After 6 weeks of hacking, the Hedera22 - Hello Smart Contract hackathon has come to an end. With over 2500 participants, across 95 countries and 118 projects submitted, we couldn’t have been more thrilled with the diversity and quality of projects that teams build utilizing the new Hedera Smart Contract Service. Let’s take a look at the winning projects.

In this blog posting, we focus on NFT “metadata” — more specifically “JSON schema” and how this new set of official standards called “HIP-412” just changed the game for everyone.

The JSON-RPC Relay makes it easy for existing libraries, development tools, and wallets to work effortlessly on Hedera. Examples include support for wallets, such as Metamask, libraries, such as ethers.js and web3.js, and developer tools, such as Truffle and Hardhat.

San Francisco, CA — May 18, 2022 - TRM Labs, the leader in blockchain intelligence solutions, along with crypto industry leaders including Circle, Solana Foundation, The Aave Companies, Hedera, Binance.US and Civic, have today announced the launch of a new community-powered scam reporting platform, Chainabuse, which empowers anyone in the crypto economy to warn others about scams, hacks or other fraudulent activity as they encounter it.

MENTOR, OH / DALLAS, TX. – May 12, 2022 - Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) today announced that it is partnering with the HBAR Foundation on sustainability initiatives.

Dallas, TX – April 29, 2022 – As part of the Hedera Governing Council’s decisions to enable broader market participation on the Hedera network (originally announced on January 19, 2022), Mance Harmon and Dr. Leemon Baird have left their roles as CEO and Chief Scientist of Hedera Hashgraph, LLC, respectively, and have assumed new roles as co-CEOs of Swirlds Labs.

The organic growth and adoption of NFTs on Hedera has been explosive. In this blog posting, we’ll dive into both on-ledger and marketplace-specific adoption metrics for NFTs, why people are choosing Hedera for NFT use cases, and how to get started with NFTs as a collector, creator, or ecosystem developer.

For Earth Day 2022, Envision Blockchain is proud to announce the release of the 2.0 version of the Guardian. Guardian v2.0 delivers new features to expand on what was built and grow the Hedera Guardian ecosystem.

Schwyz, Switzerland, 20th April 2022 – Hedera Hashgraph has entered into a strategic partnership with Swiss Digital Assets Institute (SDAI) – a professional training and education company – for the delivery of a custom-designed global “Hashgraph Innovation Program” out of Switzerland.