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FIDES

FIDES, in full FIDES - Accelerating Digital Trust, is a European community of organisations working on digital trust in practice: it catalogues what is actually running on verifiable credentials, and publishes the interoperability profiles that let those implementations talk to each other.

Its most visible parts are the Ecosystem Explorer, a public catalogue of live digital identity use cases and the wallets behind them; the Blue Pages, a decentralised catalogue in which organisations and the credentials they accept can be looked up; and the Community Awards, voted on with a credential in a wallet rather than an account and a password. FIDES also maintains DIIP, the interoperability profile that pins down which existing specifications a conformant wallet has to implement. Alongside it, FIDES Labs is a Dutch initiative where public and private parties run pragmatic pilots, among them the e-invoicing and tax-splitting pilots Credenco works on with the Belastingdienst.

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