Hi there, explore this month's highlights from around the global community. Click on any bullet below to read more. 

Main Announcements

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Boosting Besu Performance: 2025 Accomplishments and 2026 Roadmap

• Growing LFDT’s Zero Knowledge Proof Community and Expertise

• Integration tips for web3j-maven-plugin in Java projects

Events & Webinars

• Member Summit 2025/26 - January 28

• Digital Assets Forum 3 - February 5
• Summit on Human Agency - LFDT community partner - Save the date - February 23

Member News

• SEC Grants DTCC No-Action Letter on Blockchain Tokenization Initiative

• Circle Signs Agreement to Acquire Interop Labs Team & Intellectual Property (Interop Labs)

• GLEIF Announces the vLEI Hackathon Winners Creating Digital Trust in Industry 4.0

• Introducing Digital Trust Infrastructure (Blockchain Research Institute)

• Decentralized identity: The superpower every 2026 budget needs (Indicio eBook)

• Zoniqx Powers World’s First Tokenized Upstream Oil & Gas Fund on Hedera

• Getting Ethereum Ready for GigaGas (Nethermind)
• Google and the World Bank Group are collaborating to build AI-powered public digital infrastructure for emerging markets (Networks for Humanity)

• The KERI Foundation is hiring Full‑Stack and Core Library Python Developers to help build open source decentralized identity infrastructure.

LF Decentralized Trust & Technologies in the News

• Ledger Insights - Paladin privacy framework graduates as Bank of Korea joins LF Decentralized Trust 

• The Asian Banker - Linux Foundation calls for cryptographic agility ahead of the quantum era

• Crypto News - The next standard in blockchain is code neutrality | Opinion

• Grand Pinnacle Tribune - Privacy Blockchains Surge As Institutions Embrace New Standards

• Fast Company - Is blockchain considered quantum safe? 

• Bahia Economica - Enterprise: Come Hyperledge Fabric, Besu e Quorum Modernizam Supplychain, Trade Finance e Complaince Regulatoria {Blockchain Enterprise: How Hyperledger Fabric, Besu and Quorum Modernize Supplychain, Trade Finance and Regulatory Compliance}

• Forbes - Green Blockchain Trade-Offs: Energy, Security, and Decentralization

LF Decentralized Trust Projects in Action

• Citi is laying plans for crypto supremacy (Besu)

• The end of the cash era? Israel is preparing for a new payment method! (Hyperledger Iroha)

• New blockchain-AI framework targets surging OTP fraud with real-time location checks (Hyperledger Fabric)

• Venkate Exchange Partners With GreenTPay To Advance Web3 Digital Payments (Hyperledger Fabric)

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Training & Certifications

• Preparing for the Besu Certified Professional Exam: Tips, resources, and a discount code
• Looking to master decentralized technologies? Check out all our courses and certs.