Today, June 15th, 2026, I officially start my 6-month LFX mentorship under the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) program. I will be working on a project called Hiero Contributor Identity Verification Prototype, under the guidance of my mentor Alexander Shenshin.
*## What am I building, and why does it matter? *
In open-source projects, anyone can open a pull request. But how does a project maintainer know that the person submitting code is actually who they claim to be? Right now, most projects simply trust GitHub usernames, which can be faked, compromised, or shared.
This project solves that by building a real identity verification layer on top of GitHub's contribution workflow. When a contributor opens a pull request, instead of just trusting their username, the system cryptographically verifies their identity using:
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) anchored on the Hedera blockchain
