EBSI

EBSI, the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure, is a network of nodes run by EU member states and the European Commission that anchors cross-border trust for verifiable credentials, such as which issuers and schemas are recognised, without relying on a single central registry.

A relying party or wallet can check EBSI to confirm that a credential schema or an issuer is registered, the same way a Trusted List answers that question under eIDAS 2.0, but for a wider set of use cases than the regulation alone covers, including diplomas, business credentials and self-sovereign identity pilots run before eIDAS 2.0 existed. Each participating country runs its own EBSI node, and the network reaches agreement on the shared registry through those nodes rather than through one central server that any single party could take offline or alter unilaterally. It predates the EUDI Wallet and its trust framework, and several EUDI Wallet pilots, including FIDES Community e-invoicing and business-identity work, use EBSI as their trust registry today, ahead of a formal eIDAS 2.0 Trusted List covering the same schemas. EBSI also underpins several Erasmus+ diploma projects and legal-entity verification pilots that predate the EUDI Wallet programme, which is why it is often described as the bridge between early self-sovereign identity work and the regulated eIDAS 2.0 model. A verifiable credential's issuer can be resolved against EBSI using a decentralised identifier rather than a domain name or a certificate chain, which keeps the check working even if the issuing organisation later changes its web infrastructure.

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