The digital trust ecosystem for Switzerland. The foundation is ready.
swiyu provides the legal and technical rails for verifiable digital credentials — from the state e-ID to private-sector use cases. A shared infrastructure for efficiency, digital sovereignty, and trusted data flows across sectors.
Infrastructure by the Swiss Confederation · AN3 orchestrated by DIDAS.SWISS · Anchored in Swiss law
Issued once. Verified everywhere. No central database.
A verifiable credential is a tamper-proof digital proof — controlled by its holder, instantly checkable by any verifier, without a central authority. swiyu makes this possible at national scale, anchored in Swiss law on SD-JWT VC (IETF) with OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP.
Organisation issues a credential
A bank, employer, university, or public body signs and issues a credential directly into the holder’s wallet.
Holder stores and controls it
The credential lives in the holder’s wallet. They choose what to share, with whom, and when — full self-determination and selective disclosure.
Verifier checks cryptographically
Any verifier confirms authenticity instantly — without contacting the issuer, without a central lookup, without storing the data.
Privacy by architecture — for issuers, wallets, and verifiers.
The diagram illustrates the ecosystem from the issuer and verifier perspective: how credentials flow technically, how selective disclosure works cryptographically, and how the governance layer creates trust without the state ever seeing or intermediating individual transactions.
The same privacy-by-design principle applies on the holder side. Credentials live exclusively in the holder’s wallet — no central registry, no tracking across services. For AN3 credentials, third-party wallets are supported: organisations and developers can build or integrate their own wallet solutions to hold and present private-sector credentials.
Looking further ahead, third-party wallets may also be used to hold the e-ID itself — but this requires formal wallet certification. That certification process is not yet included in the current roadmap.
2026–2029: From Launch to Full Ecosystem
The milestones for 2028–2029 are only reachable if a broad set of public and private services becomes available in the ecosystem. That work starts now.
Launch & Activation
- Sector Info-Calls & Roundtables
- Cross-sector value exploration
- Public-private MoU commitments
- First Level 3 integrations underway
- 1 Dec 2026: e-ID Act in force, swiyu rollout begins
Scale
- More verifiable credentials beyond e-ID
- Open-source wallet available
- Target: 1M credentials issued
- Live Level 3 services in retail, banking, insurance, education, sports
Everyday Value
- Target: 3M e-ID users
- Daily use cases in production
- B2B across borders
- Rich set of public & private services
Full Ecosystem
- Third-party wallet certification
- International e-ID acceptance
- Organisational identity & delegation at scale
- International B2B interoperability
The ecosystem is built by those who show up now.
Early participants define governance artefacts, credential schemas, and market structure. Latecomers inherit them.
Digital Identity and Data Sovereignty Association
DIDAS is the Swiss non-profit association for digital identity and data sovereignty. For over five years we have accompanied the e-ID programme — nationally and internationally. Today we count 70+ members from all key sectors.
As AN3 Orchestrator we create the neutral space where experts, decision-makers, and practitioners collectively shape the verifiable credentials ecosystem for Switzerland.
DIDAS Launchpad
Coordinated AN3 activation — sector roundtables, cross-sector use cases, and MoU commitments.
Ecosystem Use Cases
Concrete use cases across retail, banking, insurance, education, eGov, and more.
Trust Flow Diagrams
Step-by-step credential flows for specific sectors and use cases.
Schema Registry
Published Verifiable Credential Types — the Beta-ID and beyond.