December 7, 2022 - The Hedera Governing Council, a consortium of leading organizations who operate the open source, hashgraph-powered, carbon-negativeHedera network for Web3 applications, has appointed two new members of the executive team.

An NFT is comprised of three separate items: the NFT entry itself stored on the ledger, the metadata file usually stored on IPFS and the image file, also held on IPFS. Hedera Token Service and IFPS together provide a strong foundation for NFTs, so why should you care about how it works under the hood?

Pseudorandom numbers are used in applications like lotteries, gaming, and even random selection in NFT giveaways. In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate random numbers on Hedera using the JavaScript SDK and Solidity.

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NFT royalty fees allow you to charge a fractional fee when transferring NFTs between users or set a fallback fixed fee. But what about NFT royalty fee edge cases? This blog post looks at questions such as what happens when a user is not associated with the fallback fee and no fungible value is exchanged, or the user doesn't have any fallback fee balance.

The recording shows ServiceNow managing Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) through a manual data collection and tokenization workflow. The same approach applies across virtually all policies for tokenized ESG assets like the GHG Protocol or Verra.

The implementation of HIP-573 in mainnet release v0.31 (November 10th, 2022) enables token creators whose tokenomics require custom fees and different collection accounts to exempt collectors from paying custom fees when exchanging token units. Learn now how to create a fungible token with multiple fee collectors and discover what happens when you transfer some tokens from one collector to another.

In use cases like DeFi, contracts often need to mint, burn, or transfer 0 units of a token due to integer rounding. The implementation of HIP-564 in release 0.31 of Hedera Services enables smart contract developers to specify a zero value for contract functions performing token operations. In this article, you will learn how to use this capability on Hedera.