1. Introduction

In recent years, the cryptocurrency industry has shown rapid development, attracting widespread attention from investors, businesses, and developers worldwide. From the birth of Bitcoin heralding a new era of decentralized digital currencies, to the continuous emergence of various cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects such as Ethereum, the total market value of the cryptocurrency market continues to rise, and trading activity is increasing. The underlying technology blockchain, with characteristics such as decentralization, tamper resistance, and distributed ledger, has not only triggered changes in the financial sector but also demonstrated significant potential applications in industries such as supply chain management, identity verification, and smart contracts.

In this innovative and transformative cryptocurrency industry, Hedera news occupies a unique and important position. As a key window for information dissemination in the Hedera Hashgraph ecosystem, it covers various aspects such as technological progress, project collaborations, market dynamics, and more. Distinguished by its unique consensus mechanism—the Hashgraph consensus algorithm, Hedera Hashgraph demonstrates significant advantages in performance and efficiency compared to traditional blockchain mechanisms such as Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS), enabling faster transaction confirmation speeds and higher throughput. This sets Hedera apart from numerous blockchain projects, and Hedera news has become an important channel for external understanding of its technological advantages, application scenario expansion, and enhanced market competitiveness. Additionally, Hedera news plays an indispensable role in promoting community communication, attracting new users and investors. The information it releases holds profound significance for driving the healthy development of the Hedera ecosystem and enhancing industry influence.

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Second, Hedera News Overview

2.1 Definition and Basic Concepts

Hedera news is a collection of information dissemination channels and content revolving around the Hedera Hashgraph ecosystem. Hedera Hashgraph is a new type of distributed ledger technology that differs from traditional blockchain by adopting a unique hashgraph consensus algorithm, aiming to provide faster transaction confirmation speeds, higher throughput, and stronger security. Hedera news is responsible for timely and accurate dissemination of various dynamics within the Hedera ecosystem, including but not limited to technical upgrades, project collaborations, marketing activities, and progress in community development.

In the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain, Hedera news plays multiple key roles. For developers, it is an important source to obtain technical documentation updates, development tool releases, and new feature introductions, helping them better develop applications and innovate on the Hedera platform; for investors, Hedera news provides the latest trends in project development, helping them evaluate investment risks and potentials to make informed investment decisions; for ordinary users, Hedera news is a window to understand how Hedera Hashgraph technology is applied in daily life scenarios such as cross-border payments, supply chain traceability, digital identity verification, enhancing awareness and trust in the technology.

2.2 Development History

Hedera’s development history is a history of innovation and breakthroughs, witnessing the team’s arduous journey from conceptualization to technological realization, and then to market expansion. It also reflects the exploration and practice of blockchain technology in continuous evolution.

In 2015, the Hedera project was officially founded, bringing together a group of technical experts with deep professional knowledge in distributed systems, cryptography, and other fields. In the early days of its establishment, the team focused on technical research and development, aiming to create a new distributed ledger technology to address the inefficiencies and poor scalability faced by traditional blockchains. They proposed the initial concept of the Hashgraph consensus algorithm, started theoretical research and technical validation, with the goal of building a more efficient, secure, and sustainable blockchain infrastructure.

After years of technological breakthroughs, the Hedera mainnet went live in 2019, marking a significant milestone in its development journey. The mainnet launch signifies Hedera’s transition from the theoretical research phase to the practical application phase, opening up its unique blockchain platform to global developers and users. At this point, Hedera has attracted the attention of numerous enterprises, with 39 global companies including Google and IBM forming the council, providing strong support for Hedera’s development and laying the foundation for its governance and compliance. The participation of these companies not only brings rich industry resources and experience but also enhances Hedera’s visibility and credibility in the market.

