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March 8, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tom Trowbridge, former president at Hedera Hashgraph and current president at Triterras, a blockchain-powered Fintech solution for the trade finance sector, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Triterras was established in 2012 in order to meet the rising demand for commodities that… Read More

March 3, 2020 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Security Tokens for Real Estate. Red Swan, a commercial real estate marketplace, has reportedly tokenized $2.2 billion USD in real estate through the security token platform Polymath, according to a company representative. The $2.2 billion is said to represent 16 different Class A commercial properties… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 2:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade public distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based platform, announced on Wednesday an integration with the Nano S and Nano X wallets from Ledger. Hedera reported that its Ledger Nano S and Nano X wallet implementations will allow users to view and validate public keys… Read More

February 9, 2020 @ 3:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade, public distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, recently confirmed a strategic partnership with Armanino LLP, one of the largest accounting and business consulting companies in the United States. As noted in a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider, the partnership will allow… Read More

December 25, 2019 @ 8:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain development company Hedera Hashgraph announced recently that their platform’s HBAR tokens can be locked by their holders, in order to earn rewards in digital currency. According to Hedera’s December 23 blog post, the new incentive program will begin early next year. HBAR holders that… Read More

November 11, 2019 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, consumes more energy than entire countries such as Ireland and Switzerland. A newly developed decentralized application (dApp), called Power Transition, based on Hedera Hashgraph (a DLT-based platform that claims to be “faster, fairer, and more secure” than existing blockchain networks),… Read More

September 17, 2019 @ 7:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, a decentralized public network where “anyone can carve out a piece of cyberspace to transact, play, and socialize in a secure, trusted environment,” has released its mainnet. Supported by Fortune 100 companies including Boeing, IBM, and the Telekom Group, Hedera Hashgraph aims to… Read More

August 29, 2019 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, “an enterprise-grade public distributed ledger platform” that seeks to address many of the shortcomings of current iterations of blockchain, has scheduled “Open Access” to its mainnet beta for September 16th. On that date, any developer may start creating apps on the Hedera platform…. Read More

August 12, 2019 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, a speedy blockchain that seeks to power enterprise services, has added IBM and Tata Communications to its Governing Council. Hedera reports that curretntly there are 39 multinational entities participating on the Council as it pursues the “next generation” distributed ledger technology (DLT). Council… Read More

June 22, 2019 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, one of several aspiring iterations of blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, designed to address existing shortcomings in DLT 1.0, has paid for a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal mocking Facebook. Last week, Facebook officially launched “Libra” its spin on crypto. The… Read More

May 9, 2019 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Speedy blockchain Hedera Hashgraph and Chainlink have jointly announced they will collaborate to integrate Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network with Hedera’s enterprise level distributed ledger technology (DLT). According to Hedera, this will allow developers writing Hedera-based smart contracts to access real-world data, events and payment information…. Read More

April 10, 2019 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph has boosted its executive team with a prominent appointment. According to a release, Hedera has hired Ari Paul, CIO and co-founder of BlockTower Capital, as an advisor. BlockTower is a leading investor in digital assets and participated in the Hedera offering last year…. Read More

March 4, 2019 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regtech iComply Investor Services says it will be releasing integrations for Hedera Hashgraph, a public, distributed ledger platform. iComply says its technology automates compliance requirements for both the traditional and decentralized financial markets in over 150 jurisdictions. iComply CEO Matthew Unger says that Hedera Hashgraph’s… Read More

February 28, 2019 @ 3:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, a next-generation public ledger designed to have highly diversified governance and the most distributed consensus at scale, today announced it has named Brett McDowell as the Founding Executive Director and Vice Chair of the Hedera Hashgraph Governing Council.  Last week Hashgraph announced its first… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 8:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Speedy blockchain Hedera Hashgraph has announced the first members of the Hedera Hashgraph Governing Council. The group will guide changes to the software run by Hedera distributed nodes over time. Hedera says the initial Council members will be Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper, Magazine Luiza, Nomura Holdings,… Read More

February 6, 2019 @ 12:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph has announced the appointment of Lionel Chocron as their Chief Product Officer. Chocron was most recently at Oracle where he led their emerging technology (ie blockchain, IoT, AI) solution efforts. Depending on how you exactly measure it, Oracle is the 2nd largest software provider in the world…. Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 4:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

The collapse of the crypto market (bear market, crypto winter, whatever you want to call it) has kneecapped a lot of aspiring blockchain based projects that were not savvy enough to hedge their own crypto bets. Hedera Hashgraph is not one of them though. Hedera… Read More

December 25, 2018 @ 9:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, speedy blockchain Hedera Hashgraph, announced the launch of its initial Community Testing Program. According to the company, the first phase of the program allows developers and individuals to test the mainnet and testnets and earn up to 1000 hbars, Hedera’s native cryptocurrency. The… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 3:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Speedy blockchain provider Hedera Hashgraph has announced the launch of their mainnet. While not  quite publicly accessible today, the state of ledger has been cryptographically hashed, according to a blog post by Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon. The founders explain; “We remain highly focused on building… Read More

August 13, 2018 @ 3:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Olportal has announced they will be using speedy blockchain Hedera Hashgraph to build their decentralized messenger app. They also claim it will be the first decentralized messenger on neural networks with an Artificial Intelligence dialogue function. This apparently means plenty of bot speak to answer… Read More