Hiero

A Look into Hiero’s Accomplishments and Goals

Introduction As we enter the second quarter of 2026, it’s a good time to look back at Hiero’s progress over the last year and map out goals for the rest of 2026. Read More

Jessica Gonzalez, Technical Community Architect, Hiero | Apr 1, 2026

Digital Identity | Trust Over IP

Advancing Global Standards: Trust over IP and the urn:said Namespace

Trust over IP (ToIP), a project of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, has reached an important milestone in advancing interoperable digital infrastructure: the formal... Read More

Carly Huitema, Trust over IP Steering Committee co-chair | Mar 25, 2026

Governance

Meet the 2026 Technical Advisory Council

This year, we welcome a new chair, vice chair, and four new members to the LF Decentralized Trust Technical Advisory Council (TAC). The 11 members of the TAC, elected under the... Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Mar 17, 2026

Digital Identity | Hiero | Trust Over IP

Proof of Personhood in Action: The First Person Credentials Demo on Hedera

An open source proof-of-concept for verifiable human identity developed by LFDT, Hedera and DSR Read More

Hiero contributors from DSR Corporation and Hedera | Mar 5, 2026

Digital Identity | Labs | Trust Over IP

Decentralized Trust Infrastructure at LF: A Progress Report

When LF Decentralized Trust held its first annual Member Summit in October 2024, Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin issued a challenge to the members: LF itself needs decentralized... Read More

Drummond Reed, Co-Chair, ToIP Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group | Mar 5, 2026

Web3j

Web3j 5.0.2: A Community Release That Moves Us Forward

The release ofWeb3j v5.0.2 marks another important step in the evolution of the Web3j ecosystem. This release is not just about version numbers or dependency bumps; it reflects... Read More

George Tebrean, Webj3 maintainer and Blockchain Developer at Web3 Lab | Mar 4, 2026

Mentorship Program

The 2026 LFDT Mentorship Program is officially open!

Maintainers and active contributors: We invite you to propose a mentorship project! The mentorship program is a structured opportunity to get additional help and resources for... Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Feb 10, 2026

Staff Corner

Building Forward, Together

As I reflect on last week’s LF Decentralized Trust Member Summit and Maintainer Days, I want to extend a sincere thank you to every member and maintainer who showed up,... Read More

Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust | Feb 5, 2026

Besu

A Deep Dive into Besu Milestones: 2025 Highlights and 2026 Goals

Introduction Looking back to the beginning of the year, we had ambitious goals for Besu, and we packed a lot into 2025 - including shipping 3 hardforks (2 named hardforks plus... Read More

the Besu Maintainers | Feb 4, 2026

Mentorship Program | Hyperledger Fabric

Mentorship Spotlight: Building a Confidential Digital Asset Escrow with Hyperledger Fabric

Project Goals and Motivation The main goal of this mentorship project, Fabric Private Chaincode and CC-Tools for privacy-sensitive applications, was to explore how a confidential... Read More

Abhinav Prakash | Jan 26, 2026

Featured Post | Staff Corner

Building the foundations for a decentralized world: A decade of community, code, and market development at the Linux Foundation

Ten years ago today, the Linux Foundation launched its first blockchain-related project, the Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort to “advance popular blockchain... Read More

Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust | Dec 17, 2025

Community Spotlight

2025 Community Awards: Recognizing Contributions from Across the LF Decentralized Trust Community

As part of our celebration of a decade of building better together, this year we are giving out 10 community recognition awards. The winners have contributed in a variety of... Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Dec 16, 2025

Digital Identity | Trust Over IP

ToIP Announces Public Review 02 of the Trust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP) Specification V2.0

The Trust Registry Task Force (TRTF) at Trust Over IP (ToIP) is pleased to announce Public Review 02 (PR02) of the Trust Registry Query Protocol Specification V2.0. Read More

the Trust Registry Task Force (TRTF) at Trust Over IP (ToIP) | Dec 11, 2025

Climate | Special Interest Group

Climate Action: Official Release of the Anthropogenic Impact Accounting Ontology Suite

Understanding the challenge Across climate and sustainability programs, data about human impacts on the environment is fragmented and inconsistently named. Projects use different... Read More

CA2SIG Standards Working Group (Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust) | Dec 9, 2025

Hyperledger AnonCreds | Case Study | Digital Identity | Trust Over IP | Hyperledger Indy

Open source flywheel: Indicio turns leadership in the LF Decentralized Trust community into credibility, growth, and global reach

Read the full case study here. Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Dec 4, 2025

Besu

Boosting Besu Performance: 2025 Accomplishments and 2026 Roadmap

Looking back to the beginning of 2025, improving performance in Besu was one of our major goals for the year. In this blog post we want to share what specific improvements we’ve... Read More

the Besu Maintainers | Nov 19, 2025

Privacy | Community Spotlight

Growing LFDT’s Zero Knowledge Proof Community and Expertise

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are rapidly becoming one of the most powerful tools in the privacy and scalability toolkit for modern cryptography and blockchain systems. Their... Read More

Daniel Szegö, LF Decentralized Trust ZK Learning Group | Nov 18, 2025

Mentorship Program | webj3

Integration tips for web3j-maven-plugin in Java projects

As part of my participation in the Web3j Libraries Full Development Lifecycle project under the LF Decentralized Trust Mentorship Program, I’ve developed a tutorial on integrating... Read More

AbdElrahman Hedia, LF Decentralized Trust mentee for Web3j | Nov 17, 2025

Finance | Staff Corner

A Growing Circle of Trust: Welcoming Our 10th Central Bank Member

Last month, while speaking at the Bank of England’s DLT Innovation Showcase on a panel about interconnecting financial networks, I was reminded how far our community has come.... Read More

Karen Ottoni, Senior Director, Ecosystem & Strategic Initiatives, LF Decentralized Trust | Nov 11, 2025

Paladin

Paladin, a unified programmable privacy framework for EVM, becomes newest LF Decentralized Trust project

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By Peter Broadhurst, Paladin Maintainer and Co-Founder & Head of Engineering, Kaleido | Nov 11, 2025