# eIDAS 2 and the EU Digital Identity Wallet

> eIDAS 2 and the EU Digital Identity Wallet (European Commission · member states): Digital identity · Regulation (EU) 2024/1183. Region: Europe. Builds with privacy tech: The regime itself mandates, pilots or funds privacy-preserving technology.

Part of the Soda Labs Privacy Hub regulation map, which reads the instruments
themselves rather than summarising the summaries: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub/regulation

## Key facts

- Entry type: Regulator or standard-setter
- Region: Europe
- Subject: Digital identity · Regulation (EU) 2024/1183
- Authority: European Commission · member states
- Stance on on-chain confidentiality: Builds with privacy tech. The regime itself mandates, pilots or funds privacy-preserving technology.
- Tags: eIDAS 2, EUDI wallet, zero-knowledge proofs, selective disclosure, privacy mandated
- Canonical page: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub/regulation/reg-eidas2

## What it actually says

The clearest counterexample to the idea that regulators are uniformly against cryptographic privacy: here EU law names the technology and requires it. Recital 14 says member states should integrate privacy-preserving technologies such as zero knowledge proof, so a relying party can validate that a statement is true without seeing the data behind it. Recital 32 requires providers to be unable to see the details of users' transactions. Recital 59 requires selective disclosure of individual attributes. Member states are to make wallets available to all citizens and residents by the end of 2026. The same legal order that will bar anonymous exchange accounts in July 2027 is putting zero-knowledge credential technology into roughly 450 million hands.

## The instruments that matter

- **Recital 14**: member states should integrate privacy-preserving technologies such as zero knowledge proof into the wallet
- **Recital 32**: wallet providers must be unable to see the details of users' transactions, a property known as unobservability
- **Recital 59**: technical support for selective disclosure of attributes, including across attestations from several sources

## Sources

- [Regulation (EU) 2024/1183](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1183/oj/eng)
- [EUDI regulation overview](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eudi-regulation)

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