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HumanKind: getting started with Hedera and DragonGlass

Jul 27, 2020The HumanKind Team

By leveraging the resources available from Hedera and DragonGlass, HumanKind went from having no prior experience with Hedera Hashgraph, to building a robust, award-winning decentralized marketplace in a few short weeks. Learn more about the application they started building during the Hedera20 virtual hackathon, which uses cryptoeconomic incentive mechanisms to award good deeds, and hear direct technical insights from their team in this blog post.

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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.

Eftpos Pioneers New E Commerce Micropayments Solution Using Hedera Hashgraph

eftpos Pioneers New eCommerce Micropayments Solution Using Hedera Hashgraph

Jul 22, 2020Hedera Team

Dallas, TX, and Sydney - 22 July 2020 - eftpos Payments Australia is collaborating with global distributed ledger company, Hedera Hashgraph, on a micropayments proof-of-concept that aims to create a seamless Australian payment experience for web users by providing an alternative to traditional online paywalls and subscriptions.

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AdsDax surpasses 1 billion ad events recorded on Hedera Hashgraph’s Mainnet

Jul 09, 2020The AdsDax Team

Swansea, UK — 9 July 2020 — AdsDax, a decentralized advertising platform and marketplace to create, buy, verify, and sell advertising, has recorded over 1 billion advert events on the Hedera Hashgraph mainnet, marking the biggest ever effort by any ad-tech provider to shift the advertising industry towards blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT).

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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.

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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.

Why Is There No Slashing In Hedera’S Proof Of Stake

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.

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An update on Swisscom Blockchain

Jul 02, 2020Kamal Youssefi

We were proud to be one of the inaugural five council members to join officially, and we were part of the announcement in February 2018 at the Hedera Forum in Seoul. However, for now, the Hedera Governing Council will continue on without the Swisscom Blockchain.

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How Council Engagement Continues to Evolve

Jul 02, 2020Brett McDowell

It was my privilege to convene the first Hedera Council meeting of 2020 at our headquarters in Dallas, Texas – three days before the Updated WHO recommendations for international traffic in relation to COVID-19 outbreak were published.