EUDI Wallet Status, August 2026: Available, Testable, or Neither

Every EU member state must make a wallet available by 24 December 2026. That is four months away. The honest summary is that the deadline will be met unevenly, that no wallet anywhere has been certified, and that a business building wallet integrations now should start with the schemes it can actually work against rather than the largest markets. This is a scheme-by-scheme picture, dated and sourced, current as of August 2026. 

The one fact that applies everywhere

No EU Digital Identity Wallet has been certified. Not one, in any member state.

This is not a national failure. The certification scheme itself does not exist in final form. ENISA is still building it, and the draft candidate scheme went to public consultation at version 0.4, closing on 30 April 2026. ENISA signed a two-year contribution agreement with the Commission in February 2026 to support that work.

So when a country says its wallet is live, it means a production app exists. It does not mean a certified EUDI wallet exists. Both statements can be true at once, and the distinction matters for anyone planning a compliance timeline rather than a product launch.

Where you can test something today

This is the useful division, because a relying party cannot do anything with an announcement.

Germany. The EUDI Wallet Deutschland sandbox, run by SPRIND under the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs, is the most exercised environment in Europe. According to the German government's own parliamentary response, it ran 115 organisations across 150 use cases in six months and identified relying party onboarding as the bottleneck. Germany's national launch is set for 2 January 2027, after the December deadline.

France. France Identité is a live production app with over 4.5 million users as of July 2026, according to the Ministère de l'Intérieur. Citizens already use it for FranceConnect login, digital ID and driving licence, online voting proxies, and since June 2026 for check-in and boarding at every French airport. Certification is still in progress.

Italy. The IT-Wallet test environment opened to public administrations in May 2026 and was extended to private wallet providers, announced by the Department for Digital Transformation on 23 July 2026. Access runs through the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, and the environment uses fictitious data only. The ecosystem will combine a public wallet inside the IO app, built by PagoPA, with private wallets from market operators. Undersecretary Alessio Butti put digital document activations in IO at 12 million over the previous year and a half. Full public availability waits on two implementing decrees, already signed, pending publication in the Gazzetta Ufficiale.

Denmark. AltID went into production on 3 June 2026. Denmark also operates a relying party registry, though it is a national registry rather than an eIDAS 2.0 register.

Norway. Not an EU member state, but worth knowing about. Digdir runs a national wallet sandbox open to Norwegian public and private organisations, covering issuance and consumption of verifiable credentials, and it accommodates both identity wallets and business wallets. It connects to other countries through the WE BUILD large scale pilot.

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Testing these through Hovi. Our playground lets you try wallet flows without building anything first. Beyond that, we connect you into the German EUDI Wallet Deutschland sandbox and the France Identité ecosystem directly, so you can build and run real issuance and verification flows against live government test environments rather than a mock. That work carries over when the registers open, because the formats and protocols do not change. 

What the pattern actually shows

Three things follow from the scheme-by-scheme view.

Availability and usability are different milestones. A member state can meet the December 2026 obligation with a wallet that no business can yet accept, because acceptance depends on relying party registration, and no eIDAS 2.0 relying party register has opened anywhere. We covered what that registration involves in our guide to what a fintech needs before it can verify wallet credentials.

Testing access is the real ranking. Germany, France, Italy, Denmark and Norway have environments you can work against now. Most other schemes have announcements, developer repositories, or closed pilots. For planning purposes, a public sandbox is worth more than a launch date. Our playground lets you try wallet flows straight away, and we connect you into the German EUDI Wallet Deutschland sandbox and the France Identité ecosystem directly, so you are building against real government test environments rather than a mock. 

Certification is the long pole. Sweden's published target of 2029 tells you the direction. Certification will arrive after availability, in most places by years rather than months, and the acceptance obligation for regulated sectors lands in between.

What a Businesses should do with this

Sequence markets by testability, not by size. Your largest European market may be the one you can do least with today. The countries with open sandboxes are where your integration work produces something you can actually run.

Do not wait for certification to build. The formats are harmonised, the protocols are fixed, and the mandatory attribute set is the same across schemes. We set out what varies and what does not in 27 member states, 27 wallets. Work built against the German or French environments carries over.

Separate your compliance timeline from your product timeline. The acceptance obligation for financial services and the practical availability of wallets in your markets are two different curves. Planning against one will leave you exposed on the other.

Decide early whether you register directly or work through an intermediary. That decision shapes how much per-country variance you handle yourself, and it is easier to make before you have built anything. We covered the trade-offs in EUDI intermediaries.

How Hovi helps

Hovi works across the Nordics and Baltics, and already operates inside two of the ecosystems moving fastest.  

In the France Identité EUDI ecosystem and the German EUDI Wallet Deutschland sandbox, we can help you integrate and verify against these test wallets. You can build user onboarding and KYC identity verification flows using Person Identification Data and age verification credentials, and issue Electronic Attestation of Attributes credentials into wallet units across the full credential lifecycle.

We presented live in Paris at the France Identité event EUDIW Unfold #3, running verification demos with the France Identité digital wallet, built on the Hovi platform. Watch the full demo.

We also tested against ETSI TS 119 472-1 at the ETSI EAA Plugtests, covering SD-JWT VC and ISO/IEC 18013-5 across several government and private wallet providers.

Hovi gives you the orchestration layer to integrate with EUDI schemes and build your use cases at scale and connect with all 27 member state EUDI Wallets  Talk to us about your EUDI Wallet Integration Strategy.. 

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