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Readiness verdict

Digital Credentials API

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Watch

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
69% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:54:00.531469+00:00
Claimed
50

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
47

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
43

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+7

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Track; not yet

Why
Browser support has actually shipped (Chrome 141, Safari 26), but it rests on a young Working Draft with unresolved privacy/governance gaps (verifier over-asking, no verifier registry) flagged by EFF and a real protocol-fragmentation tax; the risk of building on a spec that may be obsoleted, plus regulatory turbulence around age verification, argues for tracking, not adopting.
Next
Monitor the W3C draft toward Candidate Recommendation and watch OpenID4VP-v1 / ISO 18013-7 interop and the Safari-mdoc vs Chrome-OpenID4VP split; prototype only in an isolated trust-authority spike, do not wire into production identity flows.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
14
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
5
Tier 3
9
Supports
4
Contradicts
5
Context
5
Latest observed
2026-06-16

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-07-19 Reading moved from watch to watch.

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