2022-2024 is the period of ecological expansion for Hedera. During this period, Hedera integrated the EVM toolchain, a move of significant strategic importance that allows Ethereum developers to easily migrate to the Hedera platform, greatly reducing developers’ learning costs and development difficulties, attracting a large number of developers and projects from the Ethereum ecosystem. At the same time, Hedera actively collaborates with various industries, with the cooperation with AID:Tech being particularly noteworthy. Through this partnership, Hedera has achieved transparency in aid funding, demonstrating for the first time the potential application of blockchain technology in the field of social impact, providing innovative solutions to address real social issues, further expanding Hedera’s use cases and social value.

By 2025, Hedera has entered a period of commercial explosion. Tokenization projects have been intensively implemented, covering various fields such as diamonds, real estate, and carbon credits. The successful implementation of these projects not only proves the feasibility and practicality of Hedera’s technology but also attracts a large number of institutional investors and corporate users. For example, in early January 2025, Hedera announced a partnership with Vaultik and the Gemological Institute of the World to tokenize $3 billion worth of diamond and gem assets. This collaboration not only drives the market’s demand for HBAR liquidity but also sets a new benchmark in the asset digitization field. With a series of commercial projects advancing, Hedera’s market value has entered the global top 20, becoming one of the preferred platforms for enterprise-level blockchain and occupying an important position in the global blockchain market.

2.3 Technical Principles

Hedera’s hashgraph consensus technology is its core competitive advantage, which has significant differences from the consensus mechanism of traditional blockchain. The hashgraph consensus technology is based on the directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure and the “gossip about gossip protocol” to achieve consensus.

In hashgraph, each node exchanges information with other nodes through the “gossip protocol.” Nodes will randomly propagate events they know (such as transaction information) to other nodes, and each node will record the received events and related hash values. These hash values are interrelated to form a hashgraph structure. In this way, nodes in the entire network can quickly propagate and obtain the latest event information.

To achieve consensus, hashgraph introduces a virtual voting mechanism. When a node receives enough confirmation messages from other nodes regarding an event, it will conduct a virtual vote. If an event receives enough virtual voting support, it is considered to have reached consensus in the network and is confirmed as valid. This consensus formation method avoids the high energy consumption problem in traditional blockchain mechanisms such as Proof of Work (PoW) and does not require stake pledging like Proof of Stake (PoS) mechanisms, greatly improving the efficiency and speed of consensus reaching.

Hashgraph consensus technology has many advantages. In terms of transaction processing speed, the Hedera network can theoretically achieve a processing speed of 10,000 transactions per second, far exceeding Bitcoin’s around 7 transactions per second and Ethereum’s dozens of transactions per second. It can meet the transaction needs in high-concurrency scenarios such as financial transactions, IoT device data exchange, etc. Its transaction confirmation time is extremely short, usually only a few seconds. In contrast, Bitcoin may take several tens of minutes for transaction confirmation, and Ethereum also takes several minutes. This allows applications based on Hedera to provide near real-time transaction experiences, greatly improving user satisfaction and application usability. Hashgraph technology ensures the security and immutability of transactions through its unique hashgraph structure and consensus mechanism. Since the hash value of each event is interrelated with other events, once an event is tampered with, its related hash values will change, making it easily identifiable by other nodes, ensuring the security and reliability of the entire network.

Three, Current Development Status

3.1 Market Performance

3.1.1 Price Trend Analysis

Since the mainnet went live in 2020, the price of HBAR has experienced significant fluctuations. During the bull market cycle from 2020 to 2021, the price of HBAR quickly rose along with the overall cryptocurrency market. In May 2021, the price of HBAR reached a phased high point, around $0.57. This price increase was mainly attributed to the market’s high enthusiasm for emerging blockchain projects and the positive progress made by Hedera in technological innovation and partner expansion. Its unique hashgraph consensus technology has attracted the attention of many investors, seen as a project with the potential to disrupt the performance bottlenecks of traditional blockchains; collaborations with well-known companies like Google and IBM have greatly enhanced Hedera’s market visibility and credibility, attracting a large influx of funds and driving up prices.

