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, mos