Hello future | Hedera Hedera Network Services Token Service Mint and configure tokens and accounts. Consensus Service Verifiable timestamps and ordering of events. Smart Contracts Run Solidity smart contracts. HBAR The Hedera network's native cryptocurrency. Insights How It Works Learn about Hedera from end to end. Explorers View live and historical data on Hedera. Dashboards Analyze network activity and metrics. Network Nodes Understand networks and node types. Devs Start Building Get Started Learn core concepts and build the future. Documentation Review the API and build using your favorite language. Developer Resources Integrations Plugins and microservices for Hedera. Fee Estimator Understand and estimate transaction costs. Open Source Hedera is committed to open, transparent code. Learning Center Learn about web3 and blockchain technologies. Grants Grants & accelerators for your project. Bounties Find bugs. Submit a report. Earn rewards. Ecosystem ECOSYSTEM Hedera Ecosystem Applications, developer tools, network explorers, and more. NFT Ecosystem Metrics Analyze on-chain and market NFT ecosystem metrics. CATEGORIES Web3 Applications Connect into the innovative startups decentralizing the web on Hedera. Enterprise Applications Learn about the Fortune 500 companies decentralizing the web on Hedera. Wallets & Custodians Create a Hedera account to manage HBAR, fungible tokens, and NFTs. Network Explorers Hedera mainnet and testnet graphical network explorers. Developer Tooling Third-party APIs, integrations, and plugins to build apps on Hedera. Grants & Accelerators Boost your project with support from the Hedera ecosystem. Partner Program Explore our partners to bring your vision into reality. Hedera Council Over 30 highly diversified organizations govern Hedera. Use Cases Hedera Solutions Asset Tokenization Studio Open source toolkit for tokenizing assets securely. Stablecoin Studio All-in-one toolkit for stablecoin solutions. Hedera Guardian Auditable carbon markets and traceability. Functional Use Cases Data Integrity & AI Reliable, secure, and ethically governed insights. Sustainability Enabling fair carbon markets with trust. Real-World Asset Tokenization Seamless tokenization of real-world assets and digital at scale. Consumer Engagement & Loyalty Mint, distribute, and redeem loyalty rewards. Decentralized Identity Maintain the lifecycle of credentials. Decentralized Logs Scalable, real-time timestamped events. DeFi Dapps built for the next-generation of finance. NFTs Low, fixed fees. Immutable royalties. Payments Scalable, real-time, and affordable crypto-payments. HBAR Overview Learn about Hedera's token, HBAR. Treasury Management Hedera’s report of the HBAR supply. Governance Decentralized Governance Hedera Council See the world's leading organizations that own Hedera. About Meet Hedera's Board of Directors and team. Journey Watch Hedera's journey to build an empowered digital future for all. Transparent Governance Public Policy Hedera's mission is to inform policy and regulation that impact the industry. Meeting Minutes Immutably recorded on Hedera. Roadmap Follow Hedera's roadmap in its journey to build the future. Resources Company What's New Partners Papers Careers Media Blog Technical Press Podcast Community Events Meetups Store Brand Navigation QUICKSTART Articles tagged with #technical What is gRPC, gRPC-Web, and Proxies? Apr 28, 2025Ed Marquez Learn what gRPC-Web proxies are, why they are used in the Hiero JS SDK, and the role they play in enabling browser-based Hedera applications. Read article Hedera Release Cycle Overview Apr 01, 2025Ed Marquez Learn how the Hiero consensus node codebase evolves over time, the purpose of each Hedera environment, and what Hedera’s move to open-source development (via Project Hiero) means for the release process. Read article How Would We Build a REIT Today Using Web3 Technologies? Feb 13, 2025Nadine Loepfe Explore how a modern Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) could be built today using Web3 technologies. Read article Leveraging Hedera’s Architecture: Sirio’s Oracle-Free Price Feed Approach Jan 02, 2025Mica Cerone By leveraging Hedera's architecture, Sirio integrates TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) calculations and HBAR/USD conversions, ensuring secure, resilient price feeds. This oracle-free method not only enabled seamless development but now enhances the protocol's security as a backup to traditional oracles. Read article Introducing Block Streams: A Unified Data Stream Capturing the Comprehensive History of the Hedera Network Dec 27, 2024Mark Blackman Hedera is revolutionizing how blockchain data is consumed with the introduction of Block Streams, a unified format that consolidates existing event, record, and sidecar streams. This innovation simplifies data handling while offering developers enhanced verifiability, streamlined integration, and powerful new capabilities like state proofs and interledger communication. Read article Hedera Enhances Network Management With the Dynamic Address Book Dec 11, 2024Mark Blackman The Dynamic Address Book on Hedera, introduced in HIP-869, marks a significant step toward decentralization by empowering node operators to manage their entries directly through secure, verifiable transactions. Explore how this update revolutionizes Address Book management and supports a decentralized ecosystem. Read article Capture Your Contributions to the Hedera Ecosystem in the Electric Capital Developer Report Oct 22, 2024Ed Marquez The Electric Capital Developer Report is a valuable resource for tracking developer activity across blockchain ecosystems, including Hedera. Add your project contributions to gain visibility for your work and tell the world about the innovation happening in the Hedera ecosystem. Read article Pricing Smart Contracts Oct 08, 2024Paul Madsen Hedera charges fees based on the burden a particular smart contract transaction or query places on the nodes of the network. Although the concept originated from Ethereum, there are subtle yet key differences on Hedera. Read article Introducing HIP-850: Enhancing