Hedera HBAR
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▼3.30%What Hedera is
Hedera is a public distributed ledger launched in 2019 that is deliberately not a blockchain. It uses hashgraph, a consensus method based on gossip between nodes rather than chained blocks, achieving high throughput and fast finality with very low energy use.
Its most distinctive feature is governance. The network is run by the Hedera Governing Council, a group of large organisations — historically including companies such as Google, IBM and Boeing — each operating a node and holding a term-limited seat.
That structure is the whole argument, in both directions. For enterprises it offers predictable governance and known, accountable operators, which is exactly what a compliance department wants. For anyone whose interest in this technology is permissionlessness, a network where the consensus nodes are a fixed roster of major corporations is a different thing from Bitcoin or Ethereum, whatever its technical merits. Hedera is best judged as enterprise infrastructure rather than as a decentralised alternative to it.
About the asset
Hedera has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
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