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

CREDEBL Joins LF Decentralized Trust Ecosystem, Bringing the Total of Active Projects to 18

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust), the premier open source foundation for decentralized technology ecosystems, announced a new project, CREDEBL, as well as the release of Hyperledger Iroha 2.0. In addition, four code bases have been accepted as new LF Decentralized Trust labs in the last four months. This includes Paladin, an LF Decentralized Trust lab for programmable privacy on EVM, and other new tools for increasing scale and implementing new trust models.

Initially launched as an open source project by AYANWORKS in 2023, CREDEBL is an established Decentralized Identity (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VC) management platform that allows organizations to issue, verify, and manage digital credentials. Designed with scalability in mind, it can support population-scale implementations. It is already deployed as the core of two National Digital Identity programs, Bhutan's NDI and Papua New Guinea's SevisPass Digital ID. Now, as an LF Decentralized Trust project, CREDEBL will have a structured governance model and diverse, global contributor base, ensuring its direction is community-driven and decisions are made transparently, supporting long-term project stability.

Version 2.0 of Hyperledger Iroha, an LF Decentralized Trust project originally contributed by Soramitsu, features a comprehensive overhaul of its architecture, design and functionality. Designed for digital asset and identity use cases, it reduces the barrier to entry for developers who may not have extensive blockchain experience, emphasizing modularity and ease of use with built-in support for various use cases via a predefined library of digital asset and identity management features. Hyperledger Iroha 2.0 also includes a role-based permission model, multi-signature transactions, rich query language, smart contracts and WASM support. The Central Banks of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are currently running CBDC proof of concepts, while the SORA decentralised network is running a testnet on Hyperledger Iroha 2.0.

Subprojects and Labs

Existing projects are also growing through several of the subprojects that serve to enhance capabilities and encourage collaboration across communities. Recent examples include Hyperledger Indy on Besu, an implementation of well proven identity technology on an Ethereum framework, and two code bases, Hedera Python SDK and Hedera Solo Action, that have been contributed to Hiero. These Hiero subprojects add new language and testing tools for applications built on the most recently launched ledger project in the LF Decentralized Trust ecosystem, Heiro. 

The LF Decentralized Trust Labs continue to be a pipeline for new code bases and communities that are experimenting with new technologies and new opportunities across a range of markets. Five of the active Decentralized Trust projects, including Hyperledger Cacti, Hyperledger Identus, and Hyperledger FireFly, started as labs. Since the launch of LF Decentralized Trust just over four months ago, these new labs have been accepted by the Labs Stewards:

• One Attestation API - Development effort aimed at providing tools and support for hardware/software attestations, a crucial mechanism to establish trust in hardware-based trusted execution environments.
  
  
• Paladin - Platform for building programmable privacy preserving tokens on EVM, with integrated client and wallet, and support for several privacy frameworks, including ZKP tokens, issuer-backed tokens, and private smart contracts, initially developed and contributed by Kaleido.
  
  
• Waterfall Network - Contribution of a high-performance scalable ecosystem for the development of DApps in various fields such as DeFi, DePIN, GameFi, IoT, Enterprise, etc.
  
  
• Web3DB - Community-built decentralized relational database interface that enables fine-grained access control over the data generated by end users in a distributed and zero-trust manner.

"The pace and diversity of code contributions and developer activity across our ecosystem confirm the demand for a neutral home for the open development of trust-enabling technologies," said Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust. "The addition of an established project like CREDEBL, the milestone of a 2.0 release of Hyperledger Iroha, and the growth and innovation funneled into our community through subprojects and labs are different but important paths to advancing this market and delivering on the power decentralized systems. These updates reflect the impact our global community is having on ledger, decentralized identity, data privacy, trusted hardware, smart contracts, and other technologies that are changing how the world transacts and trusts."

New Training and Certifications

To keep pace with the demand for experts in LF Decentralized Trust technologies, the foundation has teamed with Linux Foundation Education on new training and certifications. These include:

• Besu Certified Professional - A certification created for organizations and IT professionals looking to demonstrate their expertise in working with Besu. Resources to help prepare include the free Besu Essentials: Creating a Private Blockchain Network class and an upcoming Configure, Deploy, and Manage a Besu Private Network workshop hosted by industry leaders who helped design the certification program.
• Hyperledger Fabric: Design, Develop, and Deploy - A completely new class on Hyperledger Fabric that equips developers with the skills for implementing and managing projects built with the latest releases of Hyperledger Fabric. It can be taken as a standalone class or as preparation for Hyperledger Fabric Certified Practitioner Exam. 

These certifications give LF Decentralized Trust members a pathway to becoming Certified Service Providers (CSPs) for Besu and/or Hyperledger Fabric. CSPs are companies with proven proficiency and capabilities that are designated as vetted resources for enterprises looking for help adopting and deploying LF Decentralized Trust projects.

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 required 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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