eIDAS2

eIDAS 2.0, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1183, is the European Union’s updated digital-identity framework. It entered into force on 20 May 2024 and amends the original eIDAS Regulation (910/2014), which governed electronic identification and trust services across the bloc. The headline of the update is the European Digital Identity Wallet — the EUDI Wallet — a state-backed credential holder that every member state must make available to its residents.

The wallet is the part that matters for verification. It holds government-issued credentials and releases only the attributes a verifier requested, signed by the issuer, so the verifier validates a cryptographic attestation rather than receiving the underlying document. This is the same selective-disclosure-plus-signing model that the mDL uses, and the EUDI Wallet specifications explicitly support age verification as a core use case. The wallet can return an age-tier attestation, such as 18+: yes, without disclosing the date of birth, keeping the amount of PII that crosses the wire to a minimum.

The timeline is the reason eIDAS 2.0 belongs on every age-and-identity roadmap. Member states must make a certified EUDI Wallet available to residents by 24 December 2026, and from late 2027 designated relying parties that require strong user authentication — banks, payment providers, and other regulated services — must accept recognised wallets. For online businesses that gate access by age or identity, that means a standardized, cryptographically attestable credential becomes broadly available across 27 jurisdictions on a fixed schedule, rather than the patchwork of document-scan and data-broker checks that preceded it.

For an integrator, the practical consequence mirrors the mDL story: fewer fields touched, a smaller attack surface, and a verification result that is attestable to a regulator. The trade-off is also the same — coverage ramps over the rollout window rather than arriving all at once — so production flows treat the EUDI Wallet as one credential among several and fall back to document scan where a wallet is not yet present. Stile’s job is to abstract the difference, so a merchant integrates once and accepts whichever credential the resident presents. The US state compliance hub covers the parallel American picture; eIDAS2 is the EU-wide counterpart on a single statutory clock.