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Version 3.0 of Hyperledger Fabric, an LF Decentralized Trust Project, Now Available

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Milestone Release Delivers BFT, Provides Performance, Speed, Privacy, and More for Enterprise Deployments; Continues Market Leadership as Part of New LF Decentralized Trust

SAN FRANCISCO and VIENNA, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, the premier open source foundation for decentralized technology ecosystems, announced the general availability of Hyperledger Fabric 3.0, which includes Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus that delivers true decentralization for enterprise blockchain deployments. Now a project of the newly launched LF Decentralized Trust, Hyperledger Fabric is a modular, enterprise-grade blockchain framework that is optimized for performance, speed, and privacy.

Powerful new consensus option increases the resilience and reliability of Hyperledger Fabric networks

Hyperledger Fabric 3.0 builds on the performance enhancements introduced in version 2.5, the current LTS release. It also offers a powerful new consensus option, Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) ordering service, which increases the resilience and reliability of Hyperledger Fabric networks. Specifically, Fabric 3.0 is the first blockchain platform to leverage the SmartBFT protocol, which is both easy to implement in existing networks and well suited to production enterprise deployments.

With the SmartBFT ordering service, enterprises using Hyperledger Fabric 3.0 are able to continue operations even if nodes are compromised, a critical requirement for fully decentralized systems. Consensus protocols assure that all parties process transactions in the same order, which is what preserves the integrity and consistency of a decentralized system. When a node is compromised (a Byzantine Failure), it can impact integrity and bring the system to a halt. In this release of Fabric, with the integration of the SmartBFT consensus library, enterprises have the option for production-ready protection against such failures. 

“Support for Byzantine Fault Tolerance completes one of the early visions for Hyperledger Fabric’s unique execute-order-validate modular architecture,” said David Enyeart, Hyperledger Fabric Maintainer and Release Manager at IBM. “While peer nodes have always executed and validated transactions in a decentralized fashion, the new support enables various network participants to provide ordering service nodes without having to place trust in any single organization. The new support opens up use cases where resilience and reliability are critical for every aspect of the distributed system.”

“Hyperledger Fabric has been a source and center of innovation for enterprise blockchain since the market’s earliest days,” said Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust. “With this 3.0 release, the Fabric community has once again developed powerful new features that are critical for large-scale industry adoption. Around the world, blockchain is quietly moving into the core of enterprise systems. As the market’s most mature enterprise DLT platform, Hyperledger Fabric is leading the way, powering a wide range of critical decentralized systems and applications. The impact and innovation of Fabric make it an integral piece to both the enterprise market and the newly formed LF Decentralized Trust.”

To support the widespread adoption of Hyperledger Fabric, LF Decentralized Trust also announced that Fujitsu has completed the requirements to become the newest Hyperledger Fabric Certified Service Provider. There are now 16 Certified Service Providers that have the documented expertise to provide support, consulting, professional services, and training for enterprise deployments of Hyperledger Fabric technology.

Additionally, a new training course, Hyperledger Fabric Mastery: Design, Develop and Deploy, will open for registration soon. 

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“Since 2018, Circulor has pioneered the use of Hyperledger Fabric to build decentralised trust in complex industrial supply chains. To make the energy transition possible, this type of approach and technology is particularly needed in the areas of critical mineral extraction, processing, recycling, and production. Hyperledger Fabric continues to be regarded as the enterprise standard blockchain, and advancements such as these help industrial collaboration, especially in building more resilient, responsible, and sustainable supply chains.” – Douglas Johnson-Poensgen, CEO of Circulor

“Hyperledger Fabric v3.0 marks a significant leap forward in enterprise blockchain technology. With the introduction of the Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) ordering service, Espeo Software expects an enhancement in the resilience and security of our DLT solutions. The release reflects the growing maturity and evolution of Hyperledger Fabric and the project ecosystem hosted by LF Decentralized Trust. Here at Espeo Software, we are eager to leverage these advancements to deliver more robust blockchain projects for our clients.” – Dominik Zyskowski, Consulting Director, Espeo Software

“At Fujitsu, by operating from several centers of excellence in regions such as Iberia, India, and Japan, we gain a global perspective that allows us to better understand both local businesses and those with international structures. This enables us to offer more accurate and tailored solutions and now we are better equipped than ever to help clients embrace blockchain as a core part of their enterprise strategy. The release of Hyperledger Fabric 3.0 enhances our ability to address the challenges of our clients with cutting-edge blockchain technology, while also allowing us to securely and efficiently integrate blockchain with other technologies such as AI, ML, and IoT, solidifying our role as the ideal partner for their digital transformation on a global scale. Hyperledger Fabric’s new features support our mission to deliver scalable, secure, and robust decentralized solutions, making us the ideal partner for organizations looking to integrate blockchain seamlessly into their operations. Together, we are moving toward a future where blockchain enhances every aspect of enterprise systems.” – Marcos Carrera, Head of Blockchain & Web3, Fujitsu 

