Compliance & Regulation
January 2026: UK Confirms Voluntary Digital ID as European Wallet Infrastructure Advances
January 2026 opened with the UK government confirming that digital identity will remain voluntary, while simultaneously accelerating the infrastructure that makes it work. The GOV.UK Wallet now has over 15,000 veterans using the Digital Veteran Card, Companies House estimates 6-7 million individuals will need identity verification by November 2026, and the DVS Trust Framework faces its first major certification transition deadline on 31st March. Meanwhile, the EU published Architecture Reference Framework version 2.4.0 with 11 months remaining until the Member State wallet deployment deadline, and Ireland announced a 2,000-person digital wallet pilot for Q1 2026.
Technical
Debug Mode in Vidos Authorizer Tester: See Exactly What Happened
If your team is testing credential verification flows, Debug Mode is a practical upgrade to your existing process. You still run the same scenarios, but now with visibility into the full Tester-Authorizer exchange.
Rob De Feo
February 17, 2026
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4 min read
Technical
Testing with the EUDI Wallet
Custom wallet builds are necessary today, but they're a temporary solution to a transitional problem. The EUDI test wallet removes the friction of building and configuring your own wallet, letting you focus on developing and testing verifiable credential flows while the ecosystem develops the registration infrastructure.
Rob De Feo
February 13, 2026
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4 min read