Open Source Summit India 2026 opened with a focus on India's digital public infrastructure — and the Linux Foundation projects making it happen.
AI Tokenomics Foundation
A new Linux Foundation project tackling the economics of AI. Building reference implementations and layers for two audiences: Practitioner Minds (buyers/consumers) and Supplier Minds (builders/providers).
This matters because token pricing is the unsolved problem of the AI economy. How do you price a token? How do you make token economics transparent? The foundation is building the standards.
OCUDU — Global Open Source RAN Ecosystem
The National Spectrum Consortium is backing OCUDU, an open source Radio Access Network foundation. India is leading the development with a philosophy of "Minimum Development, Maximum Upstream Dependence" — leveraging O-RAN-SC, ONAP, Nephio, and CNCF.
LF interns and local open-source community are driving glue code, automation scripts, and test frameworks. This is how India builds telecom infrastructure without vendor lock-in.
LF Decentralized Trust
Hyperledger Fabric is powering India's digital public infrastructure across multiple government agencies: - **RBI** — Central bank blockchain initiatives - **MeitY** — Ministry of Electronics and IT - **CBSE** — Education board records - **Supply Chain** — Government procurement
The India Stack (UPI, Aadhaar, DigiLocker) is going open source. The implications for AI agent identity and verification are massive — if every citizen has a verifiable digital identity, every agent acting on their behalf can inherit that trust chain.
More coverage coming from Day 2.