Hedera Highlights: 2025 Wrap-Up
This special edition of Hedera Highlights unwraps the major milestones, ecosystem growth, and momentum made in 2025.
Hedera Developer Highlights December 2025
We’re wrapping up the year with a curated selection of the 10 best technical resources from 2025, celebrating what made it a standout year for building on Hedera. Plus, we’re excited to announce Hedera DevDay in Denver on February 17, 2026, a hands-on, community-first event alongside ETHDenver. Thanks for being part of an incredible year!
Hedera in 2025: Building the trust layer
Hedera had a big year in 2025: institutional tokenization going live, HashSphere enabling hybrid networks, verifiable AI tooling gaining momentum, and growing engagement with policymakers and regulators. Alongside governance updates, new partners, stronger security, better developer onboarding, and a more active community, 2025 set the foundation for scaling in 2026.
An End-of-Year Note to the Hedera Community
As we close out another remarkable year for Hedera, I find myself reflecting not only on the progress of the network, but on the people behind it—builders, council members, ecosystem teams, entrepreneurs, educators, and community members who show up every day with conviction and creativity.
Hedera Council Welcomes Global Energy Giant Repsol to Advance Web3 Adoption and Digital Identity Standards
Repsol, a global energy company, has joined Hedera Council to accelerate the adoption of Web3 technologies in the energy sector, with a strong focus on Decentralized Digital Identity (DID) as a foundational element for trust, security, and efficiency in business interactions.
Hedera Council Welcomes GBBC as First Strategic Partner
As Hedera continues to scale, strategic collaboration and shared innovation remain at the heart of its success. Today, Hedera Council is proud to welcome Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) as the first Hedera Council Strategic Partner. This is an important step in expanding global engagement across the Hedera ecosystem, and it reflects a shared commitment to building trusted, real world web3 solutions.
Hedera Highlights November 2025
This month’s Hedera Highlights brings major news: Hedera integrated the ERC-3643 token standard into Asset Tokenization Studio, Hedera Council announces new partnership program, Hedera members convene in London, VictorAI kicks off Hedera’s prediction markets era, HederaCon Miami 2026 registration opens and Hello Future Hackathon: Ascension begins.
Hedera Block Nodes in Private Preview
Block nodes – a new node type being launched in 2026 – will be the decentralized data lake of the Hedera network. In November 2025, the Hashgraph team deployed a private preview of council-operated Block Nodes in previewnet, testnet, and mainnet. This milestone begins the validation of HIP 1056 Block Streams and HIP 1081 Block Nodes. Over the coming months, engineering teams will continue to refine the software and hardware requirements for block nodes. Read the article and learn what this means for you.
Querying Data on Hedera: SDK vs Mirror Node REST API
When building applications on Hedera, a key action you will need to perform is querying entity data, such as account balances or transaction history. This article outlines the available options for querying network data and highlights why the Mirror Node REST API is the recommended method for production applications.
Hedera Developer Highlights November 2025
The November Developer Highlights are here! Discover a revamped Hedera Portal and a fully refreshed docs experience with our migration to Mintlify. You’ll also find new technical deep dives like Batch Transactions and Asset Tokenization Studio, plus a showcase of community projects like Neuron and Hgraph’s new MCP Server for AI integrations.