In 2021-2022, as the cryptocurrency market entered a bear market, the HBAR price also fell significantly. By December 2022, the price had fallen to a low point of around $0.04. During this period, the uncertainty of the macroeconomic environment increased, the continuous rate hikes by the Federal Reserve tightened market liquidity, investors’ risk appetite decreased, and the enthusiasm for investing in risk assets such as cryptocurrencies decreased significantly. In addition, some cryptocurrency projects’ collapse events triggered market panic and spread fear, causing the entire cryptocurrency market to suffer heavy losses, with HBAR also being unable to escape.

In 2023-2024, the HBAR price has shown a trend of oscillating adjustment. The price fluctuates within the range of 0.05-0.1 US dollars, and the market forces of long and short positions are relatively balanced. During this stage, the Hedera ecosystem continues to develop, with new application projects continuously launched, providing some support for the value of HBAR; however, the market as a whole is still in the recovery stage after the bear market, and investor confidence has not fully recovered, exerting certain pressure on the price increase of HBAR.

By 2025, HBAR prices have once again experienced significant fluctuations. As of April 2025, prices have risen to around $0.16. This is mainly due to the significant breakthroughs made by Hedera in commercial applications, the successful implementation of a series of tokenization projects, such as the collaboration with Vaultik and the Gemological Institute to tokenize $3 billion worth of diamond and gem assets, greatly boosting market demand and expectations for HBAR. With congestion issues increasingly prominent in mainstream blockchain networks like Ethereum, Hedera’s advantages in transaction speed and cost are becoming more prominent, attracting some funds to shift from other projects and driving up HBAR prices.

3.1.2 Market Cap and Circulating Supply

As of May 2025, the total supply of HBAR is 50 billion, with a circulation of approximately 36.9 billion, and a circulation rate of 73.8%. A high circulation rate indicates that HBAR has strong tradability in the market, and relatively easy fund inflow and outflow.

The market performance of HBAR is closely related to its price trend. At the price peak in May 2021, the market value reached about 28.5 billion US dollars, ranking in the top 20 in the cryptocurrency market. As the price declined in the bear market, the market value also significantly shrank, dropping to about 1.4 billion US dollars in December 2022. During the fluctuation period of 2023-2024, the market value remained between 1.5-3 billion US dollars. By April 2025, with the price rebounding, the market value once again increased to about 6 billion US dollars, re-entering the top 20 global cryptocurrency market value rankings.

The change in market value has various impacts on the Hedera ecosystem. A higher market value means that Hedera has a stronger influence and visibility in the cryptocurrency market, attracting more developers, enterprises, and investors to pay attention to and participate in the ecosystem. This helps drive more application projects to be developed based on the Hedera platform, further expanding its use cases and market share; the growth in market value will also enhance the value storage function of the HBAR token, strengthening investors’ confidence in long-term investment. On the contrary, a significant decrease in market value may undermine investor confidence, reduce investment in the Hedera ecosystem, and impact the development progress and promotion efforts of the project.

The change in circulation also has an important impact on the market. An increase in circulation may exert downward pressure on prices in the short term, as more tokens enter the market circulation. The increase in supply may lead to a situation where supply exceeds demand. However, in the long run, if the increase in circulation is due to the healthy development of the ecosystem, such as the widespread use and trading of HBAR driven by more application scenarios, it will help to enhance the market activity and recognition of HBAR, laying the foundation for a stable rise in price. If the abnormal increase in circulation is due to negative factors such as a large amount of selling, it may trigger market panic and exacerbate price declines.

