Starting February 1, 2024, a new testnet faucet enables developers to anonymously collect up to 100 test HBAR every 24 hours. Also, the allocation of test HBAR for Hedera Portal accounts is now 1,000 tokens every 24 hours with a manual request. In addition, API keys are now available from the Hedera Portal for re-creating accounts and querying account ID information programmatically after testnet and previewnet resets. The goal of these changes is to continuously improve the development experience on Hedera.

January 2024 highlights: Hitachi joins Hedera Council, Hedera Wallet Snap on MetaMask goes live, new Building on Hedera Course launched, and DeRec Alliance formed. Join the Wallet Snap webinar and share feedback on Hedera docs!

In 2022 Hedera Governing Council member, eftpos joined with BPAY Group and NPP Australia to form Australian Payments Plus (AP+). As such, AP+ is now a member of the Hedera Governing Council, effective immediately.

This blog reflects my own observations, on the intersectionality of AI, DLT, Tokenization and Web3 to humanity as a takeaway from the inspiring sessions in Davos. This convergence is reshaping industries, economies, and the very fabric of our society.

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.