Supply Key Functionality for NFT Updates in Treasury Account Sep 10, 2024Oliver Thorn HIP-850 - to be implemented on the network as the mainnet upgrades to v0.53 soon - proposes a significant enhancement to the Hedera ecosystem by granting Supply Keys the ability to update NFT metadata while the NFTs reside in the treasury account (the specified account that receives tokens created as the result of a Token Mint operation). Read article Announcing HIP-540: Enhanced Token Key Management on Hedera Jun 21, 2024Michiel Mulders HIP-540 enhances token creation on Hedera by enabling the removal or modification of keys, improving flexibility and security. It allows lower privileged keys to update to invalid keys, reducing risks for NFT holders and treasury. Update your SDK to the latest version to try out this functionality. Read article Deprecation: Token Information No Longer Returned for Three Consensus Node Queries Jun 03, 2024Devin Saxon Token information returned by getAccountInfo, getAccountBalance, and getContractInfo will be deprecated in the near future. Exchanges, wallets, and dapp developers can access equivalent information from the mirror node REST API. Read article Enabling Dynamic NFTs on Hedera: Exploring HIP-646, HIP-657, and HIP-765 May 28, 2024Michiel Mulders Dynamic NFTs, enabled by mutable metadata fields, are a significant development in the Hedera ecosystem. This blog explores how three Hedera Improvement Proposals—HIP 646, HIP 657, and HIP 765—enhance token metadata and add a token metadata key to revolutionize digital ownership for creators and users. Read article The Evolution of Hedera Services: Modularization in v0.49 May 22, 2024Hedera Team The release of services software version v0.49 in May 2024 introduces a significant engineering update to the core code run by Hedera consensus nodes. This article expands on the details and benefits of the modularization effort and outlines the rigorous testing processes undertaken to ensure software reliability. Read article Account Abstraction at the Protocol Level Feb 14, 2024Brendan Graetz This article will cover the account abstraction concept in a nutshell, how Web3 adoption is held back and how account abstraction removes the barrier, protocol-level account abstraction and how it differs from current account abstraction implementations, and Hedera’s unique capabilities among EVM networks that enable protocol-level account abstraction. Read article Introducing a New Testnet Faucet and Hedera Portal Changes Feb 01, 2024Hedera Team 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. Read article Smart Contract Verification on Hedera Nov 20, 2023Keith Kowal 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. Read article Hedera Processes Thousands of Transactions Per Second… See How that Number is Calculated Nov 01, 2023Ed Marquez 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. Read article Streamlining Consensus: Throughput and Lower Latency with (about) Half the Events Oct 26, 2023Hedera Team 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. Read article Hethers.js Being Deprecated in Favor of EVM Tooling Oct 02, 2023Hedera Team 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. Read article Develop a Hedera DApp with MetaMask, HashPack, and Blade Integration Jun 27, 2023Abi Castro In this step-by-step guide, we'll show you how to create a Hedera DApp using React, Material UI, Ethers, and TypeScript. With the help of the Create React App (CRA) Hedera DApp template, you'll be able to seamlessly integrate popular wallets like MetaMask, Hashpack, and Blade. You'll learn how to query the mirror node and incorporate HTS features, enabling users to effortlessly manage and transact with HTS tokens. Read article How to Create ChatGPT Plugins - Unlock the Power of AI and Blockchain Jun 22, 2023Ed Marquez AI and blockchain are two technological trends that have captured everyone’s attention. The learning aspect of AI, coupled with Blockchain's immutable nature, introduces a revolutionary change in how data can be processed and utilized. In this article, you'll see how to combine the strengths of AI and blockchain technology by creating a ChatGPT plugin that interacts with Hedera. Read article Hedera Smart Contract Service Security Model Update Jun 08, 2023Nana Essilfie-Conduah Hedera consensus nodes must strike a delicate balance between Hedera security and EVM security models. The latest security model for Hedera smart contracts provides greater clarity and additional protections relative to its predecessor. Read article Get Ready for the Updated Security Model of the Hedera Smart Contract Service by July 2023 May 04, 2023Ed Marquez The security model of the Hedera Smart Contract Service has been updated with the mainnet services release v0.35.2 (March 2023). The updated model aligns the behaviors of the Hedera Smart Contract Service token system contracts with those of EVM and typical token APIs such as ERC 20 and ERC 721. Read this article to learn specifically what changed, what it means for developers, and what actions you should take. Read article How to Create a Smart Contract App on Hedera Using Solidity, React JS, MetaMask, and Ethers JS – A Simple Counter May 02, 2023Ed Marquez In this step-by-step tutorial, you will create a simple counter dApp on the Hedera network using Solidity, React JS, MetaMask, and Ethers JS. The goal with this example is to help you understand the fundamentals of dApp development, making it easier for you to create more complex dApps in the future. Read article How to Create an HBAR Token Faucet for MetaMask Apr 03, 2023Abi Castro In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the process of connecting to MetaMask using create react app. We'll also guide you through the steps to transfer HBAR to the MetaMask wallet. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a solid understanding of how to seamlessly integrate MetaMask into your Hedera decentralized application. So, let's get started! 