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The lineup of new members includes innovators and adopters in AI, digital assets and tokenization, identity, privacy and security
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2026 -Today, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust), the first open source foundation for decentralized technology, announced eight new general members: Affinidi, Espresso Systems, FairSquareLab, first person cooperative, Hashlock, Horizen, Innovation Labs by Identity Digital, and Matter Labs. In addition, Advanced KI Society and ERC-3643 Association joined as associate members. These new members bring technical expertise and operational experience across AI, digital assets and tokenisation, identity, privacy and security to LF Decentralized Trust. Collectively, their membership reflects the growing footprint of decentralized trust technologies and recognition of open, collaborative development as the key to neutrality and scale.
More CPSs, New Case Study
As another sign of global demand for LF Decentralized Trust technology, FairSquareLab has already become a Besu Certified service provider (CSP). ioBuilders has also completed the requirements to be a Besu CSP. CSPs are designated companies with proven skill and vetted capabilities for enterprises that want to help adopt and deploy LF Decentralized Trust projects.
The latest addition to the LF Decentralized Trust case study library highlights how the foundation’s technologies bring confidence to critical services. The new case study takes a deep dive in Ligue 180, Brazil’s National Violence Against Women Hotline, where Hyperledger Fabric provides immutable, tamper-proof records for every violence complaint filed, protecting the privacy of victims while maintaining full auditability for authorities. Operated by a BrBPO-Metasix Tecnologia consortium for Brazil’s Ministry of Women, Ligue 180 is a trusted system that more than 2,000 women turn to for help every day.
Characterized asset standard comes with LF Decentralized Trust
The Open Tokenized Asset Standard (OTAS), which includes contributions from open source smart contract reference implementations for tokenized financial instruments, is now a LF Decentralized Trust Lab. Presented by OpenAssets with Sui Foundation/Mysten Labs as an initial sponsor, OTAS aims to provide the industry with a neutral, auditable onchain foundation upon which institutions can build or integrate with production platforms. To kick off this new standards initiative, LF presents Decentralized Trust Open Standards for Tokenization: Why Interoperability Matters with speakers from Chainlink Labs, JP Morgan, OpenAssets and Mysten Labs at 12:00 PM EDT on April 22.
“The scope and scale of work underway across the LF Decentralized Trust ecosystem is remarkable,” said Johnna Powell, Managing Director, Global Head of Technology, Research and Innovation, at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the newly re-elected Chair of the LF Decentralized Trust Management Board. “From the diversity of members and deployments, to the pace of adoption in critical markets, to the contributions and innovations on the code and standards fronts, it is clear that LF Decentralized Trust is a driving force in this rapidly evolving industry. As an open, neutral home for collaborative development with a large and growing global community, LF Decentralized Trust is not only for where the next trust is built today, but where the next trust is built taking technologies already taking shape.”
Q1 Highlights
This news caps off a strong first quarter for LF Decentralized Trust. Highlights include:
Together, these developments reflect the accelerating pace of collaboration, contribution and real adoption across the LFDT ecosystem.
“Trust has become a mission-critical layer in financial, government, supply chain and other decentralized ecosystems,” said Daniela Barbosa, General Man.ager, Decentralized Technologies, Linux Foundation, and Executive Director, LF Decentralized Trust. “The protocols, privacy, interoperability, and identity code and standards we offer are building blocks for this layer of trust. We are seeing accelerated demand and deployment of these trust technologies worldwide, driving collaboration and contributions across our ecosystem. Our new members and GSPs add to the depth of our community and will fuel the open development of trust for decentralized systems.”
General members quotes
The support of LF Decentralized Trust’s members is what makes it a neutral home for technical collaboration and innovation:
“Affinidi builds the missing infrastructure layer that enables trust in the digital world, from how people and systems verify who they are to how data is shared and controlled. As more of our world moves autonomously to interactions, this infrastructure becomes fundamental. It must be developed as shared communities, not owned by any single company, and the Linux Foundation is exactly what has contributed to this governance model that we have contributed the most to. A million lines of open source code, including ongoing donations to LF Decentralized Trust Labs. This membership makes that formal commitment.
