At Hedera, we’re constantly looking at ways that we can improve our onboarding experience for new developers and enthusiasts within our community - always with a goal to become the most widely used distributed public ledger in the market. I’m excited to share the first of a variety of new changes to the Hedera website, portal, and documentation that we’ve made as part of these ongoing efforts.

While you may be familiar with Hedera’s unique consensus algorithm, hashgraph, which (even while throttled) allows us to process 10,000+ cryptocurrency transactions per second - or our Governing Council, which LG and Avery Dennison recently joined, there are a number of notable differences in functionality between our network and the likes of Ethereum, Polkadot, or EOS. Let’s dive into a few of the lesser-known things that you can do with Hedera “out of the box”.

3IEIO is the first known application in Hedera’s ecosystem to put the DID specification to use, and the first HRTech solution in the world to leverage such technology. DID is the very concept needed to not only help build a “Verified Workforce Reputation” and protect it, but can also grow to be the same profile that will one day encompass an individual's education credentials, certifications, CV, licensure, and more.

Since open access of the Hedera mainnet on September 16th, 2019, we’ve openly discussed and placed milestones on our product roadmap to open source all of Hedera’s developer tools and network services — including the Consensus Service, Cryptocurrency, Smart Contract, and File Service.

Hedera recently hosted its very first monthly “Engineering Insights” webinar, hosted by Donald Thibeau, Director of Product Management, and attended by members of the Hedera developer community.

By leveraging the resources available from Hedera and DragonGlass, HumanKind went from having no prior experience with Hedera Hashgraph, to building a robust, award-winning decentralized marketplace in a few short weeks. Learn more about the application they started building during the Hedera20 virtual hackathon, which uses cryptoeconomic incentive mechanisms to award good deeds, and hear direct technical insights from their team in this blog post.

The Hedera previewnet will use a codebase that's still under development by the Hedera team. It’s designed to offer developers early exposure to features and functionalities that will eventually make their way to the mainnet.

Dallas, TX, and Sydney - 22 July 2020 - eftpos Payments Australia is collaborating with global distributed ledger company, Hedera Hashgraph, on a micropayments proof-of-concept that aims to create a seamless Australian payment experience for web users by providing an alternative to traditional online paywalls and subscriptions.

Swansea, UK — 9 July 2020 — AdsDax, a decentralized advertising platform and marketplace to create, buy, verify, and sell advertising, has recorded over 1 billion advert events on the Hedera Hashgraph mainnet, marking the biggest ever effort by any ad-tech provider to shift the advertising industry towards blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT).