New BCS Release in September
A new release of the Beta Credential Service (BCS) will be deployed on 16 September 2026. With this release, the current components of the swiyu Trust Infrastructure will be integrated.
BCS - Overview of Changes
- DID Tooolbox 2.3.0 and DID Resolver 2.9.0 are integrated.
- Current 4.x versions of the swiyu Generic Issuer and swiyu Generic Verifier are integrated.
- DPoP is set to “mandatory” in the swiyu-issuer configuration.
- did:webvh: is used, requiring a new DID (see below).
- The schema for the issuance URL for Beta-IDs is changed from “swiyu” to “openid-credential-offer”.
- The schema for the verification URL for Beta-IDs is changed from “swiyu-verify” to “openid4vp”.
Action required
We will use the following new DID on the Sandbox environment:
swiyu Sandbox BCS: did:webvh:QmdPxnNc9MzGYZ6qcHuvi8YpDVYWW7mmefnCTPcKapNEL5:identifier-reg.trust-infra.swiyu-int.admin.ch:api:v1:did:5f8a3c95-1772-4ebf-ada0-c88bafb258e1
If you have built your own Beta-ID verifier, then you will have to add the new DID to the list of accepted VCs in the verifier configuration in order to be able to verify newly issued Beta-IDs.
You’ll find more details about the different steps in our Change Dossiers:
