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

Main Announcements

• Our Mentorship Program seeks maintainers, developers, and contributors to propose projects by March 15 (see guidelines). Selected projects will welcome mentees to collaborate on code, docs, or research.

• LF Decentralized Trust Announces New Identity Project, Hyperledger Iroha 2.0 Release, and Line-up of New Subprojects and Labs

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

• Mentorship Spotlight: BiniBFT Implementation - The Optimized BFT on Fabric

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

• Hiero: Advancing Decentralized Trust Through Open Source Innovation

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

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

• Announcing Hyperledger Iroha 2

Events & Webinars

• GFTN Forum, Japan, March 3-7, Community saves 30%

• Member Webinar: Programmable Privacy for EVM: A Deep Dive into Paladin, an LF Decentralized Trust Lab, March 5
• Digital Assets Summit New York, March 18-20 - Community saves 10%
• ZK Learning Group: Polynomial Commitments - Meetup, March 20
• Configure, Deploy, and Manage a Besu Private Network online workshop on Wednesday, March 26th 

• Real World Crypto Symposium March 26-28

• Digital Assets Summit 2025 May 6 – May 07, Community saves 20%

• Women in Tech 2025 May 20 – May 22

Member News

• Unveiling Oracle Blockchain Platform Digital Assets Edition: Accelerate Innovation in Finance and Other Industries
• Ethereum Staking Meets Social Impact: Lido Impact Staking Officially Launches - Launchnodes

LF Decentralized Trust & Technologies in the News:

• CREDEBL comes under Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (Biometric Update)
• Como usar contratos inteligentes para automatizar processos {How to use smart contracts to automate processes} (Seu Crédito Digital/Your Digital Life)
• How Decentralized Technology Is Enhancing Data Protection (IntelligentHQ)
• How to Implement Blockchain in Supply Chain Management (Datafloq)

LF Decentralized Trust Projects in Action

• Blockchain and token-based incentivisation to make AI training data fairer and more secure (Hyperledger Fabric)
• Elon Musk’s plan to run government on blockchain faces uphill battle (EBSI deployment of Besu