Announced on December 2025, 5 – The OpenID family is ready to welcome a new member!

📢 What started?

Great news from the OpenID FAPI Working Group!FAPI 2.0 Message Signing This new specification has finally reached the stage of being approved as the final specification 🎉

This is called the "Final Specification", so to speak.Diploma in TechnologyOnce approved, it provides you with intellectual property protection and will never be changed again, meaning it's a "finished product" you can rest assured about!

📅 Check out important dates!

Mark your calendars:

🔍 Public review period

Thursday, May 2025, 5 - Monday, July 29, 7

• You have plenty of time in 60 days
• We are looking for your feedback during this period.

🗳️ Voting related dates

• Voting start announcement: July 7th (Tuesday)
• Early voting begins: August 8th (Tuesday) ⭐️ Whoever completes their review first will be the first to vote!
• Official voting period: 8 days from August 12th (Tue) to August 8th (Tue)

📊 Voting Process Review Period ────────► Early Voting ────► Formal Voting (60 days) (One week early) (7 days)

🤔 What is FAPI 2.0 Message Signing?

Simply put, it is a way to exchange money and important data.SaferThis is the technology to do so!

(I.e. Open Banking, Open dataIt is an advanced version of FAPI used in cryptography, and adds a "digital signature" to messages:

• ✅ You can check if the message is genuine
• ✅ You can tell if it has been tampered with along the way
• ✅ You can prove who sent the message

💡 Why is this important?

Current,Billions of peopleuses OpenID Connect, and FAPI has been the largest open banking provider in the past five years.De facto standardbecame.

So when you manage your money in a banking app or securely share data between different services, you're benefiting from this technology!

🤝 How do I participate?

👀 Someone who just wants to watch over you

You don't have to do anything special! Just keep watching the progress.

💬 People who want to give feedback

1. Contribution Agreement Sign up to join 📝 https://openid.net/intellectual-property/
2. mailing list Join 📧 https://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-fapi
3. Send us your feedback!

🗳️ People who want to participate in the poll

You need to be a member of the OpenID Foundation 👥

https://openid.net/foundation/members/registration

🌟 About the OpenID Foundation

🎯 OUR MISSION: Empowering people to assert their identity wherever they choose

Since our founding in 2007, we have:

• 🔒 Safe
• (I.e. interoperable
• 🛡️ Privacy protection

We continue to create open identity standards that combine all three of these.

📈 Achievements

• Open ID ConnectBillions of people using millions of apps
• FAPI: Open banking and open data standards
• Global Development: Technology that supports the "network of networks" around the world

🎊 Summary

The finalization of FAPI 2.0 Message Signing is a big step towards making the digital world more secure!

After this 60-day review period, a formal vote will take place in August. If you're technical, we'd love your feedback, and if you're not, we'd love your support.

🔗 Detailed information:

• OpenID FAPI Working Group: https://openid.net/wg/fapi/
• OpenID Foundation: https://openid.net/

📧 Contact Us: Marie Jordan – OpenID Foundation Secretary

Let's work together to create a safer and more open digital world! ✨