Tagged: Shayne Higdon

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

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

June 20, 2022 @ 5:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

While Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, says he is buying Bitcoin right now, others are not so convinced the bottom is in. Shayne Higdon, co-founder and CEO of the HBAR Foundation, believes there is more pain on the way. HBAR Foundation… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The HBAR Foundation and Dropp, a digital micropayment transaction platform enabling payments both in FIAT ($USD) and cryptocurrency, today announced a grant that will help Dropp develop its business. “Dropp is a revolutionary technology that solves the incredibly large business problem of hefty fees associated with low-cost… 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

January 6, 2022 @ 7:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The HBAR Foundation today announced a partnership with Indian composer, producer and musician A.R. Rahman, to create content for a new NFT music platform focused on India’s independent music community. It is providing a grant and organizational support for development and growth of the NFT… 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

November 5, 2021 @ 3:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

hashport looks to improve decentralized network interoperability through several methods when it launches Nov. 9. The company said it achieves this balance by eliminating the need for a native network token, acting as a decentralized public utility, while harnessing the power of the Hedera Consensus… 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