Tagged: hedera

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

December 14, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The HBAR Foundation and MetaVRse, a web-based, low-code 3D creation platform, today announced a partnership to build Metaverse solutions for the world’s largest organizations on the Hedera Network. The creation of the Metaverse will require tools that are easy to use and accessible, and MetaVRse… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The HBAR Foundation, the entity that aims to boost the development of the Hedera ecosystem, has announced a partnership with DECA4, a blockchain consultancy based in the UAE. The partnership is expected to help build and support decentralized projects in the Middle East on the… Read More

November 12, 2021 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Akt.io, the platform bridging decentralized finance (DeFi), wealth management and payment services, has announced its partnership with the HBAR Foundation in order to support their launch of the first DeFi app on the carbon-negative Hedera Network, which claims to be “the most used, sustainable and… Read More

October 28, 2021 @ 8:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

MoonPay, a global cryptocurrency payments solution, and the HBAR Foundation today announced US customers in most states can now purchase the Hedera network’s native token, HBAR, through MoonPay’s platform. The Hedera network is an increasingly popular, sustainable enterprise-grade public network for the decentralized economy. The… Read More