29/07/2026
Who is actually using DIDComm today?
Leadpoint System recently initiated a global survey with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) to better understand how DIDComm is being used in real-world environments.
Over three months, 29 organizations from countries including the United States, Germany, India, Brazil, Switzerland, Australia, Portugal, and Canada participated in the survey.
The results show that DIDComm is already well beyond the experimental stage.
Among the respondents, 14 organizations are running DIDComm in production. Combined, these deployments represent more than 25 million users and millions of transactions every day.
DIDComm is being used across identity wallets, credential issuance, agent-to-agent communication, government services, financial services, enterprise applications, AI agents, and cross-organizational data exchange.
The survey also showed that DIDComm and OpenID4VC are not necessarily competing choices. Many organizations are implementing both and selecting the protocol that best fits each architecture and user flow.
At the same time, interoperability, implementation complexity, tooling, documentation, and broader adoption remain key challenges.
For LPS, this survey was an opportunity to move beyond assumptions and understand how decentralized identity technologies are actually being deployed around the world.
We look forward to continuing our collaboration with DIF and contributing to the next stage of DIDComm and decentralized identity infrastructure.
https://blog.identity.foundation/who-uses-didcomm/
The following guest post was contributed by Leadpoint System (LPS), who initiated the DIDComm survey and collaborated with DIF on its promotion. Next week, DIF will host a breakfast at IETF on July 22, to discuss the implications of the survey results on DIDComm. The survey, led by Leadpoint System