Davos, Switzerland – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting - Thursday January 18th 2024 - In a groundbreaking move towards AI integrity, EQTY Lab, a leading responsible AI company, proudly announces the release of ClimateGPT on the Hugging Face community AI platform.

January 16, 2024 — MetaMask Snaps, an innovative plugin that provides access to MetaMask’s 30 million monthly active users, is now available on Hedera, the open-source, leaderless proof-of-stake network powering the next generation of the web.

January 15, 2024 – Davos, Switzerland – The Hedera Council today announced its newest member, Hitachi America, Ltd. (Hitachi), which brings with it industrial solutions expertise. Hitachi offers a broad range of electronics, power and industrial equipment and services, energy, industrial, health care, IT, OT, mobility and IoT with operations throughout the Americas directly and through its subsidiaries.

The Hedera Council today announced that it has voted to give the board approval to allocate 4.86 billion HBARs of additional funds toward further development of the Hedera network and enabling its decentralized governance.

This year has seen significant progress and development across numerous projects within the Hedera ecosystem. WallectConnect integrations for Hedera were developed and led by dozens of community members in a remarkable, collaborative effort. Learn how this community-led initiative enables any wallet on Hedera to work seamlessly and securely with any dApp on the network.

December 13, 2023 - Las Vegas, NV - The Hedera Council today announced the appointment of Charles Adkins as its new President.

Paris, France — 29 November — Électricité de France (EDF), one of the world's largest electricity producers, the largest renewable energy producer in Europe, and an active member of the Hedera Council, has successfully completed a proof-of-concept (POC) that aims to revolutionize and automate the management of renewable energy certificates (RECs).

The ability to verify smart contracts is crucial for various applications, especially in the DeFi sector. Introducing Smart Contract Verification on Hedera bolsters transparency and security between smart contract owners and users. This verification process is integral in establishing trust in the smart contracts deployed on the Hedera network.

The publicly reported transaction count on Hedera does not include the intra-node gossip communication needed to reach consensus. Only transactions submitted and paid for by external parties are included in the TPS count. Read this article to learn how to calculate TPS count from on-chain data anyone can access.