Sun 9 Aug 2026

eIDAS 2.0 requires all 27 EU member states to offer digital identity wallets to approximately 450 million citizens by December 2026 — the largest mandatory deployment of sovereign cryptographic identity infrastructure ever attempted. As of August 2026, no member state has completed full deployment, and the relying-party infrastructure (systems that would actually accept wallet-based verification) remains underdeveloped across the bloc. Mandatory acceptance does not take effect until 2027, meaning the regulation will likely produce wallets that cannot yet be used for their primary purpose at the point of deadline. The gap between legislative timelines and infrastructure readiness is measurable in real time through each member state's deployment metrics, making this one of the few large-scale sovereign infrastructure transitions where the trajectory can be tracked month by month rather than assessed only in hindsight.

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