🎉 Read article The Rise of the Identity Token Feb 23, 2023Keith Kowal The vision of Soulbound tokens is visionary, expansive, and controversial. The name “Soulbound” entices excitement and groans in most conversations. I would argue that there are a few reasons why neither kind of Identity Token described above realizes the Soulbound Token vision as it has been articulated. Read article Hedera Token Service: NFT Token Keys Edge Cases Feb 07, 2023Michiel Mulders Learn more about the possibilities of token keys and their edge cases. In this blog post, you'll find technical examples showing you what token keys can do. Read article How to Inspect Smart Contract Transactions on Hedera Using Mirror Nodes Jan 22, 2023Ed Marquez This tutorial helps smart contract developers understand the traceability information for contract transactions that is provided by the mirror nodes. Specifically, you will learn how to view contract actions, state changes, and logs. Read article Introducing the Hedera NFT SDK for JavaScript Jan 16, 2023Michiel Mulders Learn about all the features of the new Hedera NFT SDK for JavaScript. Read article Smart Contract Rent on Hedera – Part 2: How to Pay Jan 13, 2023Ed Marquez Learn how you can get your contracts ready to make rent payments and avoid expiration Read article Smart Contract Rent on Hedera - Part 1: What You Need to Know Jan 11, 2023Ed Marquez This blog post explains Hedera's pricing structure and renewal windows for contract rent payments. Smart contract rent is a key topic of discussion by Leemon and others in the layer 1 network space. Rent fees are an economically and technically viable approach to manage smart contract state storage. Read article How to Make Sure Your Hedera NFT Metadata Is Correct Jan 09, 2023Michiel Mulders Metadata determines the health of your NFT. How to structure your metadata correctly to make it easier for NFT tooling to scrape and interpret your NFT. Read article How to Set Up Foundry to Test Smart Contracts on Hedera Jan 04, 2023Abi Castro The ability to write tests for Smart Contracts using solidity allows for more efficient testing leading to catching more bugs early on and providing security to your users. Learn how to set up Foundry on your Hedera project to start testing now! Read article How to Generate a Random Number on Hedera Dec 05, 2022Ed Marquez 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. Read article NFT Royalty Fees: Everything You Need To Know (Edge-cases Included) Nov 14, 2022Michiel Mulders 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. Read article How to Exempt Hedera Accounts from Custom Token Fees Oct 28, 2022Francesco Coacci 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. Read article How to Pass Zero Token Values to Hedera Contracts Oct 28, 2022Ed Marquez 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. Read article How to Auto-Create Hedera Accounts with HBAR and Token Transfers Oct 26, 2022Abi Castro In this tutorial learn how to auto-create Hedera accounts by sending HBAR and tokens to an alias. Read article Create Testnet Accounts with ED25519 and ECDSA Keys from the Hedera Portal - Back to the Basics Oct 14, 2022Ed Marquez The Hedera Portal is where developers create test accounts that enable building applications in development, risk-free, and cost-free environments (testnet, preview, or local network). The portal is a vital part of the Hedera ecosystem because it is effectively an onramp onto Hedera test networks and a faucet for test HBAR. This article provides an overview of the Hedera Portal and shows how you can start creating testnet accounts that use different types of keys. Read article How to Approve Fungible Token and NFT Allowances on Hedera – Part 1: Using the SDK Oct 10, 2022Ed Marquez Allowances grant another account the right to transfer HBAR, fungible tokens, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from your account. This tutorial series shows you how to approve allowances for fungible tokens and NFTs. Part 1 focuses on approving token allowances using the Hedera JavaScript SDK. Read article How to Approve HBAR Allowances on Hedera Using the SDK Oct 07, 2022Ed Marquez Allowances grant another account the right to transfer HBAR, fungible tokens, and non-fungible tokens from your account. This tutorial shows you how to approve HBAR allowances using the Hedera JavaScript SDK. Read article Leveraging Ethereum Developer Tools On Hedera Aug 25, 2022Abi Castro The JSON-RPC Relay provides excellent usability for developers with existing workflows dependent on Ethereum developer tools like Truffle, Web3js, Ethers, and Hardhat to seamlessly build on Hedera. In addition, it makes it easy to integrate with Metamask. Read article How to Send and Receive HBAR Using Smart Contracts – Part 2: Using Solidity Aug 19, 2022Ed Marquez Learn how to send and receive HBAR to and from Hedera contracts. Part 1 of the series focused on using the Hedera SDKs. This second part goes over transferring HBAR to and from contracts using Solidity. Read article The CREATE2 Opcode on Hedera: An Introduction Aug 05, 2022Cooper Thompson The Hedera network provides a powerful decentralized platform, supporting native tokenization, robust smart contracts, and more. HIP-329 introduced the ability to use the CREATE2 opcode on the Hedera network. The power of CREATE2 comes from the deterministic nature of the deployment, meaning the address is easy to compute even before a smart contract gets deployed to the address. Pairing the predictable low fees and scalability of Hedera with the power of the CREATE2 opcode enables users to build incredible user experiences. Read this article for an introduction to the CREATE2 opcode. Read article Staking on Hedera for Developers – Back to the Basics Jul 29, 2022Ed Marquez In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure staking options for Hedera accounts and contracts programmatically. Perhaps you need to integrate these staking capabilities with wallets, decentralized applications, marketplaces, or other cool things you may be building on Hedera. Read article How to Send and Receive HBAR Using Smart Contracts – Part 1: Using the SDK Jul 20, 2022Ed Marquez Smart contracts on Hedera can hold and exchange value in the form of HBAR, Hedera