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Dibran Mulder
CTO @ Caesar Groep
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Yivi announces end to end OpenID support: private BETA now open

· 5 min read
Dibran Mulder
CTO @ Caesar Groep

After shipping OpenID4VP support last year and migrating all Privacy by Design issuers to SD-JWT VCs earlier this year, today we're closing the loop: Yivi now supports both OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP. Issuers and verifiers can integrate with Yivi entirely using open standards.

We're opening a private BETA and inviting organizations to be among the first to integrate.

A Yivi user loads in his eduID and discloses it using OpenID4VP using Veramo verifier software.

Post-mortem of the 7th of Januari

· 3 min read
Dibran Mulder
CTO @ Caesar Groep

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 7th of January 2026.

Summary of the impact

We experienced significant degradated user experience on the 7th of January 2026, which affected our services for approximately 4 hours. During this time, users experienced inconsistent success rates in onboarding the Yivi app and or issuing credentials to them. The issue was caused by key rotation of the Yivi scheme and successive issues which arose from rotating the key.

24th of September: Release of Trusted Verifier

· 3 min read
Dibran Mulder
CTO @ Caesar Groep

We are announcing the release of the Trusted Verifier on the 24th of September!

Trusted Verifiers marks a crucial step forward in our mission to enhance the security and reliability of digital identity verification within the Yivi ecosystem. It also secures the long term sustainability of the Yivi project.

UX challenges of a crypto agile wallet

· 10 min read
Dibran Mulder
CTO @ Caesar Groep

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.

Post-mortem of the June 29th and 30th 2025 incident

· 6 min read
Dibran Mulder
CTO @ Caesar Groep

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.

Summary of the impact

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.

Post-mortem of the 1st of July outage

· 6 min read
Dibran Mulder
CTO @ Caesar Groep

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.

Summary of the impact

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.