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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
2026-06-28
Revision
1
Method
v1.0.0

Current reading

The readiness gap, in one scan

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Claimed
50

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
47

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
43

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+7

Claimed minus verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28

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
8
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
3
Tier 3
5
Supports
2
Contradicts
3
Context
3
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

This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.

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