Token Service (HTS) tokens, and even ERC tokens. This is fundamental for building decentralized applications that rely on contracts in areas like DeFi, ESG, NFT marketplaces, DAOs, and more. In this tutorial, you will learn how to send and receive HBAR to and from Hedera contracts. Part 1 focuses on using the Hedera SDKs. Read article Creating Soulbound Token Ecosystems on Hedera Jun 14, 2022Keith Kowal There is a new buzzword in Web3 Identity - “Soulbound Tokens” - a very expressive name for non-transferable non-fungible tokens (NFTs) intended to represent an aspect of someone's identity, skills, or qualifications. In this posting, we consider what an early implementation of Soulbound Tokens might look like, and how they can be easily implemented on the Hedera network, leveraging the powerful capabilities of the Hedera Token Service (HTS). Read article How to Set Up Your Own Hedera Local Network Using Docker Jun 14, 2022Abi Castro The Hedera Local Node is available for developers to start testing and debugging their applications. This article will focus on setting up your local network, starting it, and ensuring that it is operating correctly by submitting transactions and then querying your local mirror node. Read article Rolling Smart Contract Hedera API Fees into Gas Fees Jun 14, 2022Atul Mahamuni Core contributors are now focused on an important pricing update for the Hedera Smart Contract service, recently approved by the Coin Committee of the Hedera Governing Council. This update rolls Smart Contract Hedera API (HAPI) fees into gas fees and removes the cover charge for HAPI fees when making a ContractCall transaction. Read article Anything you can do, you can do on Hedera: Introducing the JSON-RPC Relay May 18, 2022Atul Mahamuni 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. Read article Guardian v2.0: The next generation of ESG marketplaces built on Hedera Apr 22, 2022Daniel Norkin 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. Read article Multi-Game Economies Apr 15, 2022John Conway Gamers spend on average 14.8 hours per week gaming, with many going even further beyond that—to the point of it becoming a second job. What if this hobby could become profitable for the average gamer? Previous articles covered the subjects of HCS-based game records and its possible use cases. This third article synthesizes these concepts into a new subject: multi-game economies. Read article HashConnect Part 1 - Secure Signing for dApps Built on Hedera Apr 04, 2022HashPack Team HashConnect is an open source library that is developed by the HashPack team. This library enables decentralized applications (dApps) to connect to a user’s wallet and send transactions for them to sign and submit to the Hedera network nodes. Read article Meet Venin, a concise yet powerful SDK alternative for JS Devs Apr 01, 2022Buidler Labs To build dApps, one has the raw power of the official SDK at their disposal; but what if that's sometimes too much? What if there was a more human-centric way of writing code similar to other mature, well-known tools in this space of Smart Contract development? Tools such as the likes of ethers, hardhat or ganache, to name but a few? Well now you can! Succinct, bold and expressive; programming on Hedera has never been this easy! Read article Smart contract rent is coming to Hedera Mar 31, 2022Gehrig Kunz All Hedera entities will require renewal fees. Solidity smart contracts are the first. Get to know the lifecycle of entities and your options to design self-sustaining Solidity smart contracts. Read article Use Cases for HCS-Based Records in Play-to-Earn/NFT Gaming Mar 29, 2022John Conway “Play-to-Earn” gaming has grown to a $3 Billion dollar market in less than a year, and investors are taking notice. The era of play-to-earn gaming has begun, presenting an exciting new frontier for game development – as well as several potential pitfalls. All the risks associated with decentralized finance are also present in play-to-earn, namely smart contract exploits. But the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) offers a solution to these inherent problems. Read article Unblocking and unloading: The speed secrets behind Hedera Smart Contracts 2.0 Mar 10, 2022Hedera Team The Smart Contracts 2.0 service utilizes the Hyperledger Besu EVM. As part of the preparation a number of performance optimizations were contributed by Hedera to the Hyperleger codebase. Hedera’s implementation is completely open-source but developers of the service have received questions around the specific optimizations implemented and we wanted to summarize what’s been improved. Read article How to Get Event Information from Hedera Smart Contracts Feb 09, 2022Ed Marquez Events in Solidity provide a way to log things and actions that take place in your smart contracts. In this article, you will learn how to get human-readable event information from contract logs using transaction records and mirror nodes. Read article Hedera Hashgraph Announces Mainnet Launch of EVM-Compatible Smart Contracts 2.0 Feb 02, 2022Hedera Team Dallas, TX - Feb 3, 2022 - Hedera Hashgraph, the most used, sustainable, enterprise-grade public network for the decentralized economy, today announced a significant upgrade through the mainnet launch of the Hedera Smart Contracts 2.0. Read article How to Deploy Smart Contracts on Hedera – Part 1: A Simple Getter and Setter Contract Jan 26, 2022Ed Marquez The Hedera Smart Contract Service enables you to build decentralized applications and protocols that scale with Solidity smart contracts. Recent updates to this service include Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) upgrades, database architecture modifications, and support for Hedera Token Service. Whether you’re new to smart contract development or migrating from another smart contract platform, use Hedera to develop and deploy fast, low-cost, and carbon-negative smart contracts. In this article you will learn how to write a getter-setter smart contract in Solidity and deploy it on the Hedera network. Read article Introduction to Solidity smart contracts Jan 20, 2022Waylon