“At Hitachi, we’ve been hands-on in the development and deployment of Hyperledger Fabric since day one. With each new release, Hyperledger Fabric has helped advance the enterprise blockchain market. It is already the backbone for highly-reliable blockchain applications around the world. Now, version 3.0 adds a new, highly anticipated level of resilience that will fuel more applications and wider adoption.” – Kei Fukuta, Director of Blockchain Planning Department at Hitachi and LF Decentralized Trust Governing Board Member

“Data integrity and transparency are critical to AI’s true scale and adoption. Hyperledger Fabric 3.0 brings robust industrialization for organizations to use blockchain as a data integrity and data trust layer for their AI initiatives. IBM’s contribution to the Fabric 3.0 release continues with its commitment to supporting clients to deploy at scale.” – Shyam Nagarajan, Global Partner, Responsible AI, IBM Consulting

Oracle customers have been using Hyperledger Fabric as part of the Oracle Blockchain Platform since 2018. Hyperledger Fabric 3.0 is a significant advancement for permissioned enterprise blockchains. As our customers focus on high-value decentralized applications in central bank digital currencies, real-world assets, deposit tokens, and other forms of digital assets, there’s greater desire for Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus support. SmartBFT consensus option enables greater resilience against fraud and malicious attacks, and it couldn’t be timelier. This enhanced level of resilience and security will be welcomed in financial services and other industries, and will hasten their adoption of tokenization solutions in permissioned blockchain networks.” –  Mark Rakhmilevich, vice president, Product Management, Mission-Critical Systems, Oracle

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.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, OpenChain, OpenSSF, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, Zephyr, and more, are critical to the world’s infrastructure. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Contact:
Emily Fisher
LF Decentralized Trust
PR@lfdecentralizedtrust.org

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Barrel Energy Inc. Announces Full SEC Reporting Status, Strengthening Marketability and Positioning Company for Expansion in Renewable and Nutritional Energy Markets

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Barrel Energy Inc. (OTC: BRLL) A fully reporting company. Accelerates Growth Across Energy, Hospitality, and Sustainable Ventures, Driving Scalable Opportunities Worldwide.

LAS VEGAS, May 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Barrel Energy Inc. (OTC: BRLL), an emerging diversified energy company focused on renewable energy and nutritional energy initiatives, today announced that the Company is now a fully reporting company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), marking a major turning point in the Company’s long term growth strategy and public market development.

Barrel Energy Inc. Announces Full SEC Reporting Status, Strengthening Marketability and positioning for Expansion.

“Our transition to becoming a fully reporting SEC company represents a significant milestone for Barrel Energy and an important step toward increasing the overall marketability and visibility of our stock,” said Jarmin Kaltsas. “We believe today’s market increasingly rewards transparency and compliance, and becoming fully reporting positions us to engage a wider audience of investors, strategic partners, and acquisition opportunities as we continue executing our long term growth strategy under the BRLL trading symbol.”

Management further stated that the Company plans to aggressively pursue growth initiatives intended to expand revenues, strengthen market presence, and enhance shareholder value through strategic business combinations, operational expansion, and scalable energy focused ventures.

About Barrel Energy Inc.

Barrel Energy Inc. (OTC: BRLL) is a diversified energy company focused on opportunities in renewable energy, and nutritional energy initiatives. The Company seeks to leverage strategic acquisitions, public market growth, and innovative energy solutions to create long term shareholder value.

Forward-Looking Statements:

This press release may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as statements relating to financial results and plans for future development activities and are thus prospective. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not statements of historical fact regarding intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company’s ability to control. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements are risks and uncertainties associated with the Company’s business and finances in general, including the ability to continue and manage its growth, competition, global economic conditions and other factors discussed in detail in the Company’s periodic filings with the Security and Exchange Commission.

Barrel Energy – 3859 S. Valley View Blvd, STE 2 #107, Las Vegas, NV, 89103 Tel- 888- 397-9114 Email- info@BRLLenergy.com Social Media-@BRLLenergy all platforms.

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Legacy Launches $1M Study Advancing At-Home Semen Collection for Assisted Reproduction Technology

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NEW YORK, May 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Legacy, the leading male fertility clinic and at-home sperm testing and cryopreservation platform, today announced the Sperm Study, a clinical research initiative backed by an R&D investment of over $1 million and designed to evaluate and optimize the use of at-home semen collection for assisted reproductive technologies (ART), including IVF and IUI.

Prospectively enrolling up to 250 participants across two phases, this study represents one of the most comprehensive investigations to date into how specimen shipment, handling, and cryopreservation impact sperm quality and is expected to set a new benchmark for scientific rigor in the rapidly growing field of at-home fertility testing. This study is being conducted in collaboration with IVF Academy USA.

Raising the bar for clinical evidence in at-home fertility care

To date, validation work in at-home semen collection has been limited in important ways. Studies have largely enrolled normozoospermic men only, relied on courier-transported rather than real-world-shipped specimens, and focused on short-term motility and concentration as primary endpoints.

