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Hedera is a decentralized public network for you to make your digital world exactly as it should be – yours. Whether you're a startup or enterprise, a creator or a consumer, Hedera goes beyond blockchain for developers to create the next era of fast, fair, and secure applications.
The Hedera Governing Council

The 3rd generation public ledger

Bitcoin pioneered decentralized infrastructure and Ethereum brought programmability. But earlier proof-of-work blockchains consume massive amounts of energy and process transactions slowly in order to achieve acceptable levels of security. Heavy bandwidth consumption by these technologies leads to expensive fees, even for a simple cryptocurrency transaction.


The Hedera proof-of-stake public network, powered by hashgraph consensus, achieves the highest-grade of security possible (ABFT), with blazing-fast transaction speeds and incredibly low bandwidth consumption. By combining high-throughput, low fees, and finality in seconds, Hedera leads the way for the future of public ledgers.

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Transactions
per second

average
fee

transaction
confirmation

1st
Generation

Bitcoin

BTC

3+

TPS

$2.99

usd2

10-60

minutes

2nd
Generation

Ethereum

ETH

12+

TPS

$2.89

usd3

10-20

seconds

3rd
Generation

Hedera

HBAR

10,000+

TPS1

$0.0001

usd

3-5

Seconds

(w/finality)

1. Cryptocurrency transactions. For Hedera, range shown for transactions not requiring a transaction record, but can receive a transaction receipt.

2. Avg. Bitcoin tx fee from 6/26/20 - 9/24/20 from https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/charts/average-transaction-fee-usd?interval=3m

3. Avg. Ethereum tx fee from 6/26/20 - 9/24/20 from https://blockchair.com/ethereum/charts/average-transaction-fee-usd?interval=3m

Primary Network Services

The Hedera Consensus Service and Cryptocurrency take advantage of the high-throughput, low latency features of the network, running at the native performance of the network's underlying hashgraph protocol.

Consensus Service

Build directly on hashgraph

Create scalable and publicly verifiable timestamps and ordering of events for any application. Track assets on a supply chain, count music streams for digital rights, or log digital asset transfers.

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Cryptocurrency

ENABLE FAST, LOW FEE PAYMENTS

Cryptocurrency payments allow you to transact using hbars without intermediaries to lower costs and make complex payments simple with code.

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Network metrics

Dashboard

TRANSACTIONS Number of transactions processed by the network in the 24 hours prior to last metrics update.

1,509,527
PER DAY

LATENCY Time for a transaction to reach finality once submitted to the network. Averaged over 15 minutes prior to last metrics update.

2.91
SECONDS TO FINALITY

ACCOUNTS Total number of accounts created on the network.

48,703
ON MAINNET

PRICE Current price provided by CoinGecko cryptocurrency data API.

USD

Last metrics update: October 23, 2020 at 00:00 UTC

Join 500+ teams building on Hedera

From innovative startups to global enterprises,

join the teams building on Hedera.

HEALTHCARE

“Hedera underpins our secure data transport layer for greater collaboration.”

MEDIA

“Hedera has proven it has the scale, speed and reliability to handle all of the live advert tracking data and programmatic event data that we have been handling in recent campaigns.”

Telecommunications

“In our research into utilizing Hedera Hashgraph for use cases both internally at Tata Communications, as well as for our customers, we’ve found security to be an obvious area of focus.”

RETAIL

“TCB’s offering will support all stakeholders in the coupon ecosystem while maintaining their current business models and enabling growth. We are thrilled to integrate the capabilities of Hedera.”

"What if anyone on Earth, at any moment, could just wave their hand and carve out a world of their own in cyberspace?"

Dr. Leemon Baird
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

A public network for everyone

Hedera is designed for fast, fair, and secure applications to take advantage of the efficiency of hashgraph on a decentralized, public network you can trust.

FAST

Achieve fast, low-latency transactions with guaranteed finality in seconds, not minutes or hours. Hedera is an order of magnitude faster than blockchain alternatives.

FAIR

Count on fair access, timestamps, and transaction ordering that can't be manipulated by malicious nodes.

SECURE

Deploy on a network with proven, best-in-class asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerant (ABFT) security that's resistant to DDoS and Sybil attacks.

STABLE

Run on a reliable network governed by term-limited enterprises with no authorized forks, and the ability to meet global data regulations.

Start

Create your account and start your journey with Hedera Hashgraph.

Learn

Get a glimpse of the future and watch the livestream replay of the Open Access virtual event.

Build

Grab your SDK, make your first transaction, and start building decentralized applications.