Jepsen Solidity is the world's most popular way to write smart contracts. Hedera Smart Contracts 2.0 is a more scalable way to run smart contracts on the Hedera network. Understand the basics of Solidity and the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Read article Smart contracts 2.0 now on the Hedera testnet Jan 20, 2022Gehrig Kunz Smart contracts play a critical role in building the trust layer of the internet. Used to manage autonomous logic that doesn’t rely on a centralized intermediary, server, or custom governance model, smart contracts can power core infrastructure like decentralized finance. While the Hedera Smart Contract Service is EVM compatible and runs Solidity, with the availability of Smart Contracts 2.0 on the Hedera testnet it now does so with a few added bonuses as only Hedera and the soon to be open-sourced hashgraph can. Read article How to Look Up Transaction History on Hedera Using Mirror Nodes - Back to the Basics Jan 13, 2022Ed Marquez With the high number of transactions that the Hedera Network is able to process every second, keeping this transaction history in all the network nodes for all time would eventually turn those nodes into massive data centers. Mirror nodes help address that issue by separating the consensus operations and the record keeping. In this article you will learn about mirror nodes and how to use them for your applications. Read article How to Start Developing on Hedera: Back to the Basics Nov 19, 2021Ed Marquez In this blog post, you will learn how you can start developing on the Hedera network today. After reading this article you will have everything you need to start developing, understand the essentials to begin, and know where to get help. Read article Hashgraph Chess Nov 17, 2021John Conway In this article, we hear from community member John Conway on his experience building a Chess Application on the Hedera Consensus service. John goes into the tech stack he used, the development process, and what he learned. Read article Get started with the Hedera Token Service - Part 3: How to Pause, Freeze, Wipe, and Delete NFTs Nov 09, 2021Ed Marquez Learn how to use HTS capabilities that help you manage your tokens. More specifically, you will see how to pause a token, freeze an account, wipe a token, and delete a token. Read article Get Started with the Hedera Token Service - Part 2: KYC, Update, and Scheduled Transactions Nov 03, 2021Ed Marquez Learn how to take advantage of the flexibility you get when you create and configure your tokens with HTS. More specifically, you will enable and disable a KYC flag for a token, update token properties, and schedule transactions (like a token transfer). Read article Get Started with the Hedera Token Service - Part 1: How to Mint NFTs Oct 26, 2021Ed Marquez Hedera Token Service (HTS) enables you to configure, mint, and manage tokens on the Hedera network without the need to set up and deploy a smart contract. Tokens are as fast, fair, and secure as hbar and cost a fraction of 1¢ USD to transfer. Let’s look at some of the functionality available to you with HTS. Read article Mapping Hedera Token Service Standards to ERC20, ERC721, & ERC1155 Sep 26, 2021Greg Scullard At Hedera, we’re often asked how Hedera Token Service (HTS) tokens map to the most ubiquitous fungible and non-fungible token models: ERC20, ERC721, and ERC1155. Let’s dive deeper into the Hedera Token Service and highlight how Hedera token models and ERC token models overlap. Read article Developer Quick-Start: NFTs and Metadata Sep 02, 2021Waylon Jepsen Developers looking to utilize NFTs on Hedera can reference this developer quick-start tutorial to start building NFTs right into their application. We’ll dive into a few real-world use cases and learn how to mint an NFT for them using code examples. Read article Developer Quick-Start: Custom Token Fees Sep 02, 2021Waylon Jepsen In this blog posting, we’re going to outline specific application use cases for custom token fees and code examples to help you get started. The official Hedera SDKs in Java, Javascript, and Go all support custom token fees. Read article New Hedera Token Service Features: NFTs, Metadata, and Custom Fees Sep 02, 2021Brady Gentile HIP-17: NFT (Non-Fungible Token) Support and HIP-18: Custom Hedera Token Service Fees are available in Hedera Services Code v0.17.4 on testnet and mainnet. In addition, NFT metadata standards for the Hedera Token Service, found in HIP-10: Token Metadata JSON Schema, have become a recommended best practice. Read article ­­Now Available: Hedera JavaScript DID SDK Aug 02, 2021Daniel Norkin We at Envision Blockchain are happy to announce the release of the open-source Hedera JavaScript DID SDK and continued maintenance into the foreseeable future. Read article Deprecation timeline for v1 of the open source Hedera SDK for Java & Javascript May 11, 2021Brady Gentile With the release of v2 of the Java and Javascript SDKs, a majority of Hedera developer community members have migrated to v2. It has come time to begin the deprecation of v1 for Java and Javascript; the deprecation of v1 will be completed in October 2021. Read article Announcing Scheduled Transactions on Hedera May 06, 2021Atul Mahamuni Scheduled Transactions is a new capability available on Hedera that enables multiple parties to easily, inexpensively, and natively schedule and execute any type of Hedera transaction together. Read article Building an NFT Auction on Hedera Hashgraph Apr 19, 2021Greg Scullard How can we create a decentralized eBay that remains affordable, environmentally friendly, and fast? For this challenge, we’ve built an open-source NFT auction using Hedera Token Service and Hedera Consensus Service. We'll test it out with a live auction soon. Read article Account creation fee increase and fee change processes Apr 14, 2021Hedera Team Fees for the CryptoCreate Hedera API call have increased to $0.05 USD. Additionally, a new process using Hedera Improvement Proposals (HIPs) has been implemented to ensure the developer community has input and transparency in key network decisions. