Digital Trust | Linux Foundation

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Linux Foundation Digital Trust is where open source projects, open standards, and decentralized applications converge. It is an information hub for LF-hosted projects and communities that develop standards, tools, governance, and infrastructure in support of digital assets, credentials, relationships, and ecosystems for use by people, governments, enterprises, non-profits, academic institutions, and society at large. Here, you will find the project communities that each play a unique role in the digital asset ecosystem, with links to learn more about project governance frameworks, leadership teams, technical oversight committees, and, importantly, how you can get involved to support project sustainability.
Digital trust refers to the existence of open standards for trusted technologies that issue, store, and exchange a wide variety of digital assets in a trusted computing environment so that stakeholders have a high degree of confidence in their functionality. Digital trust projects enable us to solve challenges specific to the online digital world, making participation, relationships, and transactions more secure, private, persistent, and portable.
Trusted, standardized, digital technologies enable greater levels of confidentiality and interoperability, lower latency, and reduced friction in digital commerce and digital asset ecosystems. Through open source governance and development models, based on open standards, trusted technologies drive greater levels of interconnectivity, access, and innovation on a global scale. Interoperability within and across communities and technologies is imperative - and we believe the fastest pathway to interoperability is through collaboration on open source and open standards. The Linux Foundation has been at the forefront of bringing people and organizations together to work in the open to solve complex issues, and Digital Trust is no exception. As multiple projects work on various pieces of the puzzle, LF Digital Trust identifies and connects distinct project communities to enhance collaboration, to help organizations and new contributors alike to find the projects that best meet their needs, and bring communities together to improve how the individual pieces of the interoperability puzzle can come together more concretely.
C2PA is addressing the prevalence of misleading information online through the development of technical standards for documenting the source and history (or provenance) of digital assets.
Protecting data in use by performing computation in a hardware-based, attested Trusted Execution Environment, increasing the security assurances for organizations that manage sensitive and regulated data.
Advancing decentralized identity by developing open, foundational elements including specifications and reference implementations.
LF Decentralized Trust is the premier open source foundation for fostering global collaborative development of a broad range of technologies and standards that deliver the transparency, reliability, security, and efficiency required for a digital-first economy.
Enabling dynamic, persistent, immersive experiences that exist between and inside of the digital and real worlds through the development of open source software and standards for a global, vendor-neutral and scalable Metaverse.
Bringing different communities together to create open source components for interoperable wallets. OWF does not create standards or publish a wallet.
Enabling the community consensus and implementation of trusted, vendor-neutral, and secure identity information for human, machine, animal, and geographic assets for the global food and agriculture industry. AgStack supports open collaboration to continuously evolve these standards and services.
Enabling the successful implementation and broad-based acceptance of trusted Web3 technologies within the finance industry. With its roster of financial industry members, FINOS supports open source collaboration to bring these technologies to fruition.
“Having standardization of geo-boundaries through AgStack's asset registry can reduce or eliminate friction associated with deforestation tracking for agriculture commodities as increasingly required by E.U. regulators.”
“Using AgStack’s asset-registry, a universal indexing and identity can be ascertained for a geographic field boundary anywhere in the world. This can unlock and make interoperable hundreds of different datasets at CGIAR which exist at different resolutions and projections.”
“As our global economy and societal infrastructure increasingly rely on digital interactions, the evolution of digital trust has not kept pace with the rapid digitization. This is evident with AI's recent astronomical rise. It's crucial, now more than ever, to build digital trust technologies that are interoperable, secure, and protect the privacy of individuals. Spruce is honored to support the Linux Foundation's projects, such as the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), in creating the foundational elements that increase trust and security in digital interactions.”
“From the early days of the Internet, through the development of the web, smartphones, and social media, our traditional trust frameworks and their supporting computational infrastructures have been pushed to their limits. We're facing a huge challenge to innovate and update our digital trust foundation, making it not only more secure and scalable but also fairer, more private, and accessible to benefit everyone around the world. With the arrival of ChatGPT and other powerful AI that's quickly blurring the line between creation and reality, our task is urgent and worldwide. That's why it's important for us to support and contribute to digital trust projects like these in the Linux Foundation and in other communities.”
“Governments help establish a foundation of trust for the economy. Providing citizens and businesse