Critical questions remain unanswered, particularly around how samples with varying quality perform under genuine end-to-end shipping conditions, and how those samples hold up in the contexts that matter most clinically: IVF and IUI. The Sperm Study is designed to close those gaps.

This multi-phase study will evaluate key sperm quality parameters including motility, DNA fragmentation, and post-thaw viability, while also validating the use of computer-aided semen analysis (CASA) as an alternative to basic manual semen analysis in the setting of mail-in semen analysis.

“With the increased utilization of at-home semen testing and cryopreservation, there is a critical need to ensure these specimens will perform adequately when used for assisted reproduction,” said Legacy’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Scott Lundy. “This study is designed to rigorously evaluate how at-home collection and transport impact sperm quality across a broad patient population and to translate those findings into improved protocols and optimized outcomes for both patients and providers.”

Sperm study design and scientific approach

The Sperm Study is a prospectively accruing cross-sectional study in which paired semen samples are analyzed across multiple timepoints and during the shipment process. Importantly, this study enrolls participants across a range of semen quality profiles — not solely normozoospermic men — and evaluates samples under genuine shipping conditions experienced by real specimens.

Key study components include direct comparison of CASA vs. manual analysis at baseline, evaluation of motility decline over time and in relation to shipment conditions, measurement of DNA fragmentation pre- and post-shipment and cryopreservation, assessment of post-thaw sperm viability and yield, and the development of predictive algorithms for IVF/IUI sample sufficiency.

The study will also examine how factors such as transit time, concentration, and storage conditions impact outcomes, with the goal of generating generalizable insights for clinical practice.

Multi-phase rollout

Phase 1 includes 100 participants and approximately 1,500 total assays, with expected completion in 2026. Phase 2, planned for later in 2026 and into 2027, will expand the study with additional participants, bringing the total to up to 250 to enable broader validation across a more diverse patient population.

Impact on clinical practice

Findings from the Sperm Study are expected to directly inform and improve specimen collection protocols for at-home use, shipping and handling standards for semen samples, cryopreservation practices, and clinical decision-making for IVF and IUI readiness.

By generating high-quality, controlled data across a clinically representative patient population, Legacy aims to provide fertility clinics, researchers, and patients with greater confidence in the use of mail-in semen testing and cryopreservation as part of standard reproductive care.

About Legacy

Legacy is the leading male fertility clinic in the United States, offering at-home semen analysis, sperm cryopreservation, and post-vasectomy testing. With a CLIA-certified, high-complexity andrology lab and one of the largest proprietary datasets in male reproductive health, Legacy is advancing access, data, and innovation in fertility care.

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Elks Award Nearly $5 Million in College Scholarships

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CHICAGO, May 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Elks National Foundation welcomed 900 students to the Elks family, awarding more than $4.9 million in scholarships to high school seniors. An Elks scholarship is more than financial aid; it’s an invitation to a network of service-minded peers and a promise that an Elks Lodge is always there with open arms.

Out of more than 23,000 applicants for the Most Valuable Student scholarship, the Top 20 scholars received $30,000 scholarships and an invitation to Chicago for the Leadership Weekend.

From April 30-May 3, the Leadership Weekend allowed scholars to get acquainted with their new Elks family through programming facilitated by current and former Elks scholars, team-building activities, and a service opportunity.

“Leadership Weekend is one of my greatest memories,” says Emily Cai, sponsored by Toccoa, Ga., Lodge No. 1820. “I had the privilege of meeting inspirational and disciplined individuals who motivated me to become the best version of myself. I am excited to see my future with the Elks family!”

A total of 480 runners-up received $4,000 Most Valuable Student scholarships.

Service is a tenet of the Elks, which is why it’s a requirement for recipients of the $6,000 Legacy Awards scholarship, which is exclusively for the children or grandchildren of Elks members. The new class of 400 scholars will serve with an Elks Lodge three times during the four years they receive the scholarship.

“This award means a great deal to me and my family,” says Kelly Butler, sponsored by Haverstraw, N.Y., Lodge No. 877. “Knowing that the Elks have invested in my future motivates me to continue working hard and striving toward my goals.”

To see a full list of the scholarship winners and to learn more about the Elks National Foundation’s scholarships, visit elks.org/scholars, follow the ENF on Instagram @ElksScholars, and like the ENF on Facebook @ElksNationalFoundation.

Contact: Elks National Foundation
Abbey Knupp | Manager, Communications
2750 N. Lakeview Ave. | Chicago, IL 60614-2256
773/755-4864 | AbbeyK@elks.org 

Helping Elks Build Stronger Communities

The Elks National Foundation, the charitable arm of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, helps nearly 800,000 Elks and nearly 1,800 Lodges nationwide build stronger communities through programs that support youth, serve veterans, and meet needs in areas where Elks live and work. To learn more, visit elks.org/enf.

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