LEAF Community Launches LEAF Verified, A Next-Gen Access Credential Powered by NXP's MIFARE DUOX® Chip

LEAF Verified leverages public key cryptography to eliminate key management complexity while transforming credentials into intelligent service platforms for commercial access

December 5, 2025

The 30-Year Problem: Why Access Control Hardware Lives Longer Than Its Technology

This piece explores the unique challenge of designing access control hardware that must function for decades and meet unknown demands, despite being built with only currently available components. It explains why legacy systems persist and how universal standards help (and where they fall short).

| Member Spotlights

LEAF Brings Choice, Vision, and Business Sense

This is why Matt Bennett is excited about LEAF, "To see how we can start extending [mobile credentials] and working with other LEAF partners to extend [mobile wallet] tap experience to other hardware."

Using LEAF to Move From Rhetoric to Reality

LEAF is where hollow promises like "interoperability," "seamlessness," "simplified," and "security" advance beyond rhetoric and become reality.

Why Join the LEAF Community

Josh from Paladin Technologies isn't holding back about the state of access control – and we're here for it. Closed solutions that don't talk to each other? That's not what's best for end users. They need the ability to actually solve problems, and that requires a community working together.

LEAF Means Easy Implementation for Manufacturers

Sometimes the biggest barrier to innovation isn't technical complexity - it's assumptions about technical complexity.

| Highlights from Industry

LEAF Wallet Credentials - The Future of Open Secure Access Control

CIE

At The Security Event 2025, Wavelynx and CIE showcased how Leaf Credentials are changing the access control industry through open interoperable and software based technology. This article covers everything you need to know.

dormakaba Joins LEAF Community, Advancing Interoperability

SecurityInfoWatch

Industry analyst Lee Odess says dormakaba’s decision to join the LEAF Community marks an important moment for access control, underscoring interoperability as the industry’s path to mainstream maturity.

The Paradigm Shift in Security Driven by the LEAF Community

BioAffix

This article outlines a compelling journey from the end of the closed ecosystem mindset to the rise of empowering open standards, with the LEAF Community standing out as one of the advocates of this movement.

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