We are excited to announce the BETA release of Yivi Passport credentials!
This new feature allows users to securely store and manage their digital passports within the Yivi wallet, enhancing convenience and accessibility for travelers. With this release, Yivi expands its reach to a truly international audience.
Our mission is to make Yivi the most privacy and user friendly wallet out there. In line with this mission we developed our crypto agile vision, allowing users to use different cryptographic technologies in a seamless way. As part of this vision, we want to support verifiable credentials, which are becoming increasingly popular in the digital identity space.
Yivi Portal is Yivi's new initiative to help with a smooth launch for the Trusted/Pretty verifier. Trusted Verifier is a pivotal part of the roadmap as mentioned in earlier blog posts and serves as part of our commitment to our users, as well as helps with transparency with our verifiers in covering the downstream costs of various verification sessions that our issuers bear.
In this blog post I will dive into what the portal exactly is, and what can you expect from the coming updates.
According to our mission, we are committed to transparency and accountability. This post-mortem is part of that commitment, detailing the events surrounding the issue with the Yivi app on iOS on June 29th and 30th 2025.
Some iOS users of the Yivi app were unable to open their Yivi app on June 29th and 30th, 2025, due to an issue with the Universal Links feature. This issue was caused by a domain migration of irma.app, resulting traffic to be redirected from irma.app to yivi.app. iOS devices however do not support redirection for Universal Links, which led to the app being unable to open Universal Links. This issue was resolved by changing the irma.app domain back to its original server.
Users that had the Yivi app installed prior to the incident were probably not affected, as the app was still able to open. However, users who installed the app after the domain migration were unable to open it due to the Universal Links issue.
According to our mission, we are committed to transparency and accountability. This post-mortem is part of that commitment, detailing the events surrounding the outage of the 1st of July 2025.
We experienced a significant outage on the 1st of July 2025, which affected our services for approximately 6 hours. During this time, users were unable to validate their pincodes and access their Yivi App, making the Yivi-App unusable. The issue was caused by an outage in the Scaleway data center AMS-1, where our database server is located. Scaleway preemptively shut down several services in the datacenter to prevent further issues such as hardware damage due to abnormal temperatures.
The European Commission is preparing a temporary age verification app, aimed at protecting minors on platforms where a minimum age is required—think of online pornography, gambling, alcohol sales, and certain social media services. In a digital world, it's legitimate to shield minors from harmful content. The Digital Services Act (DSA) already obligates large platforms to take protective measures, and the Commission is stepping in where compliance is lacking. A technical solution to verify age online is therefore urgently needed.
We’re excited to introduce a new feature in Yivi: IBAN Issuance via verified iDEAL payments. This addition brings secure, self-sovereign proof of bank account ownership right into the hands of Yivi users.
As we enter a pivotal phase in digital identity development across Europe, Yivi is committed to becoming a compliant EUDI-wallet. This strategic decision is driven by a broader vision: to ensure that privacy-first identity solutions remain viable in a landscape increasingly shaped by regulation and standardization.
Our mission has always been clear: with Yivi, you are in charge of your digital data. And while regulatory alignment with eIDAS 2.0 and the EUDI-wallet may challenge some of our architectural preferences, it is a necessary step to bring privacy-preserving identity to the masses.
We want to inform you about a slight change in the planning, with the following impact for IRMA-server administrators:
We are pleased to announce the successful completion of the Yivi Keyshare Server migration. As of March 18, 2025, at 00:00-01:00 CET, all services have been seamlessly transitioned from SIDN to Caesar Groep.