Tagged: hedera hashgraph

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

September 26, 2018 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mind Fund, a Hong Kong based VC company, has partnered up with Hedera Hashgraph to launch the first accelerator dedicated to Hedera’s iteration of blockchain. Helix Accelerator, based in Hong Kong, will seek to build Dapps exclusively built on Hedera’s platform. Mind Fund also participated… Read More

September 10, 2018 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, a company pursuing a speedy iteration of blockchain that is enterprise ready, has filed an updated Form D with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the Reg D 506c filing, Hedera has raised $104,467,509 from 985 different investors. The offering is for… 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

August 1, 2018 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, a super fast iteration of distributed ledger technology (DLT or blockchain) has raised $100 million from both institutions and high net worth individuals. The new funding round is said to have delivered a whopping $6 billion valuation to the emerging Fintech firm. Management, and… Read More

June 27, 2018 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, a distributed public ledger organization, announced on Tuesday it has joined the Trusted IoT Alliance, an open source software consortium that aims to create a secure, scalable, interoperable, and trusted Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. The organization reported that as a member of… Read More

June 6, 2018 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Sagewise, a smart contract resolution ecosystem, will be building out its service on the Hedera Hashgraph platform. By utilizing this new blockchain, Sagewise will be able to leverage its super speedy technology. Smart contract losses exceeded half a billion U.S. dollars in value in 2017,… Read More

March 13, 2018 @ 8:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Hedera Hashgraph platform is “a new form of distributed consensus.” Unlike many existing iterations of distributed ledger technology, Hedera Hashgraph tackles known shortcomings that undermine the ability to scale to provide “lightning fast” and secure collaborations and transactions minus computer heavy proof of work…. Read More