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Hedera is run by the world's leading organizations

The Hedera Governing Council

Join a future built on trust

Hedera is a decentralized public network for you to make your digital world exactly as it should be – yours. Whether you're a startup or enterprise, a creator or a consumer, Hedera goes beyond blockchain for developers to create the next era of fast, fair, and secure applications.

The 3rd generation public ledger

Bitcoin pioneered decentralized infrastructure and Ethereum brought programmability. But earlier proof-of-work blockchains consume massive amounts of energy and process transactions slowly in order to achieve acceptable levels of security. Heavy bandwidth consumption by these technologies leads to expensive fees, even for a simple cryptocurrency transaction.


The Hedera proof-of-stake public network, powered by hashgraph consensus, achieves the highest-grade of security possible (ABFT), with blazing-fast transaction speeds and incredibly low bandwidth consumption. By combining high-throughput, low fees, and finality in seconds, Hedera leads the way for the future of public ledgers.

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Transactions
per second

average
fee

transaction
confirmation

1st
Generation

Bitcoin

BTC

3+

TPS

$0.20

usd2

10-60

minutes

2nd
Generation

Ethereum

ETH

12+

TPS

$0.13

usd3

10-20

seconds

3rd
Generation

Hedera

HBAR

10,000+

TPS1

$0.0001

usd

3-5

Seconds

(w/finality)

1. Cryptocurrency transactions. For Hedera, range shown for transactions not requiring a transaction record, but can receive a transaction receipt.

2. Avg. Bitcoin tx fee from 9/26/18 - 3/26/19 from https://bitcoinfees.info/

3. Avg. Ethereum tx fee from 9/26/18 - 3/26/19 from https://blockchair.com/ethereum/charts/average-transaction-fee-usd/

Build with Hedera network services

Cryptocurrency

ENABLE FAST, LOW FEE PAYMENTS

Cryptocurrency payments allow you to transact using hbars without intermediaries to lower costs and make complex payments simple with code.

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Smart Contract

Tokenize and exchange assets

The tokenized economy will change how we define ownership. Use the Solidity language to create assets, perform atomic swaps, or interact with outside oracles.

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File Service

Sign and verify files

Create and manage files, with guaranteed visibility. File Service can act as a credentials revocation service and uniquely prove GDPR compliance.

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Consensus Service

Build directly on hashgraph

Write transactions at native speed for a scalable, cost-effective solution to manage exchange orders, audit logs, supply chain tracking, and endless possibilities.

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Join 500+ teams building on Hedera

From innovative startups to global enterprises,

join the teams building on Hedera.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

“We've always viewed Hedera, given its security, as the best solution for high-throughput.”

HEALTHCARE

“Hedera underpins our secure data transport layer for greater collaboration.”

MEDIA

“Hedera is the only platform that will truly fit our need to enable lightning fast micropayments.”

TECHNOLOGY

“Distributed ledgers provide trust to scale our business faster.”

"What if anyone on Earth, at any moment, could just wave their hand and carve out a world of their own in cyberspace?"

Dr. Leemon Baird
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

A public network for everyone

Hedera is designed for fast, fair, and secure applications to take advantage of the efficiency of hashgraph on a decentralized, public network you can trust.

FAST

Achieve fast, low-latency transactions with guaranteed finality in seconds, not minutes or hours. Hedera is an order of magnitude faster than blockchain alternatives.

FAIR

Count on fair access, timestamps, and transaction ordering that can't be manipulated by malicious nodes.

SECURE

Deploy on a network with proven, best-in-class asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerant (ABFT) security that's resistant to DDoS and Sybil attacks.

STABLE

Run on a reliable network governed by term-limited enterprises with no authorized forks, and the ability to meet global data regulations.

Build

Join the Hedera testnet, grab your SDK, and make your first transaction.

Test

Get a glimpse of the future, join phase II of the community testing program to earn hbars.

Engage

Explore distributed ledger technology with us and how it will impact your business.