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.

Contributors to the Hedera codebase continually innovate based on how well the system responds to real-world traffic load and scenarios. Read this article to learn how recent efforts have resulted in an optimization in the core algorithms, specifically optimizing how nodes select events as other-parents to ensure a more efficient hashgraph is created during the consensus process.

The Beyond Blockchain Hackathon 2023 provided an opportunity for developers to delve into blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs). Here we announce and celebrate the winners of the Hackathon.

Hedera is committed to building a trusted, secure, and empowered digital future for all. The new paradigm for the internet involves the ownership of digital assets as recorded on a distributed ledger or blockchain: genuine ownership of real assets through enforceable digital scarcity and proof of provenance.

With Hedera becoming increasingly EVM-equivalent, the need to maintain a separate library like hethers.js is diminishing. Hedera core contributors are announcing the deprecation of the hethers.js library by October 20, 2023.

At 23:30 UTC on Tuesday, September 12th, the DevOps team was alerted that synthetic transactions were failing across all network proxies in the Hedera testnet. This was confirmed and an incident was declared, as testnet is a production environment with 24/7 monitoring and support.