Without organisation wallets not much will happen for citizens - and not enough for AI-agents

Key takeaways from the Netherlands and Germany

By Carsten Stöcker: 

• "Regulatory Backbone — EUBW supports eIDAS 2.0, GDPR, CSRD, and data space frameworks, ensuring verifiable business identities and access control. 
• Cybersecurity & Cyber Warfare Resilience — Strengthens Zero Trust security, mitigating risks of fraud, identity theft, and cyber warfare attacks on critical infrastructure and supply chains.
• Data Spaces & Energy Data Convergence — Ensures secure authentication and authorization across federated data spaces, such as Catena-X, Manufacturing-X, and energy data-X (ed-X). The paper presents an in-depth analysis of an EUBW and Energy Data Space case study, highlighting its impact on trusted data exchange in a critical infrastructure sector.
• Value Proposition for Businesses — Simplifies identity verification, regulatory compliance, and secure data exchange, reducing operational costs, fraud risks, and inefficiencies in finance, supply chains, and cross-border transactions.
• Key Requirements — The paper outlines technical, security, and operational requirements necessary for scalable, interoperable, and high-assurance business identity management.
• Use Cases — Enables B2B Use Cases, Digital Product Passports (DPPs), digital contract signing, data space authentication, Industry 4.0automation, and critical infrastructure protection.
• Agentic AI — Establishes trust, security, compliance, and accountability in autonomous systems and enterprise AI agent solutions.
• Higher Adoption Potential — Enterprises require trusted digital identity solutions, making EUBW a business necessity rather than an optional tool.
• Strategic Competitiveness — Enhances cross-border trade, regulatory efficiency, cybersecurity, and EU industrial sovereignty.
• Business Opportunity — Gain a competitive edge in the digital economy by starting the EUBW transition early and focusing on high value niche use cases."

But the public sectors must take wallets in use among the first. Otherwise the walletintegration to own issuing and verifying backends will not start in time. Besides changes in work processes are known to be slow. 

High time to see the crucial role there and also save costs to lower the tax pressure and release work force from routines to productive work and learning what ID+AI will bring.