3.2 Ecosystem Construction

3.2.1 Application Scenario Expansion

Hedera has made significant progress in the financial field. Taking cross-border payments as an example, traditional cross-border payments face issues such as high fees and long settlement periods. Hedera, using its efficient consensus mechanism and low transaction costs, provides a new solution for cross-border payments. Compared to the average settlement period of 2-3 days for traditional cross-border payments, cross-border payments based on Hedera can achieve real-time arrival, greatly improving the efficiency of fund circulation. In terms of fees, traditional cross-border payment fees are usually between 1%-5%, while Hedera’s cross-border payment fees are only about 0.01%, significantly reducing costs. In the supply chain field, Hedera brings higher transparency and security to supply chain management. By recording information from various links in the supply chain on the blockchain, it enables full traceability of products from raw material procurement, production processing, transportation to sales. Walmart has collaborated with Hedera to transform parts of its food supply chain with blockchain technology. Before applying Hedera technology, Walmart’s tracing of food sources took several days and the accuracy of information was hard to guarantee; after application, by scanning the product QR code, consumers and regulatory authorities can obtain detailed information on the food source, including origin, production date, transportation route, etc., within seconds, effectively enhancing food safety supervision efficiency, and strengthening consumer trust in products.

In the field of NFT, Hedera has injected new vitality into the development of NFT with its unique technological advantages. Compared with other blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Hedera has lower costs and faster speed in NFT minting and trading. During peak periods, the gas fees for NFT minting on the Ethereum network can be as high as tens of dollars, and the transaction confirmation time may take several minutes or even longer; on Hedera, the NFT minting gas fee is only about $0.0001, and the average transaction confirmation time is only 2-3 seconds. This enables more creators and small projects to participate in the NFT market at a lower cost, driving the prosperity of the NFT market. Many artists and creators choose to release their NFT works on the Hedera platform. Through Hedera’s ecosystem, they can trade more conveniently with global collectors and enthusiasts, maximizing the value of their works.

3.2.2 Partnership

Hedera has established extensive partnerships with many well-known institutions and enterprises, which have had a profound impact on its development. In the technology field, Hedera has collaborated with giants such as Google and IBM. The collaboration with Google allows Hedera to leverage Google’s powerful cloud computing resources and global network infrastructure to enhance the performance and stability of its blockchain network. Google’s cloud services provide efficient data storage and processing capabilities for Hedera, helping it better address the growing user demands and transaction loads. The collaboration with IBM focuses on technical research and application promotion, jointly exploring the potential of blockchain in enterprise applications. They have developed a series of industry solutions based on Hedera, such as supply chain finance, identity verification, etc., accelerating the practical application of Hedera technology in enterprises.

In the financial field, the cooperation between Hedera and Shinhan Bank in South Korea has attracted much attention. Shinhan Bank has innovated its international remittance business using Hedera’s technology, enabling real-time settlements in South Korean Won, Thai Baht, and Taiwanese Dollar on Hedera’s blockchain platform. This collaboration not only provides Shinhan Bank’s customers with more convenient and efficient international remittance services but also establishes a successful case for Hedera in the financial sector, attracting more financial institutions to pay attention to and explore the possibilities of cooperation with Hedera, further expanding Hedera’s application scenarios and market share in the financial industry.

In the field of Internet of Things, Hedera has partnered with LG Electronics. LG Electronics utilizes Hedera’s blockchain technology to develop the NFT platform LG Art Lab based on smart TVs. Users can buy, sell, and display NFTs on the Hedera network through LG smart TVs and the crypto wallet Wallypto. This collaboration expands the application of Hedera’s technology to the consumer electronics sector, opening up new channels for the popularization and application of NFTs, while also enhancing Hedera’s visibility and influence among ordinary consumers, promoting the diversified development of the Hedera ecosystem.

3.3 Community and Developer Situation

The Hedera community’s activity is showing a steady upward trend. Through social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, etc., community members actively participate in discussions on Hedera’s technical development, use cases, market dynamics, and other topics. On Twitter, the official Hedera account has over 500,000 followers, with an average of over 100,000 interactions (likes, comments, retweets) per month. The Hedera-related section on Reddit is also very active, with over 500 new posts each month, a response rate of over 80%. Community members share their insights, ask questions, and exchange experiences on these platforms, creating a good interactive atmosphere.

