"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure

Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure by TrackerFF on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:43AM (#47085770)

Here in Norway (and probably Sweden, too) BankID is a widely used authentication system, and most domestic services will use that as a auth / login. Only "drawback" is that it requires 2FA, which is quite trivial today. But there are still tons of users that want their "login with FB / Google / etc.".

And a last but: If using such auth systems, one would have to account for all the different systems unique to countries.

Maybe some larger EU-specific ID / auth system would make sense?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure by yoavm on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:50AM (#47085836)

Sounds like the EU Digital Identity Wallet project: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EU...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure by lysace on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:53AM (#47086345)

Development happens on Github, (perhaps) ironically.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure by worldsayshi on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:09AM (#47087026)

BankID is very convenient but the lock in is ridiculous. Owned by a private company and pretty much every service that you use depends on it. You're forced to own a new Google-approved Android or iPhone to use it and to function in society.

We definitely need a vendor independent ID system.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure by wvh on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:39AM (#47086233)

Many European countries have decent authentication, banking and payment system alternatives or even innovative solutions. I think, like usually, it's just a problem to break out of national or regional circles into something pan-European.

A lot of people seem to agree that relying on a handful of too powerful American companies, especially in the ad and social media space, is a terrible idea and running foul of privacy requirements. Remains to be seen if some larger alternatives manage to pop up though. The European landscape is pretty fragmented.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure by throwaway063_1 on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:40AM (#47089392)

There are companies such as Signicat, Scrive and others that provide an API that integrates with different national authentication providers.

[ Parent | on HN ]