Linux Foundation Takes Governance of TRACE Open Standard

The Linux Foundation has taken governance of TRACE, an open standard designed to ensure trust in AI runtime attestation. This means that organizations can now generate tamper-proof receipts for every AI operation, which can be verified by third parties without relying on the operator's word.

TRACE integrates several established standards to ensure interoperability across different cloud platforms and secure computing environments. It leverages hardware attestation technologies like AMD SEV and Intel TDX to provide a standardized language for AI workloads.

The specification was originally developed by OPAQUE, a confidential computing firm, in collaboration with AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and the Technology Innovation Institute. Since its presentation at the Confidential Computing Summit on June 23, 2026, its reference implementation has been downloaded approximately 135,000 times on PyPI.

The Linux Foundation's CEO, Jim Zemlin, emphasized the importance of neutral governance for creating verifiable AI trust records. The ongoing technical development will continue under the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), which includes AMD and Intel as hardware attestation roots, Microsoft with its Azure confidential computing stack, and TII based in the UAE.