Tagged: hedera

February 15, 2024 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Mondelēz International (Nasdaq: MDLZ) is the next corporate to join the Hedera Council. The company makes well-known brands like Toblerone, Oreo, Ritz, and more, generating more than $31 billion in revenue annually. The company has a market cap of almost $100 billion. Hedera is the… Read More

January 16, 2024 @ 12:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hedera says it Wallet Snap is now live on MetaMask, which provides access to MetaMask’s 30 million monthly active users, The wallet is built by Tuum Technologies, a developer of open-source decentralized identity solutions. Snaps extends the functionality of MetaMask by enabling developers to create… Read More

January 3, 2024 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ: WKEY), a global firm focused on cybersecurity, digital identity, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions operating as a holding company, through its subsidiary WISe.ART, a key player in the field of digital art and luxury collectibles, is pleased to announce… Read More

December 13, 2023 @ 10:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The HBAR Foundation and Archax have shared plans to enhance their partnership by expanding support for HBAR staking, the native cryptocurrency of the Hedera network, as well as the pursuit of further tokenisation projects. Building on the recent addition of HBAR to its crypto spot… Read More

November 9, 2023 @ 4:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Moflix Group, a telecommunications industry pioneer providing next-generation digital solutions, announced that it has raised a $3.1 million seed funding round with the participation from The Hashgraph Association (THA) – the Swiss-based non-profit organization accelerating the adoption of the Hedera network globally, “alongside other strategic… Read More

July 20, 2023 @ 5:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Shinhan Bank, SCB TechX, and an unnamed financial institution in Taiwan have announced the successful completion of a stablecoin remittance proof-of-concept (PoC) pilot, according to a release. The PoC was reportedly built on the Hedera network, a high-performance blockchain. The pilot was said to have… Read More

May 20, 2023 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hedera Governing Council, which stewards the Hedera open source, leaderless proof-of-stake public network, announced that COFRA Holding has joined the Governing Council. COFRA is “a 182-year-old family enterprise with more than 60,000 employees and business activities in sectors including real estate investment, sustainable food,… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blade Labs, Hedera’s wallet infrastructure provider, and the creators of the enterprise grade Blade Wallet, are announcing the launch of their suite of SDK integration products to further accelerate Web3 adoption. With the help of these new products, project developers can now quickly and easily… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Former acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks has joined the board of the HBAR Foundation. The HBAR Foundation is the entity that is guiding the adoption of the Hedera blockchain – a distributed ledger is an enterprise-grade public network. While at the Office of… Read More

February 9, 2023 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hedera Governing Council announced Dell Technologies is the latest company to join the Council “to help organizations explore distributed ledger technology (DLT).” As an active member of the Hedera Council and network, Dell will “gain experience with the opportunities provided by the rising technology… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since its launch on the Hedera network, LG Art Lab has continued to support innovation and “provide accessibility to the digital art world.” With the latest upgrades, LG Art Lab further “solidifies its position as a leading curator of digital art.” Fine art lovers “can… Read More

December 20, 2022 @ 6:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Hashgraph Association has announced the funding of its first round of projects for its innovation program. Based in Switzerland, the Hashgraph Foundation aims to accelerate the adoption of its distributed ledger technology.  Hashgraph states there are three cohorts of 12 projects each which will… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Hedera Governing Council has announced new executives joining their team, each with interesting backgrounds. Hedera is the entity that leads the open-source Hedera network, a blockchain technology that aims to solve many of the challenges of competing distributed ledger technologies. According to a note… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

abrdn plc, a global investment company based in Scotland that reports £508 billion in assets and 5000 employees, has joined the Hedera Governing Council. According to Hedera, abrdn will move to make Hedera the technology of choice for investment fund tokenization. In a company statement,… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The HBAR Foundation and Merkle Science, the predictive crypto risk and intelligence platform, have announced their partnership. This collaboration “supports Hedera’s journey to build the world’s first mass-adopted public decentralized ledger, empowering network participants to better identify and mitigate crypto crime, comply with local and… Read More

April 10, 2022 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The HBAR Foundation, an organization that supports the development of the Hedera ecosystem by offering grants and various other resources, recently announced the launch of a $250 million Metaverse Fund “to onboard both consumer brands and their users to Hedera Hashgraph’s Metaverse ecosystem.” The Metaverse… Read More

March 30, 2022 @ 11:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  The HBAR Foundation, an organization that directs the development of the Hedera ecosystem by providing grants and other resources, this week announced the launch of a $155 million Crypto Economy Fund to bootstrap Hedera Hashgraph’s decentralized finance ecosystem. The Crypto Economy Fund is focused on… Read More

March 12, 2022 @ 10:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The HBAR Foundation, an organization supporting development in the Hedera ecosystem by offering grants and resources to developers, announced the introduction of its Sustainable Impact Fund (SIF) to globally “grow the sustainability economy on Hedera.” The Foundation will work with initiatives that support key outcomes… Read More

January 19, 2022 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph says it will open-source its blockchain technology during 2022. Simultaneously, the Hedera Governing Council reports that it has voted to purchase the intellectual property rights to the Hashgraph consensus algorithm from Swirlds, Inc., the original creator of the Hashgraph consensus algorithm and founding… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On Thursday, December 9, 2021, a “critical” zero-day exploit was reported in the widely used log4j2 library. The exploit “did not affect the Hedera network,” the platform’s developers claim while noting that “out of an abundance of caution, the Hedera team addressed the issue on… Read More