In a recent webinar, we spoke with Mirko Mollik, Identity Architect at SPRIND (Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation), to unpack how Germany is approaching the rollout of the EUDI ecosystem. The conversation went beyond high-level regulation and focused on the realities of implementation: how wallets will be certified, how issuers and verifiers will onboard, how privacy is enforced in practice, and which standards are truly mandatory.
(00:00) – Introduction
(02:15) – SPRIND’s role in building Germany’s European Digital Identity ecosystem.
(04:37) – Why Germany is contributing directly to standards and allowing multiple wallets.
(09:24) – Key lessons from the EUDI Large-Scale Pilots and interoperability challenges.
(11:52) – What organizations should do now that the pilots are ending.
(16:10) – What a PID is and why it’s the most valuable credential.
(18:02) – Qualified vs non-qualified credentials and issuer liability.
(24:52) – How GDPR shapes identity requests, pseudonyms, and user consent.
(25:21) – Why verifier registration exists and how transparency is enforced.
(27:58) – Why credential exchange is peer-to-peer and privacy-preserving.
(31:52) – Germany’s EUDI sandbox, who can access it, and the rollout timeline.
(33:28) – How cross-border verification works with national registries.
(35:00) – Trust lists, X.509 certificates, and EU-wide verification.
(45:18) – Rulebooks and how credential trust is defined in practice.
(49:09) – Age verification without range proofs and cryptographic agility.
(57:41) – How big tech wallets may participate in the EUDI ecosystem.
(1:03:04) – Why DIDs and DIDComm are not mandated in the EUDI baseline.
(1:08:07) – Closing thoughts on EUDI’s impact on digital identity in Europe.
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