Tagged: hedera hashgraph

October 19, 2020 @ 1:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade blockchain platform, has announced a partnership with Onchain to provide custody services in Asia. Onchain will be providing custody for Hedera’s native digital asset HBAR. Holders of HBAR will have the option to secure their HBAR tokens with Onchain’s SAFE digital… Read More

September 16, 2020 @ 1:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

High-performance blockchain Hedera Hashgraph is reporting that it now is topping 1.5 million transactions a day – surpassing the popular Ethereum blockchain. Hedera notes that this is approximately 18x the number of transactions Ethereum achieved during its first year as a publicly available network. As… Read More

May 15, 2020 @ 4:46 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,” may offer “Consensus-as-a-Service” for blockchains or distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks. Hedera is a leading provider of enterprise-grade DLT solutions…. Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kingdom Trust, a regulated custody provider, is now providing custody for Hedera Hashgraph‘s HBAR as it has been added to its list of “acceptable digital currency investments.” Lionel Chocron, Chief Product Officer of Hedera, said Hedera’s mission is to provide the trust layer of the… Read More

April 23, 2020 @ 1:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coupon Bureau (TCB), a non-profit, industry managed coupon data exchange technology provider, will be using the Hedera Hashgraph Service, developed by Hedera Hashgraph, a decentralized public network, in order to provide a real-time, “tamper-proof” log for all coupon events that take place on its… Read More

March 18, 2020 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph an “enterprise-grade” distributed ledger technology (DLT) that seeks to solve many of the issues plaguing existing iterations of blockchain, has received a nice endorsement of sorts. Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) has joined the Hedera Governing Council.  Wipro is an India-based IT company. Wipro operates… Read More

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

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

April 2, 2019 @ 11:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Tokeny, the Luxembourg-based fintech compliant tokenization platform delivering institutional grade solutions in the issuance, lifecycle management and secondary trading of security tokens, has partnered with global law firm DLA Piper. Hedera Hashgraph recently cited DLA Piper as first members of the Hedera Hashgraph Governing Council,… 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