Verifiable Digital Credentials

A session at Identiverse 2025 which explores the nuanced dynamics between passkeys and verifiable digital credentials, and their technological foundations across usability, privacy, trust models, and ecosystems with the goal of answering whether passkeys and verifiable digital credentials are friends or foes—and how these technologies might collaboratively shape the future of secure, user-centric digital identity systems.

Topics # At TPAC 2023, we introduced the topic of digital identity wallets and their use on the web, and asked the community for use cases, concerns, and asked browser engine maintainers to express interest in this work.