The Linux Foundation | 10 June 2025
BrBPO, GFTN, Valor Capital Group and more join global member community; first wave of companies complete requirements to become Besu CSPs
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5, 2025 – Today, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust), the premier open source foundation for decentralized technology, announced BrBPO, Gateway.fm, Silence Laboratories, and Valor Capital Group as its newest general members and Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) as the latest associate member. In addition, Key State Capital, which initially joined LF Decentralized Trust as a member of Trust Over IP, has now signed on as a general member of the Foundation.
Valor Capital will also be a sponsor of Building the Global Infrastructure for Digital Assets Together, a community event hosted by the LF Decentralized Trust Brazil Chapter on Monday, June 9, from 2:00-7:00 p.m. at Safra Bank. Daniela Barbosa, General Manager, Decentralized Technologies, Linux Foundation, and Executive Director, LF Decentralized Trust, will also be speaking at Febraban Tech as part of the panel “A Tokenização na Prática: Aprendizados da Linha de Frente/Tokenization in Practice: Learnings from the Front Lines.”
As these events show, digital assets and tokenization are moving into the mainstream, and LF Decentralized Trust members and projects are playing critical roles in advancing the market. Besu, an LF Decentralized Trust project initially contributed by Consensys that serves as an enterprise-grade EVM client, is particularly gaining traction in institutional-grade financial projects where compatibility with both public and permissioned networks offers a strategic advantage.
In response to this demand, LF Decentralized Trust has introduced a Besu Certified Service Provider (CSP) program to make it faster and easier for enterprises to implement Besu. CSPs are pre-qualified professional service providers that have demonstrated experience in deploying, implementing and supporting specific LF Decentralized Trust technologies.
The first wave of Besu CSPs includes Consensys and Kaleido – both active maintainers of the Besu project – as well as Cheesecake Labs, CPQD, DSR Corporation, and Kerala Blockchain Academy (KBA), all LF Decentralized Trust members with valuable implementation expertise and a track record of ecosystem engagement.
“Since contributing Besu to the open source community in 2019, we’ve been committed to growing the ecosystem through robust, enterprise-ready Ethereum infrastructure,” said Rob Dawson, CTO at Consensys. “The launch of the Besu Certified Service Provider program signals the accelerating momentum for Besu adoption in the enterprise space and ensures that organizations have trusted partners with proven expertise to deploy and support Besu in production environments. It’s a win for developers and enterprises building on permissioned and public networks alike and a testament to the strength of open source collaboration.”
The Hyperledger Fabric CSP program also continues to grow. BrBPO, KBA, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are the newest Hyperledger Fabric CSPs.
Other updates from the LF Decentralized Trust project ecosystem includes the addition of a new interoperability project, Smoot, and the release of a new case study detailing how Infosys is using Hyperledger Indy, an LF Decentralized Trust project, together with the Open Wallet Foundation’s ACA-Py to boost efficiency, security, and privacy of credential verification.
“Each day it becomes even clearer that decentralized technologies and networks will power the next generation of global systems,” said Barbosa. “For the last 10 years, our community has been working collectively to build the core technologies for these new systems. As our newest members, certified service providers, and projects reflect, the work spans different ledgers and protocols in both the public and permissioned space as well as critical tools and standards for identity, interoperability and cryptography. We welcome their contributions to our diverse ecosystem and the open development and governance that make our projects the foundation for a decentralized future.”
General Member Quotes
The support of LF Decentralized Trust's members is what makes it a neutral home for technical collaboration and innovation:
"BrBPO joins Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust driven by the strong synergy between our offerings and values and the decentralized trust technologies the foundation promotes. Managing critical operations and sensitive data is central to our services, which compels us to ensure maximum trustworthiness/reliability from user identity to information storage. Therefore, we see joining not just as a strategic alignment, but as an opportunity to actively contribute to strengthening the LF Decentralized Trust ecosystem by collaborating directly in the development of its platforms."
– Carlos Eduardo Quilici Gurgulino de Souza, CEO, BrBPO
“Joining LF Decentralized Trust is a natural step in our commitment to accelerating the adoption of decentralized technologies across enterprise and public sectors. As core contributors to Ethereum, Gnosis, and Polygon, Gateway.fm combines deep protocol expertise with a strong understanding of enterprise needs. We believe that decentralized infrastructure is already capable of meeting the demands of large-scale, real-world use cases. Through our open-source technology stack, we enable organizations to build secure, compliant, and privacy-preserving applications that integrate seamlessly with the broader Web3 ecosystem. We’re excited to collaborate with the LF Decentralized Trust community to pave the way for responsible and scalable adoption of decentralized data handling.”
– Pradeep Singh, CEO, Gateway.fm
“We are excited to be joining LF Decentralized Trust for a myriad of reasons, namely the active developer community, networking opportunities and sense of purpose it is fostering to facilitate next-generation infrastructure. The foundation has a fantastic team supporting these global initiatives, and it’s a pleasure to support our ecosystem together.”
– Nicholas Racz, Partner, Key State Capital
"Joining the Linux Foundation and LF Decentralized Trust marks a pivotal step for Silence Laboratories as we embed privacy‑preserving computation at the heart of tomorrow’s digital infrastructure. Our proven work in Multi‑Party Computation (MPC) has shown that sensitive data can be computed on—never exposed—across digital assets and the financial ecosystem. As part of LF Decentralized Trust, we plan to contribute the next wave of breakthroughs, including a post‑quantum‑ready MPC stack and our forthcoming Cryptographic Computing VM (CCVM)—a modular runtime that lets developers build verifiable, policy‑enforced applications without touching raw data. Together with the LF Decentralized Trust community, we’ll set new standards for scalable, interoperable, and fully compliant privacy‑preserving computing, accelerating the emergence of transparent, trustworthy financial and digital‑asset ecosystems.”
– Jay Prakash, Co‑founder & CEO, Silence Laboratories
“Open innovation has powered the internet’s growth and collaboration. As digital finance and blockchain redefine value creation, open source technology will be equally vital. That's why Valor Capital Group is proud to join the Linux Foundation and LF Decentralized Trust. Through our team and portfolio, we're committed to building an open tokenized economy.”
– Michael Nicklas, Managing Partner, Valor Capital Group
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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