The number of developers is also growing. As of 2025, the registered members of the Hedera developer community have exceeded 100,000, an increase of 30% compared to the previous year. Developers come from all over the world, covering different technical backgrounds and industry sectors. They have developed a wide variety of application projects based on the Hedera platform, spanning multiple fields such as finance, supply chain, Internet of Things, and gaming. The community and developers play a crucial role in the development of Hedera. An active community can provide continuous attention and support to Hedera, enhancing market confidence in Hedera. Community members attract more users and investors to learn about and participate in the Hedera ecosystem through word-of-mouth and social media promotion, promoting Hedera’s market expansion and brand building. Developers are the core driving force of the Hedera ecosystem, their innovation and efforts continuously expanding the application boundaries of Hedera, bringing more application scenarios and business opportunities to Hedera. The various application projects developed by developers on the Hedera platform not only enrich the ecosystem content of Hedera but also attract more users to use Hedera’s services, driving the circulation and value appreciation of the HBAR token.

Fourth, Major News and Technological Developments of Hedera in 2024-2025

In 2024-2025, the Hedera network and community have released multiple upgrades and cooperation trends:

• Mainnet Upgrade: In May 2024, Hedera released service software version v0.49, modularizing the consensus node code, making the codebase more concise and extensible, paving the way for future feature iterations. On October 23, 2024, the mainnet was updated to version v0.54, fully launching the “frictionless airdrop” (HIP-904) feature and allowing token custom fee rules to be updated through smart contracts. Beyond 2025, Hedera continues with regular upgrades: on February 19 and March 10, the mainnet will be upgraded to versions v0.58.9 and v0.59, respectively. Although each upgrade takes only about 40 minutes, these updates are crucial to ensuring the stable operation of the network.
• Open Source and Governance: In September 2024, Hedera announced that it would donate all of its code, including ledger services, development toolkits, etc., to the Linux Foundation’s decentralized trust organization as part of the ‘Project Hiero.’ This is the first public ledger project to migrate its underlying code to an independent and neutral foundation, marking a critical step for Hedera towards a truly open and vendor-neutral governance model. This move allows the Hedera ledger to operate independently in the form of the Hiero codebase, attracting more developers to participate and enhancing cross-industry collaborative innovation.
• Major cooperation: Between 2024 and 2025, Hedera will accelerate external cooperation and application landing. For example, in April 2025, the Hedera mainnet officially integrated Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), allowing developers to securely transfer tokens and messages between different blockchains using this protocol, thereby promoting ecosystem expansion. In addition, Hedera has launched joint development projects for enterprise applications with IBM, Hashgraph Association, Daimler, and other companies, highlighting its attractiveness in the Web3 and deep technology fields.
• Space and IoT Collaboration: In early 2025, Hedera partnered with Swiss technology company WISeKey to extend Hashgraph technology into space for the first time. On January 14, SpaceX launched satellites for the WISeSat project into orbit, a project planning to launch 88 communication satellites, aiming to achieve high-speed and low-cost IoT transactions using Hedera Hashgraph technology. WISeKey’s official news stated that these satellites will adopt Hedera’s distributed ledger technology, providing a decentralized data integrity and transparency framework for the global IoT.
• Community activities: In February 2025, the first Hedera user conference since 2018 was held in Denver, Colorado, USA, concurrently with the ETHDenver blockchain conference. Hedera co-founders Leemon Baird and CEO Mance Harmon delivered opening remarks, outlining the future trends of Hashgraph technology. The conference emphasized the growing influence of the Hedera network, and participants expressed optimism about its ecological prospects. In addition, the Hedera official community also hosts developer conferences and hackathons quarterly to promote technical exchanges and ecosystem development.

Five, Applications in the Research Field

5.1 Medical Research Data Management

Taking HealthReady as an example, it is launched on the Hedera mainnet, making full use of Hedera’s technical advantages to innovate the medical data management model. HealthReady uses Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to efficiently verify whether patients agree to access healthcare data, as well as to verify and confirm the authenticity of patient reports. This application is of critical importance in the management of medical research data, ensuring the legitimacy and reliability of the data source, and providing a solid foundation for subsequent research analysis.

