Welcome to the New LF Decentralized Trust!

The Linux Foundation's flagship organization for fostering innovation and collaboration in the development and deployment of decentralized systems and technologies

Decentralized Systems with Distributed Trust

LF Decentralized Trust is a new umbrella organization aimed at gathering and expanding a community and portfolio of technologies to deliver the transparency, reliability, security, and efficiency needed to successfully upgrade critical systems worldwide.

It will encompass current Hyperledger projects, along with new technologies, communities, and specifications crucial to the broader shift towards decentralized systems with distributed trust.

LF Decentralized Trust will serve as a neutral hub for the open development of a wide range of ledger, identity, security, interoperability, scalability, implementation, and related technologies.

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Launching September 2024

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Congratulations! You are a founding member of LF Decentralized Trust. You will remain on your current renewal cycle.
If you are a current Hyperledger member, your memberships are valid as LF Decentralized Trust memberships. No further action is needed. When your next renewal window arrives, your invoice will reflect LF Decentralized Trust. The membership pricing will follow the same model.
They will become projects of the LF Decentralized Trust. We are actively working with the maintainers, including all Hyperledger projects, to revise their charters. The new charters will update governance, giving each project its own Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Note: For existing projects currently under the Hyperledger Foundation, they will also have the option to keep the Hyperledger name or, if they can obtain legal/trademark clearance, to drop 'Hyperledger' from their project name. (Note: This option was first introduced in the updated charter establishing the Hyperledger Foundation.)
The Linux Foundation has announced its intent to form the LF Decentralized Trust. Once this umbrella organization is formally launched, it will serve as the home for the global Linux Foundation community that is building software, specifications, and standards to ensure trust across critical decentralized systems. This will include the 14 projects and more than 50 labs in the current Hyperledger ecosystem, as well as other technologies and projects related to ledgers, identity, interoperability, security, integration, and implementation that current and future members and contributors bring to the table. Technologies that would fall under the new LF Decentralized Tech include distributed ledgers, smart contracts, decentralized file storage, decentralized identity systems, zero-knowledge proofs, multiparty computation, federated systems, and more.

This is a transition window. The development, governance, and support for projects, labs, SIGs, and communities under the current Hyperledger Foundation will continue as usual. Member support and marketing efforts will also stay in full force. 

In parallel, there will be work underway by the Linux Foundation team to ensure governance and systems are in place to support the broader reach of LF Decentralized Trust. Once the full infrastructure for the new organization is ready, it will be formally launched.

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