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EMTECH and Hedera Hashgraph join forces for highly performant, trusted and energy efficient central bank blockchain infrastructure

Oct 08, 2021Hedera Team

NEW YORK, NY and Dallas, TX (Oct 8, 2021) -- EMTECH, an award winning software company modernizing central banking infrastructure for financial inclusion and resilience, with blockchain-based platforms, and Hedera Hashgraph, provider of the most used, sustainable, enterprise-grade public network for the decentralized economy, announced today a partnership to develop an enterprise-grade, highly performant, highly secure and energy efficient CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) infrastructure product.

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Introducing the Hedera Treasury Management Report

Sep 19, 2021Sam Brylski

Hedera is improving its reporting of the Hedera Council’s allocation and distribution of their pre-minted supply of hbars by launching the Hedera Treasury Management Report, a dynamic website detailing when and why such pre-minted hbars are released to an individual or entity other than Hedera.

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Sparkle Leverages Hedera Hashgraph to Launch Digital eReceipt and Universal Digital Coupon Apps

Sep 17, 2021Hedera Team

Harrow, UK, and Dallas, TX — September 17, 2021 — Sparkle has teamed up with Retail Data Systems (RDS) and Hedera Hashgraph to launch digital eReceipts and Universal Digital Coupons apps.

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Hedera Solidity Smart Contracts Bringing Highest-Speed Programmability to Tokenization

Sep 16, 2021Hedera Team

DALLAS, TX - September 16, 2021 - Hedera Hashgraph, the most used, sustainable, enterprise-grade public network for the decentralized economy, today announced an upgrade to its Smart Contract Service, which will allow developers to harness the speed and scalability of the Hedera Token Service (HTS) for fungible and non-fungible tokens with the flexibility of fast, low-fee, and industry-standard Solidity smart contracts.

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Hedera Governing Council to Allocate $5 Billion in HBAR to Independent Foundation and Ecosystem Development Initiatives

Sep 16, 2021Hedera Team

DALLAS, TX - September 16, 2021 - The Hedera Governing Council has announced the approval of a plan to allocate 10.7 billion hbars (approximately 20% of total supply), currently worth US $5 billion as of September 16th, 2021, towards the development of the Hedera ecosystem.

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IIT Madras Joins Hedera Governing Council to Drive R&D in New Blockchain Use Cases

Sep 14, 2021Hedera Team

DALLAS, TX AND CHENNAI, INDIA, 14th September 2021: Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Hedera Hashgraph, the most used, sustainable, enterprise-grade public network for the decentralized economy, today announced the newest member of its Governing Council.

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LSE Joins Hedera Governing Council to Advance Blockchain Research for Social Good

Aug 19, 2021Hedera Team

Dallas, TX and London, UK – August 19th, 2021 - Hedera Hashgraph, the most used, sustainable, enterprise-grade public network for the decentralized economy, today announced LSE as the newest member of its Governing Council.

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Filecoin and Hedera Hashgraph Announce Grant Program to Propel Web3 Interoperability

Jul 27, 2021Hedera Team

Today, Filecoin and Hedera Hashgraph are announcing a joint effort to advance the interoperability of Web3. Starting with a USD $200,000 grants program and an initial demo implementation for NFT use cases, the long-term vision is a full range of distributed ledger solutions, including distributed consensus, storage, and smart data applications, that combine the strengths of both networks.

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Acoer’s RightsHash™ Builds on Hedera to Pioneer Decentralized Management and Protection of User’s Rights

Jul 22, 2021Hedera Team

Atlanta, GA and Dallas, TX — July 22nd, 2021 — Acoer, has launched RightsHash, a decentralized software engine implemented using serverless, open APIs that provides an easy means to represent and manage an individual’s rights and protections as discrete, globally unique digital assets.