A wallet provider is the organisation that provides an EU Digital Identity Wallet solution to users. It can be the member state itself, a body the member state mandates, or an independent provider the member state recognises. Its wallet has to be certified before it is offered.
Legal termReviewed 7 October 2026
Inside the wallet, which belongs to the user and is under their control.
Issuer
Signs credentials: a member state, university, bank or employer
Issuance
EUDI Wallet
Belongs to the user, who decides what to share
Presentation
Relying party
The service that requests and checks the data
Trust layer: who is allowed to sign, and is it still valid?
Rules: the law and technical framework behind it all
The wallet provider builds and runs the wallet solution: the app the user sees, which the regulation calls the wallet instance, and the secure cryptographic application and device that protect the user’s keys. Each user gets their own wallet unit, a unique configuration of that solution.
It also vouches for its wallets. During issuance, the Wallet Unit Attestation from the provider lets PID and attestation providers confirm they are issuing into a genuine, certified wallet unit, and the provider can revoke a wallet unit that is lost or compromised.
Member states notify their wallet providers to the Commission, which publishes the list. A relying party does not integrate with wallet providers one by one. Every certified wallet speaks the same protocols, which is what lets one integration work across countries.
Defined in
Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 Art. 5a(2) and 5a(18); Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2980 Art. 2 and Annex II; ARF Annex 1
Your users will arrive with wallets from many providers. The provider vouching for each wallet unit is why you can trust a wallet you have never seen, without a contract with every provider.
Authbound handles the protocols, formats, trust lists and revocation checks behind these terms. See what people build with them.
