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Mentorship Program

Applications Open: 2025 LF Decentralized Trust Mentorship Program

According to the Harvard Review, 96 percent of commercial programs include open source software, translating to $8.8 trillion of value to businesses worldwide. And the... Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Apr 15, 2025

Besu

Preparing for the Besu Certified Professional Exam: Tips, Resources, and a Discount Code

The Linux Foundation recently launched the Besu Certified Professional exam to give people a way to demonstrate their expertise with the open source Ethereum client, an LF... Read More

David Boswell, Community Architect, LF Decentralized Trust | Apr 9, 2025

Trust Over IP

Trust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP) V2.0 Now Open for Public Review

Internet Identity Workshop—Mountain View: The Trust Registry Task Force (TRTF) at Trust Over IP (ToIP) today announced Public Review Draft 01 of its Trust Registry Query Protocol... Read More

Andor Kesselman, Darrell O’Donnell, Antti Kettunen, and Drummond Reed, editors of the TRQP spec | Apr 7, 2025

CREDEBL

CREDEBL v2.0.0: Major Updates Across Platform, Studio, Credo-Controller, and Mobile SDK

We are excited to announce the release of CREDEBL v2.0.0, the first major update as an LF Decentralized Trust project. The new version is packed with significant enhancements, new... Read More

Ajay Jadhav, CREDEBL Maintainer | Mar 26, 2025

Mentorship Program | Hyperledger Fabric

LF Decentralized Trust Mentorship Spotlight: VS Code Debugger Plugin for Hyperledger Fabric Chaincode

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Claudia Emmanuel | Mar 24, 2025

Hyperledger AnonCreds | Digital Identity | Hiero

New Releases from Hiero Community for Integrating Identity Frameworks - Your Feedback Requested

We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Hedera Plugin for ACA-Py, an OpenWallet Foundation project, along with the Hiero DID SDK for Python, a subproject of LF Decentralized... Read More

Diane Mueller, LF Decentralized Trust TAC member and Open Source Strategic Advisor, Hedera | Mar 20, 2025

Governance | Hiero

Upcoming Elections for End User and Community Seats on the Hiero Technical Steering Committee (TSC)

We are excited to announce the upcoming elections for two vital positions on the Hiero Technical Steering Committee (TSC): the End User Seat and the Contributor Seat. These roles... Read More

Hiero Community | Mar 18, 2025

Developer Showcase | Besu | Community Spotlight

Developer Showcase Series: Bruno Nascimento, Staff Engineer, Cheesecake Labs

Back to our Developer Showcase Series to learn what developers in the real world are doing with LF Decentralized Trust technologies. Next up is Bruno Nascimento, a staff engineer... Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Mar 17, 2025

Labs | Mentorship Program | Hyperledger Fabric

LF Decentralized Trust Mentorship Spotlight: CC-Tools Support for Fabric Private Chaincode

Participating in the Hyperledger Fabric CC-Tools Support for Fabric Private Chaincode project through the LF Decentralized Trust Mentorship program has been an exciting and... Read More

Osama Magdy | Mar 10, 2025

Blockchain Pioneers | Hyperledger Explorer

Blockchain Pioneers: Hyperledger Explorer

As Hyperledger Foundation laid out in the Helping a Community Grow by Pruning Inactive Projectspost, there is an important life cycle to well governed open source projects.... Read More

Ry Jones and David Boswell, Community Architects | Mar 5, 2025

Web3j

Full Linea RPC APIs Support in Web3j

Web3j, an LF Decentralized Trust project, is a lightweight, highly modular Java library for integrating Ethereum-based applications. It allows developers to interact with Ethereum... Read More

Nischal Sharma, Webj3 maintainer and Blockchain Developer at Web3 Labs | Mar 3, 2025

Finance

Celebrating Black History Month: Advancing FinTech and Blockchain Innovation at HBCUs

As we celebrate Black History Month, we reflect on the remarkable strides that Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have made in financial technology and blockchain innovation.... Read More

Ali Emdad, Ph.D | Feb 25, 2025

Mentorship Program | Hyperledger Fabric

Mentorship Spotlight: BiniBFT Implementation - The Optimized BFT on Fabric

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Raju Owk | Feb 21, 2025

Climate | Special Interest Group

Hope Through Innovation: A COP29 Perspective on Climate Innovation for 2025

At COP29 in Baku, a tale of two conferences emerged. While media headlines focused on gridlocked negotiations, I witnessed a different story unfolding. As Chair of LF... Read More

Sherwood Moore, Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group | Feb 19, 2025

Hiero

Hiero: Advancing Decentralized Trust Through Open Source Innovation

Trust and transparency are essential for advancing digital systems in today's interconnected world. The Hiero project, a groundbreaking open source initiative under Linux... Read More

Sophie Bulloch, Hiero Contributor, and Hendrik Ebbers, Hiero Maintainer | Feb 12, 2025

CREDEBL

CREDEBL Becomes an LF Decentralized Trust Project, Advancing Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials for a Secure Digital Future

We are excited to announce that CREDEBL, the leading platform in Decentralized Identity (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VC) management, developed and maintained by the AYANWORKS... Read More

Ajay Jadhav, CREDEBL Maintainer | Feb 5, 2025

Labs | Privacy

Announcing Paladin, an LF Decentralized Trust Lab for Programmable Privacy on EVM

The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) has become a development platform of choice for blockchain projects, thanks to its token standards, great open source samples, and vibrant... Read More

Peter Broadhurst, Paladin Maintainer and Co-Founder & Head of Engineering, Kaleido, and Andrew Richardson, Paladin Maintainer and Principal Engineer, Digital Assets, Kaleido | Feb 5, 2025

Hyperledger Iroha

Announcing Hyperledger Iroha 2

Hyperledger Iroha 2 is an innovative blockchain framework aimed to be robust, fast, and efficient for digital asset and identity use cases. Now a project of LF Decentralized... Read More

Hyperledger Iroha maintainers | Feb 5, 2025

Labs | Mentorship Program

Mentorship Spotlight - AI-FAQ Lab: GUI implementation and prototype deployment

Project: AI-FAQ Lab: GUI implementation and prototype deployment Read More

Jacqueline Zhang | Jan 24, 2025