The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) was established in 2018 by 29 countries (EU member states, Norway, and Liechtenstein) and the EU Commission, forming the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP). EBP aims to leverage blockchain for cross-border services, enhancing trust for public administrations, businesses, and
citizens. Governance is evolving with the EUROPEUM-EDIC, a new legal entity, preparing EBSI for production.
Discover more on our website and FAQs. Business What can you do with EBSI? Several domains and industries can benefit from using blockchain in their business processes. Here we introduce EBSI’s major Use Case families and domains, so you can find out how you can benefit from it. Technology How does it work? Every transaction recorded on the EBSI ledger follows the same path. Here we explain the way in which EBSI's APIs, Smart Contracts and ledger work together to provide trusted information to its users. Infrastructure A pan-European network of nodes EBSI's infrastructure is decentralised: instead of a unique database, there are many synchronised copies hosted in our network of European nodes. This is what makes EBSI tamper-proof. EBSI’s capabilities are categorised in 2 families: Verifiable Credentials and Track and Trace. Each family is divided into subdomains that you can discover below.
EBSI offers robust verification services for documents belonging to natural persons, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of digital credentials such as diplomas or professional certificates. By leveraging decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and verifiable credentials (VCs), individuals can securely share their personal documents
across borders, while relying parties can instantly verify their validity without the need for intermediaries. This promotes trust, privacy, and efficiency in both public and private sector interactions.
EBSI facilitates the reliable verification of legal entities, including companies and institutions, by providing trusted access to business credentials and accreditations. This capability enhances transparency, reduces fraud, and streamlines cross-border operations within the EU and beyond.
EBSI supports the verification of product authenticity and provenance by enabling the validation of product-related data using a decentralized ledger. These services help stakeholders track the lifecycle of goods—from production to distribution—ensuring compliance with quality standards and preventing counterfeiting. By integrating
verifiable product data, businesses can foster consumer trust and support sustainable and supply chains. In collaboration with European universities, cross-border initiatives have been launched to address challenges in verifying and securing information across Europe. These pioneering projects demonstrate how blockchain technology can make information easier to verify and nearly impossible to fake. Explore the groundbreaking projects that are transforming digital trust across borders below. Accessing citizen facilities between regional and national governments. (2023/2024) Student benefits using municipality credentials. (2021 / 2022) Refugee EQPR credentials for European University applications. (2021 / 2022) Shaping the simplicity and reliability of cross-border student eIDs throughout Europe. (2023/2024) Offer foreign university students seamless access to courses, workshops or services. Receiving a master's diploma after receiving a transcript of records from Erasmus. (2021 / 2022) Helping lifelong learners access recognised micro-credentials for their educational achievements (2023-2024) PhD student applications for specific courses in a foreign country. (2021/2022) Facilitating the use of digital student university certificates for cross-border use. (2023/2024) Applying for a PhD with a bachelor/master's degree from a foreign country. (2021 / 2022) Assisting European citizens with the use of vocational education and training certifications across Europe. (2023/2024) Helping labour force mobility across borders by facilitating the verification process of work certificates. (2023/2024) Job applications with a degree from another foreign country. (2021 / 2022) Establishing a unified digital system across Europe for the storage and exchange of various educational and professional qualifications. Helping organizations, associations, and employees deploy a seamless pre-employment screening process to create a safer work environment. Improving all aspects of traveling experience via ferry for EU students, by simplifying by simplifying the onboarding experience. Framing data management practices in the creative industries to improve authoritative and updated information on rightsholders, terms and conditions, and licensing opportunities. Increasing supply chain transparency to address EU counterfeiting of products. Framing data management practices in the creative industries to improve authoritative and updated information on rightsholders, terms and conditions, and licensing opportunities. Helping European national and private actors increase the reliability of scientific measurement and calibration processes across industries and borders. Helping customs brokers, online sellers and marketplaces address VAT evasion. Helping the EU Fishing Industry to enhance product traceability, food safety, and combat illegal fishing. Helping European battery manufacturers enhance the reliability of information critical to the usage of product passports. Enabling cross-border investment within Europe by creating a trust framework between startups, investors, and trusted operators of services to startups. Getting legal entities verified to facilitate cross-border business transactions. Learn EBSI explained series Curious about EBSI or need to explain it to others? This series breaks down the key ideas into short, clear chapters—perfect for beginners and stakeholders alike. Start here to understand what EBSI is all about. Engage Use EBSI Ready to put EBSI to work? Whether you want to test a wallet, run a pilot, or apply for funding, this is where you start. Explore real use cases and take the next step in bringing EBSI to life. Build EBSI Hub This is your go-to place for building and testing EBSI solutions. You’ll find all the resources, tools, and guides you need to start defining, designing, and developing your EBSI project with confidence. Operate Become a Node Operator EBSI Nodes are run by approved operators across Europe, keeping the network secure and active. Ready to shape the future of European blockchain? Join as an EBSI Node Operator. Step into the European Commission’s first public Web3 lab — right in the heart of Brussels. The EBSI Experience Centre offers hands-on demonstrations, thought-provoking talks, and a gateway into the world of Verifiable Credentials and blockchain-powered innovation. Wallets are applications that let you interact with the EBSI ecosystem.
The European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) was created in April 2018 by a Joint Declaration and includes all EU Member States and members of the European Economic Area (Norway and Liechtenstein). The signatories of this Joint Declaration commit to working together towards realising the potential of blockchain-based services for the
benefit of citizens, society and the economy. As part of this commitment, the Partnership is building a European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), which will deliver EU-wide cross-border public services using blockchain technology. In 2020, EBSI will deploy a network of distributed blockchain nodes across Europe, supporting
applications focused on selected use-cases.
As we build the European regulatory framework, in the transition from paper to digital, a key question arises: how to share official documents, called ‘evidences’ or ‘credentials’ in a way that can be trusted? Blockchain changes the traditional pattern of data sharing due to its distributed nature, as opposed to a centralised
information exchange protocol. Blockchain can act as a point of truth that supports the verification of the entities involved in the transaction and the authenticity of information without requiring real-time access to the source of the information. EBSI's objective is leveraging on blockchain to accelerate the creation of
cross-border services for public administrations and their ecosystems to verify information and to make services more trustworthy.
The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) is a network of distributed blockchain nodes across Europe. It is the first EU-wide blockchain infrastructure, driven by the public sector, in full respect of European values and regulations. The EBSI nodes composing the network support multiple protocols (pluggable protocols)
and a full set of APIs. The main protocols supported at the moment are Hyperledger Besu (with IBFT 2.0 consensus) and Fabric.
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Public Administrations Interoperability
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Municipality Credentials
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European Qualification Passport for Refugees
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Educational Identification
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University Alliances
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Transcript of Records
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Micro-credentials
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Micro-credentials
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Formal Accreditation and Recognition
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Bachelor / Master Degree
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Vocational Education and Training
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Employment credentials
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Licence to Practice
Resumé Credentials Application
Certificate of Good Conduct
Digital Ferry Onboarding Experience
Open Rights Data Exchange
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EBSI-ELSA (EUIPO)
Open Rights Data Exchange
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