Founded in 2021, Linux Foundation Research explores the growing scale The mission of the OWF is to develop an open source engine to enable secure and of open source collaboration, providing interoperable multi-purpose wallets anyone can use to build solutions. The OWF insight into emerging technology trends, aims to set best practices for digital wallet technology through collaboration on open best practices, and the global impact of source code for use as a starting point for anyone who strives to build interoperable, open source projects. Through leveraging secure and privacy-protecting wallets. To be part of this historic movement, go to project databases and networks, and a openwallet.foundation and sign up. commitment to best practices in quantita- tive and qualitative methodologies, Linux twitter.com/OpenWalletFdn Foundation Research is creating the go-to repository for open source insights for the benefit of organizations the world over. Copyright © 2023 The Linux Foundation This report is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License. This material may be copied and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons license. To reference the work, please cite as follows: Gordon Graham, “Why the World Needs an Open Source Digital Wallet Right Now “ foreword by Daniel Goldscheider, The Linux Foundation, February, 2023.