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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

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

Hiero

Hiero Turns One! Celebrating a Community-Driven Journey, Milestones, and What’s Ahead

September marks an exciting milestone for Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust’s newest ledger project: Hiero! Over the past year, the Hiero project has grown from an ambitious... Read More

Hiero Community | Sep 16, 2025

Trust Over IP

ToIP and DIF Announce Three New Working Groups for Trust in the Age of AI

Trust Over IP (ToIP), an LF Decentralized Trust (LFDT) project, and the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) have launched three new Working Groups focused on digital trust for... Read More

Drummond Reed, Wenjing Chu, and Andor Kesselman | Sep 15, 2025

Case Study | Besu

How EBSI, LACChain, and RBB are building trust into the core of government services with Besu, an LF Decentralized Trust project

Read the full case studyhere. Around the world, governments are deploying blockchain as a way to restore public trust and deliver citizen services more effectively. From EBSI in... Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Aug 26, 2025

Privacy

Bridging Privacy and Public Blockchains: Reflections from the Privacy for Financial Services Workshop

At the inaugural Privacy for Financial Services Workshop hosted by LF Decentralized Trust in New York, a clear signal emerged: privacy is no longer a theoretical aspiration in... Read More

Pradeep Singh, CEO, Gateway.fm | Aug 20, 2025

Staff Corner: Celebrating Ethereum’s 10-Year Anniversary

This summer marks ten years since the Ethereum network launched, forever transforming the blockchain space and introducing the world to smart contracts, decentralized... Read More

Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust | Jul 30, 2025

Developer Showcase | Besu | Community Spotlight

Developer Showcase Series: Antonio Mota, Vice President, Applications Developer and Lead Analyst, DLT Centre of Excellence, Citi Innovation 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 Antonio Mota, Vice President,... Read More

LF Decentralized Trust | Jul 29, 2025

Hyperledger AnonCreds | Digital Identity | Hiero

Building Trust with Code: How DSR, Hedera, and LF Decentralized Trust, Are Advancing Decentralized Identity

A recent LF Decentralized Trust (LFDT) webinar highlighted a significant advancement in self-sovereign identity (SSI) infrastructure: the release of a new plugin enabling... Read More

Diane Mueller, Advisor, Open Source Development, Hedera Foundation and LF Decentralized Trust TAC member | Jun 27, 2025

Hyperledger Aries | Blockchain Pioneers

Blockchain Pioneers: Hyperledger Aries

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 | Jun 23, 2025

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