🟢 2026 LFDT Mentorship Program — Accepting Applications until May 8, 2026¶
| # | Mentorship | Related Project(s) | Focus | Mentor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fabric-x EVM Compatibility 🎓 Apply |
Fabric-X | 💻 Coding | Alessandro Sorniotti, Arne Rutjes |
| 2 | Hyperledger Fabric to Fabric-X Ledger Migration Tool 🎓 Apply |
Fabric, Fabric-X | 💻 Coding | Yoav Tock, Senthilnathan Natarajan, Liran Funaro |
| 3 | Build and release a Java SDK for Paladin 🎓 Apply |
Paladin | 💻 Coding | Anna McAllister, Matthew Whitehead |
| 4 | Continuous Benchmarking for Besu EVM 🎓 Apply |
Besu | 💻 Coding | Simon Dudley |
| 5 | Hiero Github Workflow App 🎓 Apply |
Hiero | 💻 Coding | Sophie Bulloch |
| 6 | Hiero: Designing the Next-Generation Hiero SDK Architecture (SDK V3) 🎓 Apply |
Hiero | 💻 Coding | Hendrik Ebbers |
| 7 | Exploring Chaincode Support for Hyperledger Fabric-X 🎓 Apply |
Fabric-X | 💻 Coding | Maria Munaro, Marcus Brandenburger, Samuel Venzi |
| 8 | Hyperledger Fabric Token SDK Sample: Update and Feature Completion 🎓 Apply |
Fabric | 💻 Coding | Angelo De Caro, Ilie Circiumaru, Arne Rutjes |
| 9 | Hyperledger Identus - Identity Portal 🎓 Apply |
Identus | 💻 Coding | Yurii Shynbuiev, Javier Ribo, Fabio Pinheiro, Pat Losoponkul, Goncalo Frade |
| 10 | Implementation of a ZK-SNARK Token Driver for Hyperledger Fabric using gnark 🎓 Apply |
Fabric, ZK-SNARK | 💻 Coding | Angelo De Caro, Kaoutar El Khiyaoui |
| 11 | Advanced Threshold Key Management 🎓 Apply |
Lockness | 💻 Coding · 🔬 Research | Denis Varlakov, Nikita Sorokovikov, Antoine Urban |
| 12 | Hiero: Extending Hiero Enterprise Java with Smart Contract Event and Log APIs 🎓 Apply |
Hiero | 💻 Coding | Hendrik Ebbers, Tayebwa Noah |
| 13 | Hypernate - Advanced Fabric Abstractions and Query Engine 🎓 Apply |
Fabric, Hypernate | 💻 Coding | Bertalan Zoltán Péter, Dr. Attila Klenik |
| 14 | Improving Hyperledger Solang Through Comparative Analysis with the Soroban Rust SDK 🎓 Apply |
Solang | 🔬 Research | Salaheldin Soliman |
| 15 | Refactoring and Evolution of the Besu Plugin API 🎓 Apply |
Besu | 💻 Coding | Fabio Di Fabio |
| 16 | T-Claw: an open source "openclaw"-like personal agent based on TEA 🎓 Apply |
ToIP | 💻 Coding | Wenjing Chu |
| 17 | Web3j Libraries Full Lifecycle Development Mentorship 🎓 Apply |
Web3j | 💻 Coding | Nischal Sharma, George Tebrean |
| 18 | Fablo: Add support for Fabric-X 🎓 Apply |
Fabric, Fabric-X, Fablo | 💻 Coding | Jakub Dzikowski, Umegbewe “Great” Nwebedu, Osama Rabea |
| 19 | Improve usability, maintainability, and contributor experience of Hyperledger Cacti 🎓 Apply |
Cacti | 📄 Documentation | Venkatraman Ramakrishna, André Augusto, Carlos Amaro, Rafael Belchior |
| 20 | OTAS - Researching Composable Token Primitives for Post-Trade Clearing, Settlement, and Compliance on Distributed Ledgers 🎓 Apply |
OTAS | 🔬 Research | Surendra Kalidindi, Bryan Bodner, Sarvesh Naidu |
| 21 | Hiero: Contributor Identity Verification Prototype 🎓 Apply |
OpenVTC, Hiero | 💻 Coding | Alexander Shenshin |
| 22 | Implement DKLs23 (threshold ECDSA) protocol 🎓 Apply |
Lockness | 💻 Coding | Denis Varlakov, Nikita Sorokovikov, Antoine Urban |
🔵 Unpaid Mentorships — Accepting Applications until May 22, 2026¶
| # | Project | Related Project(s) | Focus | Mentor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Encrypted Portable Identity for AI Agents, Soul Protocol 🎓 Apply |
ToIP | 💻 Coding | Prakash |
| 2 | Talent Angels @ Learning Tokens: AI Graph Agents for human skills empowerment 🎓 Apply |
Learning Tokens | 💻 Coding | Alfonso Govela, Enmanuel Amaya, Alberto Ceballos, Noemí Muñiz |
| 3 | Trusted Delegation and Pre-execution Security Enforcement for AI Agents 🎓 Apply |
Decentralized Identity | 💻 Coding | Ryan Madhuwala, Yash Goyal, Shubham Sharma |
| 4 | BiniBFT - Testing, Integration, and Documentation 🎓 Apply |
BiniBFT | 💻 Coding | Dr. A. Anasuya Threse Innocent, Mr. Raju Owk |
| 5 | Fablo: Improve developer experience and documentation 🎓 Apply |
Fablo, Fabric | 💻 Coding | Jakub Dzikowski, Umegbewe “Great” Nwebedu, Osama Rabea |
| 6 | GitMesh: Policy-as-Code Engine for Open Source AI Agent Orchestratio 🎓 Apply |
GitMesh | 💻 Coding | Parv Mittal |
| 7 | AI-Powered Operations Agent for Hyperledger Cello 🎓 Apply |
Cello | 💻 Coding | Baohua Yang, Haibo Yang, Yulin Zhu |
Focus Key: 💻 Coding · 🔬 Research · 📄 Documentation