What governments need to know about Verifiable Credentials
Key takeaways from the OpenID Foundation and World Bank webinar on verifiable credentials The OpenID Foundation was proud to join the World Bank’s Innovation for Service Delivery series for a webinar exploring the growing global momentum behind verifiable credentials (VCs) and digital wallets. The session was aimed at governments as a whole, not just their […]
OIDF welcomes NIST SP 1800-42 and announces new eKYC work item
By Juliana Cafik, Independent Identity Standards & Solutions Architect. Juliana is also a contributor to the OIDF NIST NCCoE Project for mDL and Lead Editor of an extension to the OpenID Foundation’s OIDC4IDA Claims Registration. The NIST NCCoE Mobile Driver’s Licenses (mDL) Project (Special Publication 1800-42) marks a watershed moment for financial sector security, replacing […]
2025: A year worth talking about for the OpenID Foundation
Some years pass quietly. For the OpenID Foundation, 2025 was not one of them. The pace and scale of progress across the OpenID Foundation community this year was remarkable, so remarkable in fact that we felt compelled to bring the 2025 story together in this “Year in Review” report. The story it tells is one […]
AuthZEN: From ‘what is this’ to ‘how do we implement it’
The AuthZEN Working Group shares highlights from Gartner IAM London, including what practitioners’ questions revealed about enterprise readiness. Gartner IAM London in earlier this month brought together enterprise IAM practitioners, analysts, and standards bodies. For the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group, it was a revealing few days. Co-chairs Atul Tulshibagwale, Alex Olivier, and David Brossard […]
Nine countries prove OpenID Federation interoperability
Hands-on testing at TIIME 2026 confirms real world readiness of OpenID Federation across nine implementations. On 13 February 2026, implementers of OpenID Federation – a specification that provides a common framework for organisations to verify and trust one another at scale, without requiring bilateral agreements between every party – gathered in Amsterdam for a hands-on […]
OIDF presents at European Commission’s EUDI Wallets Launchpad 2025
The OpenID Foundation was invited to present at the recent EUDI Wallets Launchpad 2025, a landmark three day community event organized by the European Commission on December 10-12 in Brussels, Belgium. The EUDI Wallets Launchpad 2025 represents a critical milestone for digital identity implementation across the European Union. As the first multi-day testing event of […]
AuthZEN shows enterprise readiness at Gartner IAM Summit
After two years of development, the AuthZEN Working Group reached a significant milestone at this month’s Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit in Grapevine, Texas, with enterprise practitioners signalling clear readiness for implementation. The main AuthZEN session drew nearly 100 attendees whose questions revealed an important shift in market maturity. Rather than asking whether standards […]
OIDF Executive Director Judges G20 TechSprint
The OpenID Foundation is proud to have participated in the 2025 G20 TechSprint – an annual global initiative that brings together innovators to address critical challenges facing central banks and regulators worldwide. This year’s event was a collaboration between the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, under […]
OIDF offers standards roadmap for GENIUS Act
The OpenID Foundation has submitted a comprehensive response to the US Department of the Treasury’s Request for Comment on “Innovative Methods to Detect Illicit Activity Involving Digital Assets” (TREAS-DO-2025-0070-0001), issued under the GENIUS Act. As a technical standards body with deep expertise in APIs and digital identity, the OpenID Foundation welcomes the opportunity to show how […]