In the traditional medical data management model, the authenticity of data and the legitimacy of sources often rely on centralized institutions, leading to inefficiency and susceptibility to tampering. However, Hedera’s decentralized nature makes the data verification process more transparent and secure, with multiple nodes participating in verification, significantly reducing the risk of data tampering. Through the Hedera Token Service (HTS), HealthReady issued $HR tokens to incentivize patients to participate in data sharing and clinical research. This initiative not only increases patient engagement but also enhances the diversity and richness of medical research data, contributing to the universality and accuracy of research results.

The application advantages of Hedera in medical data management are also reflected in its strong performance. Hedera can achieve fast data processing and storage, meeting the efficient processing needs of large amounts of data in medical research. In clinical studies, massive patient data needs to be processed, including medical records, examination reports, genetic data, etc. Hedera’s high throughput and low latency characteristics can ensure the timely processing and analysis of this data, saving researchers a lot of time and accelerating the research process. Its high level of security also safeguards medical data. Medical data contains sensitive information about patients, and any leakage will have a serious impact on patients. Hedera’s hashgraph consensus technology ensures data integrity and privacy protection through unique hash graph structure and encryption algorithms, allowing patients and medical institutions to confidently share and research data.

5.2 Exploration of Other Potential Research Applications

In terms of academic research data sharing, Hedera has enormous application potential. Academic research data is usually scattered among various research institutions and scholars, facing many obstacles in data sharing, such as inconsistent data formats and trust issues. Hedera can build a decentralized data sharing platform, using smart contracts to standardize rules for uploading, downloading, and using data. Researchers can store their data on the Hedera network and set access permissions and usage conditions through smart contracts. Other researchers can access the data for research after meeting the corresponding conditions, which not only improves the efficiency of data sharing but also ensures data security and copyright ownership.

In the aspect of research achievement tracing, Hedera can also play an important role. During the process of publishing and disseminating research achievements, there are issues such as plagiarism, tampering, and difficulty in tracing the original research process. By utilizing Hedera’s tamper-proof feature, researchers can record key data, experimental records, initial drafts of papers, and other information on the blockchain. Every modification and update will be fully recorded, forming a clear timeline. When it is necessary to trace the origin and evolution of research achievements, anyone can query relevant information through the Hedera network, which helps maintain research integrity, promote reasonable citation and dissemination of research achievements. In the field of patent application, Hedera can achieve transparency and traceability in the patent application process, accelerate patent examination speed, and reduce patent disputes.

Six, Future Development Trends

6.1 Technological Innovation Direction

In terms of consensus algorithm optimization, Hedera may further enhance the performance of the hashgraph consensus algorithm in the future. With the continuous expansion of network scale and the increasingly complex application scenarios, higher requirements are put forward for the efficiency, security, and scalability of the consensus algorithm. Hedera may improve the communication protocol between nodes on the basis of the existing algorithm to reduce the delay of information dissemination and further increase the transaction confirmation speed. By optimizing the virtual voting mechanism, enhancing the accuracy and stability of consensus, and ensuring the normal operation of the network under high concurrency.

In the upgrade of smart contracts, Hedera will focus on improving the functionality and compatibility of smart contracts. On the one hand, Hedera may introduce more advanced programming languages and development tools to improve the development efficiency and code quality of smart contracts, enabling developers to more easily build complex application logic. On the other hand, Hedera will continuously optimize the execution efficiency of smart contracts on the Hedera platform, reduce resource consumption, and lower transaction costs. With the development of cross-chain technology, Hedera may also enhance the interoperability of smart contracts with other blockchain platforms, enabling asset transfers and data exchange between different blockchains, expanding the application scope of smart contracts.

To meet the increasing user demand and data volume, Hedera will increase its research and development investment in scalability and privacy protection technologies. In terms of scalability, Hedera may adopt sharding technology to divide the network into multiple sub-networks, each capable of independently processing transactions, thereby improving the overall network throughput and processing capacity. In terms of privacy protection, Hedera may introduce advanced technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption to ensure the security and privacy of user personal information and transaction data during transaction and data interaction.

