Hedera Technical Insights

For tokenization to reach its potential, fees must be both small relative to the value transfer and predictable. The HTS provides both.

For individuals, being willing to change your mind is generally seen as a good thing — it suggests flexibility and a willingness to accept…

Verifiable Credentials (VC) and Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are two different but related identity standards progressing in the W3C —…

In Proof of Stake (PoS) systems, ‘slashing’ refers to the possibility of a node determined to be breaking the rules of the protocol being…

Nodes in a hashgraph network apply a 2/3 threshold in the virtual voting procedure — as soon as more than this fraction of consistent…

Hedera Hashgraph is a public ledger. Nodes on the network collectively establish and maintain a consensus state for a set of application…

Many applications require knowing either the time at which a business transaction happened (for instance, submitting federal taxes before…

The ability to require multiple signatures for operations on entities in state is critical for security and usability of public ledgers.

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…

A Hedera account has the following important components (there are others not relevant to this discussion):

Hedera is a public ledger. Nodes on the network collectively establish and maintain a consensus state.

DLTs sacrifice the efficiency of a single party processing transactions and managing application state for the decentralization and…

A distributed ledger has multiple nodes maintain the state created by a set of business transactions. Clients send transactions to nodes…

Note: this article describes the proxy staking mechanism in Hedera. Proxy staking will not be supported at Open Access.

We are used to paying based on how long we use some resource — whether parking meters, toll highways, or safe deposit boxes. We don’t…

If a smart contract requires data from the external world (for instance, an insurance contract requiring the level of flood waters to…

We list below 5 different confirmation mechanisms from which clients can choose.

Online gaming architectures have historically relied on an intermediary to facilitate the game play

Support for Optional Binding Arbitration for Hedera Smart Contracts

Some consensus algorithms are fragile — they cannot adapt to changes.

Hedera charges fees based on the burden a particular transaction or query places on the nodes of the network. Nodes analyze the…