HIP-991 extends the functionality of the Hedera Consensus Service, turning it into a powerful revenue engine for developers, AI agents, and businesses. With permissionless revenue-generating topic IDs, the ecosystem now has native economic tools to monetize topics with high degrees of programmability and control.

This month, we delve into significant developments that are shaping the future of the Hedera network. Highlights include the transition of Hedera's codebase to the Hiero project under the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, insightful articles on real estate tokenization by Nadine Loepfe, and updates on recent Hedera Improvement Proposals (HIPs).

The inaugural HederaCon 2025–Hedera’s first user conference since 2018–proved that great things happen when the community comes together. On February 25th, more than 600 community members, developers, founders, and industry leaders gathered in Denver for a jam-packed day of industry insights, technical deep dives, and an exploration of the big ideas shaping the digital economy.

In Part 2 of this series covering REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) in web3, we'll examine the why's and how's of real-world asset tokenization to explore the potential this emerging technology has to revolutionize property investment.

Hedera proudly sponsored the BUIDLWeek hackathon at ETHDenver 2025. Challenges for developers offered a total of US$50,000 in prizes. These are the winners!

Explore how a modern Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) could be built today using Web3 technologies.

Here are the results and the winning teams of the Hello Future Hackathon 2.0 taking home a prize pool with a total value of $300,000 USD!

Asset Tokenization Studio, built on Hedera with key contributions from ioBuilders, is an open-source solution designed to simplify the tokenization of real-world assets like bonds and equities. This blog takes a deep dive into its features, architecture, and how it leverages Hedera to modernize asset management.

In a groundbreaking move, Hedera has donated its entire codebase—including all services, SDKs, and development tools—to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) under the Hiero project. In this blog, we explore the strategic and technical implications of this transition, the benefits of open governance, and how Hiero’s collaborative framework sets a new standard for decentralized open-source development.