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Stablecoins (and other tokens) demand Stable Fees Feb 11, 2021Paul Madsen For tokenization to reach its potential, fees must be both small relative to the value transfer and predictable. The Hedera Token Service provides both. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Finality of Consensus - you can take it to the bank (or maybe you are the bank?) Feb 04, 2021Paul Madsen For individuals, being willing to change your mind is generally seen as a good thing – it suggests flexibility and a willingness to accept new data or evidence, even if it contradicts a previously held belief. Not so for a consensus node in a distributed ledger. Read article Get started with the Hedera Token Service - Part 3 Dec 07, 2020Cooper Kunz The Hedera Token Service (HTS) is used via a robust set of APIs for the configuration, minting, and management of tokens on Hedera, without needing to set up and deploy a smart contract. In Part 3 of this series, let's look at the different types of compliance functionalities that are available within the Hedera API (HAPI): Read article Get started with the Hedera Token Service - Part 2 Dec 07, 2020Cooper Kunz The Hedera Token Service (HTS) is used via a robust set of APIs for the configuration, minting, and management of tokens on Hedera, without needing to set up and deploy a smart contract. In Part 2 of this series, let's look at the different types of administration functionalities that are available within the Hedera API (HAPI): Read article Get started with the Hedera Token Service - Part 1 Dec 07, 2020Cooper Kunz The Hedera Token Service (HTS) is used via a robust set of APIs for the configuration, minting, and management of tokens on Hedera, without needing to set up and deploy a smart contract. Let’s take a look at why you’d consider using it versus something like a fungible token with a smart contract on the Ethereum Blockchain, and the different types of functionalities that are available within the Hedera API (HAPI): Read article Changes to Hedera API (HAPI) for v0.8.0 and v0.9.0 Sep 24, 2020Simi Hunjan If you’re utilizing the Hedera API (HAPI) to build applications on the testnet or mainnet, you’ll need to review deprecations and additions coming in v0.8.0 and v0.9.0 of the Hedera Services Codebase. Read article Less Known Hedera Features Aug 10, 2020Cooper Kunz While you may be familiar with Hedera’s unique consensus algorithm, hashgraph, which (even while throttled) allows us to process 10,000+ cryptocurrency transactions per second - or our Governing Council, which LG and Avery Dennison recently joined, there are a number of notable differences in functionality between our network and the likes of Ethereum, Polkadot, or EOS. Let’s dive into a few of the lesser-known things that you can do with Hedera “out of the box”. Read article Hedera Engineering Insights | July 2020 Aug 05, 2020Brady Gentile Hedera recently hosted its very first monthly “Engineering Insights” webinar, hosted by Donald Thibeau, Director of Product Management, and attended by members of the Hedera developer community. Read article The Hedera previewnet is now live Jul 22, 2020Hedera Team The Hedera previewnet will use a codebase that's still under development by the Hedera team. It’s designed to offer developers early exposure to features and functionalities that will eventually make their way to the mainnet. Read article Mirror node software (beta) and tools now available — including one-click deploy in Google Cloud Platform Marketplace Jul 07, 2020Hedera Team Everyone now has access to real-time and historical raw data files for the Hedera testnet and mainnet via public AWS and GCP buckets. In addition, the Hedera-ETL tool and beta mirror node software is available, including one-click deploy in GCP Marketplace. Read article Dogfooding at Hedera: Trust Bucket for verifiable object storage with Amazon S3 and Hedera Consensus Service Jul 07, 2020Brady Gentile Hedera has brought verifiability and transparency to the PDFs on Hedera.com with "Trust Bucket" — a hackathon submission for Hedera20 that offers verifiable object storage for Amazon S3 using the Hedera Consensus Service. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Why is there no Slashing in Hedera's Proof of Stake? Jul 07, 2020Paul Madsen In Proof of Stake (PoS) systems, 'slashing' refers to the possibility of a node determined to be breaking the rules of the protocol being punished by the loss of some or all of the stake (coins) they had put forward. Read article Proving GDPR, CCPA, and Privacy Compliance with Hedera Consensus Service Jun 15, 2020Paul Madsen Regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) specify strict rules for how businesses collect, store, and share individuals’ personal data. Hedera Consensus Service can uniquely compliantly manage this data while also providing evidence of a businesses' response to meet these growing requirements. Read article Mirror Node Ecosystem Update Jun 05, 2020Cooper Kunz Hedera mirror nodes store transactions that have occurred on the Hedera network, exposing them to consumers and developers alike through user interfaces (explorers) and APIs. We’re excited to see that the Hedera ecosystem is constantly growing, with each new service providing unique offerings. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Counting Votes - why a 2/3 threshold? Jun 03, 2020Paul Madsen Nodes in a hashgraph network apply a 2/3 threshold in the virtual voting procedure – as soon as more than this fraction of consistent votes (or vote stake) are counted on the fame of a particular witness, then that election is complete. So why 2/3 and not some other fraction? It turns out that requiring nodes count just over 2/3 votes is the best compromise between defending against two different types of attacks. Read article Exploring Tokenized Assets on Hedera Consensus Service: part 4 May 15, 2020Tim McHale and Greg Scullard The final part of the series, part 4 goes further into the application network beginning with mirror nodes. We'll finish the core concepts required for the Java tokenized asset on HCS demo application. Read article Exploring Tokenized Assets on Hedera Consensus Service: part 3 May 15, 2020Tim McHale and Greg Scullard The beginning of the end, part 3 starts the focus on the code. We'll provide a Java demo application to help map an ERC-20-like example to an application network using Hedera Consensus Service. Read article Exploring Tokenized Assets on Hedera Consensus Service: part 2 May 15, 2020Tim McHale and Greg Scullard Part 2 of the 4-part series looks at the more decentralized architecture models and options for managing a token using Hedera Consensus Service application networks. In this article, you'll learn more about their potential trade-offs before diving into the code. Read article Exploring Tokenized Assets on Hedera Consensus Service: part 1 May 15, 2020Tim McHale and Greg Scullard Tokens are an exciting new way to manage assets. To date, they've mainly been created through the use of Solidity smart contracts. This 4-part blog series provides an early look at how we can start to achieve similar use cases with Hedera Consensus Service for improved speed and lower costs. Read article Getting started on Hedera for Developers May 14, 2020Cooper Kunz Are you a developer looking to get started building on the Hedera Hashgraph public network? Throughout this post, I’ll show you how to get your account credentials and on your way to deploying your application to the mainnet. Read article Developer Resources Update May 01, 2020Cooper Kunz Today we kicked off Hedera20, our first fully virtual hackathon. Throughout the 6 week challenge, teams of up to 5 have the opportunity to build on the new Hedera Consensus Service (HCS), which brings a decentralized publish-subscribe architecture to any application. We couldn’t be more excited to see what gets developed, and we’re thrilled to provide a few new developer tools that can help you build with HCS during and beyond the hackathon. Read article Decentralized Identity on the Hedera Consensus Service May 01, 2020Paul Madsen Hedera is pleased to announce the early availability of beta tools that Hedera developers can use to manage the lifecycle of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials via the Hedera Consensus Service. We welcome feedback from the community on these tools. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Hedera Hashgraph Transaction and Query Processing Model Apr 28, 2020Paul Madsen Hedera Hashgraph is a public ledger. Nodes on the network collectively establish and maintain a consensus state for a set of application data. Clients interact with that state through API calls sent to the nodes of the network. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Fair Timestamping and Fair Ordering of Transactions Apr 12, 2020Hedera Team Many applications require knowing either the time at which a business transaction happened (for instance, submitting federal taxes before the deadline) or its order relative to other transactions (for instance, competing bids in markets or auctions) or both. Time, or order, will generally be used to assess validity of a transaction or priority relative to other transactions. Read article Build your first HCS powered web app Mar 31, 2020Cooper Kunz In this post, Developer Evangelist Cooper Kunz will show you how to build a web-based chat application that is decentralized on the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS). Read article Get started with HCS and JavaScript Mar 09, 2020Cooper Kunz In this post, Developer Evangelist Cooper Kunz will show you how to get started with Hedera's JavaScript SDK and start building applications with the Hedera Consensus Service. Read article Get started with Hedera's JavaScript SDK Feb 17, 2020Cooper Kunz This tutorial takes you through getting started with Hedera and JavaScript. We'll use the Hedera JavaScript SDK to send your first hbar transfer and be ready to build applications on the Hedera network. Read article ABFT for Correctness and Liveness Feb 07, 2020Paul Madsen For some consensus algorithms, it is possible to prove that they are Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (ABFT). But what does that mean, and what are the practical implications? This blog will explore what an ABFT proof can guarantee about the correctness, finality, and liveness of a consensus algorithm. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Hierarchical Multi-Signature support in Hedera Jan 11, 2020Paul Madsen Hedera enables a flexible and dynamic permissioning model for entities in consensus state via a hierarchical m-of-n transaction signature based authorization model. The ability to require multiple signatures for operations on entities in state is critical for security and usability of public ledgers. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Latency on Hedera Dec 16, 2019Paul Madsen Latency is the time from when a transaction is first sent out from one node, until a node has received it and calculated its consensus order and consensus timestamp, averaged over all nodes and all transactions. On the Hedera mainnet we are currently seeing a latency of approximately 2.5 seconds for transactions. This post will break down that 2.5 seconds. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Hedera Fee Model for Transactions & Queries Sep 22, 2019Paul Madsen The guiding principle of the fee model is that transactions and queries will have a fee that both reflects the amount of bandwidth, processing, and storage resources they consume, as well as the duration of that consumption. Read article Fair Access v. Fair Ordering, & Transactions Per Second Examined & Explained Sep 13, 2019Paul Madsen Distributed ledger technologies (DLT) aren’t just built on code; they’re about community too. And while we might wish for universal agreement, any community worth the name will have its share of disagreement and dispute. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Hedera Consensus Service scaling Jul 30, 2019Paul Madsen The public Hedera network is dedicated to that which the underlying hashgraph algorithm is optimized for – securely and fairly ordering transactions. Without the burden of execution and storage, the nodes of the Hedera mainnet can perform that step with high throughput and low latency. