As we kick off the second quarter of 2025, it's a good time to reflect on the incredible progress we've made together at LF Decentralized Trust (LFDT). LFDT was launched last fall to support a fast-evolving decentralized future through open source collaboration, with a focus on digital trust, interoperability, identity, and decentralized infrastructure. We hit the ground running, making 2024 a landmark year. And now 2025 is off to a fast start across our industry and certainly within the LF Decentralized Trust global community!
From the first weeks of the year, we’ve been going full bore here at LF Decentralized Trust engaging with and championing our community and projects. We kicked things off by joining the discussions at WEF in Davos where the topic of decentralized trust played an evermore bigger role. From there, it was off to Tokyo to speak on “Bridging Blockchains; Building Businesses" at GFTN Japan Forum and host a workshop at JSCC (Japan Securities Clearing Corporation) on the future of financial markets advanced by IT innovation, where open source and Besu took center stage.
At an LFDT interoperability workshop hosted by J.P. Morgan, speakers from Adhara, Chainlink Labs, IBM, Interop Labs (Axeler), LayerZero, Polygon, Swift, and more showed the way forward for collaboration across many Layer 1, Layer 2, and permissioned networks. As we heard loud and clear in the room, there is a high level of demand and excitement for this type of collaboration.
During Digital Asset Summit NYC 2025, we welcomed LFDT members at our booth to showcase their expertise and highlight how they’re leveraging our open source technologies to drive real-world impact across the digital asset ecosystem.
Come find us at future events. There are a number of great ones coming up, including Point Zero Forum, the FT’s Digital Assets Summit, Women in Tech 2025, the inaugural Global Digital Collaboration Conference, a privacy workshop, and more.
Our technical community has been moving fast as well. They’ve already added one new project, Credebl, and multiple labs. Two projects, Credebl and Hyperledger Iroha, have also released 2.0 versions of their code bases.
There have also seen a number of great project updates, including:
LF Decentralized Trust members are the ones fueling all this work, and we continue to broaden our support with new members from around the world. We recently announced another wave of new members, joining us from Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, and Spain.
In the last few months, we’ve hit some other key milestones on the global growth front:
LF Decentralized Trust Tech in the Market
Of course all this work is, ultimately, in support of deploying technology to drive efficiencies, build businesses, change markets, and enable the transition to a digital-first economy. During the first few months of 2025, we have seen a wide range of new solutions and services that are powered by our projects reach key milestones. They include:
For more on LF Decentralized Trust technologies in action, explore our use case tracker, which has hundreds of examples that you can sort or filter, or check out our case study library, where we have deep dives into deployments from around the world.
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The LF Decentralized Trust community is thriving, but we can always be doing more. We invite you to get involved. There are countless ways to support our projects. Dive in via Discord, Meetups, community calls, webinars, workshops, and/or our newsletters. All are welcome! Help us build a decentralized future!