—Glenn Gore, CEO, Affinidi
“Espresso builds critical infrastructure for a world in which all liquidity is unified and all assets can change hands frictionlessly. The Espresso blockchain is designed to solve interoperability, which inherently requires coordination, open participation and common standards. This is exactly the work of LF Decentralized Trust, and why joining the next step felt to share the next step with others as an obvious job. belief that open collaboration more resilient systems, accelerated innovation and better outcomes for all.”
—Jill Gunter, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Espresso systems
“Becoming a member of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and being recognized as a Besu-certified service provider highlights FairSquareLab’s focus on building institution-ready blockchain infrastructure. Through projects like Project PAX, we have developed practical frameworks for stable coin-based cross-border settlement, where reliability, compliance and interoperability are essential for collaboration, and we believe this will play a key role in collaboration. We are committed to contributing our expertise to the broader ecosystem support.”
—Joonhong Kim, CEO, FairSquareLab
“The First Person Network, controlled by the First Person Cooperative, is entirely based on the open standards developed by the Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group at Trust Over IP (ToIP). Since ToIP is a project under LF Decentralized Trust, it was a natural step for the First Person Cooperative to formally join LF Decentralized Trust. We look forward to a long and productive, established digital collaboration on the Internet infrastructure.”
—Drummond Reed, director, First Person Cooperative
“Joining LF Decentralized Trust reflects Hashlock’s commitment to a more secure, transparent and trusted Web3 ecosystem. We are excited to contribute our blockchain security expertise to a community that promotes open collaboration and the resilient infrastructure needed for the next generation of decentralized technologies.”
— Kristoffer Lewinski, Executive Vice President of Sales and Growth, Hashlock
“Horizen joins Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust with great enthusiasm for the alignment we share regarding blockchain technology, privacy and industry partnership. For our ecosystem of onchain finance and business applications, privacy is less of an ideological concern and more of a practical one. Build for this future of practical onchain privacy – incorporate technologies such as zero-knowledge environment, and more trusted cryptography environment, and more trusted encryption environment. Decentralized Trust’s approach to principles and their practical application.”
—Michael Pastko, Ecosystem Growth Leader, Horizen Foundation
“Today, there is no consistent way to verify who is responsible for an AI agent. Existing identity systems handle authentication and policy well, but they assume someone has already answered a more basic question: which organization is behind this agent? No collection of platform-specific solutions can answer this, because they are fragmented by their nature. What we need to trust agents and make them function is already unambiguous, in DNA layer is unambiguous, there Like all interactions on the internet, each agent already depends on DNS to reliably identify “The resources they need. By extending DNS with PKI and blockchain, we can change the system agents that already rely on the identity anchor that they lack. We look forward to forming this foundation together within the LF Decentralized Trust community.”
—Naveed Ihsanullah, CTO, Innovation LabsDigital Identity
“Financial institutions are moving from exploration to production. The constraint is no longer access to blockchain, but how to operate within the regulatory perimeter, without compromising privacy, control and interoperability. No proof of knowledge solves this by letting institutions provide correctness without exposing data. This is the missing primitive for institutional adoption, and the standards must be built to trust it around the junction. to contribute to that work.”
—Alex Gluchowski, CEO, Matter Labs (developer of ZKsync)
About Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
LF Decentralized Trust is the neutral home for the open development of technologies that empower organizations to innovate with secure and resilient code. It is the Linux Foundation’s flagship organization for a broad range of technologies and standards that deliver the transparency, reliability, security and efficiency needed for a digital-first economy. Supported by a diverse, global base of members and communities, LF Decentralized Trust champions open source best practices across a growing ecosystem of blockchain, ledger, identity, cryptographic and related technologies. To learn more, visit: www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org.
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