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

Mentorship Program | Web3j

ERC-4337 Smart Account Tutorial With Web3j

As part of my participation in theWeb3j Libraries Full Development Lifecycle project under the LF Decentralized Trust Mentorship Program, I’ve developed an ERC-4337 Smart Account... Read More

Fangshuo Cao (Alston), LF Decentralized Trust mentee for Web3j | Oct 21, 2025

Besu

Besu’s Journey: Bringing Ethereum into the Enterprise

From its inception in 2019, Besu was designed as an EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) client for permissioned and public networks, delivering enterprise-grade capabilities across a... Read More

Matthew Whitehead, Besu Maintainer and Principal Engineer, Kaleido | Oct 14, 2025

Hiero

Transitioning Hedera CLI to Hiero CLI: Embracing Open Source and Extensibility

The Hedera command-line interface (CLI) is undergoing a significant evolution. We are excited to announce that the Hedera CLI is transitioning to the Hiero CLI, reflecting its new... Read More

Michiel Mulders, Hiero CLI Maintainer | Oct 9, 2025

Web3j

Celebrating Web3j 5: A Journey from 2016 to Today

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Web3j 5, a major milestone in a journey that began back in September 2016. What started as an open source project to make Ethereum... Read More

George Tebrean, Webj3 maintainer and Blockchain Developer at Web3 Lab | Oct 7, 2025

Minokawa

Compact smart contract language is now Minokawa, newest LF Decentralized Trust project

The contribution by Shielded Technologies marks a big milestone in open sourcing the development of tools to advance the vision of a privacy-preserving internet. Read More

Bob Blessing-Hartley, CTO at Shielded Technologies and Minokawa Maintainer | Sep 25, 2025

Labs | Smoot

Strengthening Blockchain Interoperability for Enterprises: Harmonia Lab Merges into LFDT Smoot

The blockchain industry has matured significantly over the past decade, but one challenge remains: interoperability. Indeed, with thousands of blockchain networks currently... Read More

Weijia Zhang and Temujin Louie, Smoot maintainers and contributors from the Wanchain team, Marelize Kriel, Harmonia maintainer, and Peter Munnings, COO at Adhara | Sep 18, 2025

Staff Corner

LF Decentralized Trust at One: Accelerating Innovation, Collaboration, and Opportunity

Today marks one year since the launch of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT). Over the past 12 months, our community has grown, new projects have taken root, and existing... Read More

Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust | Sep 16, 2025

Governance

Technical Advisory Council Report: Year One of LF Decentralized Trust

Introduction As we close out the first full year of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT), it’s clear that our community has made meaningful strides in strengthening... Read More

Tracy A. Kuhrt, LF Decentralized Trust TAC Chair | Sep 16, 2025