issuance and the High Assurance Interoperability Profile.

The scale of this convergence is significant. With 60 countries already pursuing digital identity initiatives and 90 pursuing open data programs, it is clear that these specifications have become the framework of choice for governments and organisations that require interoperability, security, and operational scale across complex public–private environments.

A proven foundation 

The OpenID Foundation's existing self-certification service has already facilitated more than 4,500 successful implementations across Brazil, the UK, Australia, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Proving interoperability in practice is central to the OpenID Foundation’s work. In 2025, the OpenID Foundation hosted 15 interoperability events spanning four specification families - OID4VC, OpenID Federation, Shared Signals, and AuthZEN. They demonstrated these specifications work reliably across diverse implementations and real world conditions. 

As adoption scales, so too must the conformance infrastructure that supports it. The OpenID Foundation is launching an internationally recognized independent conformance test program in Q2 2026 to set a global standard for quality and interoperability. Complementing the existing self-certification service, it will give ecosystems a conformance pathway that fits their local regulatory and sovereignty requirements.

About the OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, OAuth2 - the FAPI standard for interoperable, high security - has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue that enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate. Find out more at openid.net.

To learn more about conformance testing and self-certification, please visit the OpenID Foundation’s FAQ section.