LFDT - LF Decentralized Trust

The Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust) is a major open source foundation launched in September 2024 to provide a neutral home for collaborative development of decentralized technologies. The organization brings together multiple established digital identity projects and standards under one umbrella, including the complete Hyperledger ecosystem and Trust Over IP Foundation.

The foundation focuses on several core digital identity standards and protocols including W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model, AnonCreds Specification, Indy DID Method, and the Aries protocol. These technologies enable Self-Sovereign Identity capabilities through features like verifiable credentials, decentralized identifiers, and peer-to-peer agent communication.

Notable adoption includes participation from major financial institutions like Citi and DTCC, technology companies like Accenture and Hitachi, and government entities including the Banco Central do Brasil and SERPRO. The foundation launched with over 100 founding members and 17 technical projects, demonstrating significant industry support for standardizing decentralized identity technologies. Key projects include:

• Hyperledger Identus - Components for building decentralized identity solutions
• Hyperledger AnonCreds - Privacy-preserving verifiable credential format
• Hyperledger Aries - Infrastructure for blockchain-based peer-to-peer interactions
• Hyperledger Indy - Tools and libraries for decentralized identity

The foundation represents a major consolidation of open source digital identity projects and aims to drive collective innovation in transparency, reliability, security and efficiency for decentralized systems.