6.2 Market Expansion Strategy

In terms of global market expansion, Hedera will increase its promotion efforts in different regions. In the North American region, Hedera has already established partnerships with many well-known companies and will further deepen cooperation with these companies in the future, expanding the application scope in finance, technology, and other fields. At the same time, Hedera will actively explore the European market, leveraging Europe’s advantages in financial technology, supply chain management, and other areas, collaborating with local companies and institutions to promote the practical application of Hedera technology in these fields. In the Asian market, especially in countries with large populations and rapid economic development such as China and India, Hedera will enhance market publicity and promotion, seek suitable partners, adapt to different countries’ regulatory environments and market demands, and gradually open up the market situation.

In the expansion of emerging fields, Hedera has vast development potential. In the field of artificial intelligence and blockchain integration, Hedera can provide a secure and reliable data storage and sharing platform for the training and application of artificial intelligence models. By utilizing the tamper-proof feature of blockchain, it ensures the authenticity and integrity of artificial intelligence data, authorizes access and usage of data through smart contracts, and promotes the development and application of artificial intelligence technology. In the metaverse field, Hedera can serve as the infrastructure of the metaverse, providing support for the trading of virtual assets, identity verification, social interaction, etc. Through its efficient consensus mechanism and low transaction costs, it enables fast transfer and trading of virtual assets in the metaverse, safeguarding users’ rights and interests in the metaverse.

6.3 Industry Integration Possibilities

Hedera has great potential and broad prospects for integration with the traditional financial industry. In the field of cross-border payments, traditional cross-border payments face issues such as high fees, long settlement periods, and cumbersome intermediate links. With its fast transaction confirmation speed and low transaction costs, Hedera can achieve real-time arrival of cross-border payments and low-cost operations. By cooperating with banks and other financial institutions, Hedera can build a blockchain-based cross-border payment system, simplify the payment process, improve fund circulation efficiency, reduce payment risks, and provide global users with more convenient and efficient cross-border payment services. In the securities trading field, traditional securities trading relies on central securities depositories and clearinghouses as intermediaries, with complex trading processes, high costs, and certain operational risks. Hedera can utilize its distributed ledger technology to decentralize the issuance, trading, clearing, and settlement of securities, reduce intermediaries, enhance transaction transparency and security. By automatically executing trading rules through smart contracts, it reduces human errors and fraud risks, and improves the efficiency and fairness of securities trading.

Hedera’s application in the Internet of Things industry also has significant significance and broad development space. In terms of device identity authentication, there are a large number of IoT devices, and they are widely distributed. Traditional device identity authentication methods have low security and are prone to attacks. Hedera can provide blockchain-based identity authentication services for IoT devices, ensuring the authenticity and tamper resistance of device identity through encryption technology. Communication and interaction between devices can be verified and authorized through the Hedera network, preventing devices from malicious attacks and counterfeiting, and ensuring the secure operation of IoT devices. In terms of data sharing and management, the large amount of data generated by IoT devices needs effective management and sharing to maximize the value of the data. Hedera can build a decentralized data sharing platform, storing the data generated by IoT devices on the Hedera network, and setting access permissions and usage rules for the data through smart contracts. Different devices and applications can access and use the data under authorization, achieving secure data sharing and efficient utilization, promoting the development and innovation of the IoT industry.

Conclusion

Hedera, with its innovative hashgraph consensus technology, significantly outperforms traditional blockchains in transaction speed and efficiency, becoming a highly anticipated project in the industry. In terms of market performance, although the price of HBAR has experienced fluctuations, it rebounded in 2025 due to breakthroughs in commercial applications, re-entering the global top 20 in market value, demonstrating strong market potential. Its ecosystem construction achievements are remarkable, with application scenarios extensively expanding to finance, supply chain, NFT, and other fields. It has established close cooperation with many well-known institutions and enterprises such as Google, IBM, Shinhan Bank, and LG Electronics, effectively promoting the practical application of technology and market expansion. The community and developer activity continue to rise, providing a continuous source of momentum for Hedera’s development.