{"id":2753370,"date":"2026-01-26T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2753370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:22:50","slug":"pwc-italy-skchain-advisors-to-build-blockchain-based-eu-digital-identity-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2753370\/","title":{"rendered":"PwC Italy, SKChain Advisors to Build Blockchain-Based EU Digital Identity Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian division of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said is building a European Union (EU) digital identity product alongside blockchain consultancy firm SKChain Advisors.<\/p>\n<p>The product under development will enable European companies and their customers to securely access digital platforms including those in the world of Web3, according to an emailed announcement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Developed on World Mobile Chain, a layer-3 network built on Coinbase&#8217;s Ethereum layer-2 Base, the product will use self-sovereign identity (SSI) technology. SSI is a decentralized form of identity that gives users full control of their data rather than handing it to third parties.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain technology underpins SSI in that it allows for users&#8217; data to be distributed and stored securely, removing the need for centralized identity providers. <\/p>\n<p>The basis for PwC Italy and SKChain&#8217;s product is the EU&#8217;s digital identity regulation eiDAS 2.0 and the European Digital Identity EUDI) wallet that it introduces.<\/p>\n<p>EiDAS aims to establish an EU-wide digital identity framework for accessing services and making electronic transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian division of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said is building a European Union (EU) digital identity p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2753371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784996],"tags":[817744,4626,133797,513401,817745,12477],"class_list":{"0":"post-2753370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-digital-identity","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-pwc","12":"tag-self-sovereign-identity","13":"tag-12477"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}