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: State Proofs on Hedera Jul 23, 2019Paul Madsen The fundamental value proposition of a distributed ledger is that participants need not have special trust in any single node maintaining the state. Hedera’s state proofs ensure that clients querying the state can be given the necessary confidence that any data, even if returned by a single node, does indeed accurately represent the consensus state as maintained by the full network. Read article A technical deep-dive: Hedera’s community testing program Jul 10, 2019Hedera Team A technical deep-dive into how the hashgraph consensus algorithm allows for practical cryptocurrency micropayments and the considerations made when designing our open source example applications for the community testing program, to scale to up to 100,000 unique community testers. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Proxy Staking on Hedera Jun 27, 2019Paul Madsen Proxy staking in Hedera hashgraph will allow the stake of millions of account holders to be used towards consensus even if not directly participating as a node. Nodes will receive significant compensation for staking, to incentivize them to do all the effort of being a node. Proxy stakers will also receive very small amounts in order to incentivize them to do the small amount of effort of choosing reliable nodes to which they can proxy stake. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Rent on Hedera Jun 14, 2019Paul Madsen Hedera charges rent for storing crypto accounts, files, and smart contracts in the consensus state maintained by all nodes to both guard against that state growing without bound and to fund payments to those nodes to compensate for their storage costs. Read article Combating deepfakes with distributed ledgers Jun 10, 2019Paul Madsen A deepfake is a growing problem, a fraudulent copy of an authentic video or image, manipulated to create an erroneous interpretation of the events. A distributed ledger can play a role in establishing the provenance of a video and therefore aid in combating deepfakes. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Smart Contract Oracles on the Hedera Platform May 08, 2019Paul Madsen If smart contracts are to model real-world business processes and interactions, they must be connected to that world. Oracles — whether software, hardware, or human — enable that connection. Hedera provides a number of features that uniquely enables smart contract oracles. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Transaction Confirmation Methods in Hedera Jan 24, 2019Paul Madsen After a client submits a transaction to Hedera, the client may seek confirmation that the transaction was added to consensus state and also to perhaps retrieve information associated with that addition. As an example, if the transaction is a transfer of hbars for the purchase of a coffee, then the coffee shop will likely want confirmation that its account received the customer’s payment before pouring the brew. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: A hybrid DLT architecture for gaming Jan 11, 2019Paul Madsen Online gaming architectures have historically relied on an intermediary to facilitate the game play — running centralized servers to which users would connect in order to find opponents and then managing the game state (e.g. where all characters are in a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game, or how much gold each has, or where the pieces are in chess). Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Code is law, but what if the law needs to change? Dec 05, 2018Paul Madsen Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) commonly have simple and inflexible forms of immutability. Hedera supports a more flexible form of controlled mutability, which allows certain changes under certain circumstances, but prevents other types of changes. One area where this is particularly important is for smart contracts. Read article Hedera Technical Insights: Fragility in DLT Nov 08, 2018Paul Madsen Some consensus algorithms are fragile — they cannot adapt to changes, either in the membership of nodes, or in the influence of those nodes towards consensus. The result is that such changes cause consensus to be prevented or corrupted. This can be a problem for some types of distributed ledgers, but it is not a problem for Hedera. Read article Formal Methods: The Importance of Being ABFT in a World with Bad Actors Oct 29, 2018Hedera Team The highest security standard for consensus algorithms is known as Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (ABFT). The hashgraph algorithm, as used in the Hedera public ledger, achieves this gold standard, with a mathematical proof that it is ABFT. This proof-of-stake consensus system was first proved to be ABFT in a rigorous math proof published in 2016. That proof has now been verified by computer in a formal verification completed by a Carnegie Mellon University professor — and we think it is important to explain what that means. Read article Matchmaker, matchmaker Mar 11, 2018Paul Madsen It’s a wonderful bit of irony that the Fiddler on the Roof character singing the above is named ‘Hodel’. Read article 1 2 Sign up for the newsletter CONNECT WITH US Transparency Open Source Audits & Standards Sustainability Commitment Carbon Offsets Governance Hedera Council Public Policy Treasury Management Meeting Minutes LLC Agreement Node Requirements Community Events Meetups HBAR Telegram Developer Discord Twitter Community Support FAQ Network Status Developer Discord StackOverflow Brand Brand Guidelines Built on Hedera Logo Hedera Store About Team Partners Journey Roadmap Careers Contact General Inquiry Public Relations © 2018-2025 Hedera Hashgraph, LLC. All trademarks and company names are the property of their respective owners. All rights in the Deutsche Telekom mark are protected by Deutsche Telekom AG. All rights reserved. Hedera uses the third party marks with permission. Terms of Use  |  Privacy Policy