Becoming a EUDI Wallet relying party is the part of eIDAS 2.0 that lands on engineering teams, and it is the part that has had the least attention. By 24 December 2026, every member state must make a compliant European Digital Identity Wallet available to its citizens and residents.
Every EU member state must make a compliant European Digital Identity Wallet available by 24 December 2026, and regulated companies must accept it twelve months later. This guide covers what organisations have to decide, build and register before those dates, written from the perspective of a team that has maintained national eID middleware since 2011.
Most conversations about digital identity start from an assumption that’s rarely said out loud: that internet connectivity is stable, that service counters are close by, that population density turns infrastructure distribution into a problem solved by default. That’s a reasonable assumption in many European contexts. It simply doesn’t hold for a country like Cabo Verde — ten islands scattered across the Atlantic, where the distance between a citizen and the nearest public service can mean a boat trip, not a walk into town.
Two days. Dozens of conversations. One consistent theme: the distance between policy ambition and operational reality is still significant and the organisations closing that gap are the ones worth watching.
Caixa Mágica Software had the pleasure of participating in Identity Week Europe 2025 in Amsterdam. One of Europe’s leading events dedicated to digital identity, biometrics and trust technologies.