Identity & Trust Infrastructure
Europe has a strong and growing identity infrastructure ecosystem driven by eIDAS 2.0, which mandates EU Digital Identity Wallets across all member states. Providers like Zitadel (Switzerland), Ory (Germany), and cidaas (Germany) offer open-source and sovereign alternatives to Auth0 and Okta, while qualified trust service providers such as SwissSign, Buypass, and Certum deliver eIDAS-compliant certificates and digital signatures. The regulatory framework around eIDAS, combined with GDPR, gives European identity providers a structural advantage in trust services that US competitors cannot easily replicate.