HBAR / USD
- Market Cap
- $3.44B
- 24h Volume
- $50.71M
- All-Time High
- $0.5692
- Circulating Supply
- 44.33B HBAR
What Is HBAR?
Hedera is a public distributed ledger governed by a council of large global organizations. Unlike proof-of-work or traditional proof-of-stake networks, Hedera uses hashgraph consensus — achieving high throughput (10,000+ TPS), low and predictable fees (fractions of a cent), and carbon-negative operations verified by third-party audits.
HBAR is the native currency of the Hedera network, used to pay transaction fees and secure the network through staking. Unlike most blockchains, Hedera's hashgraph algorithm achieves Byzantine fault tolerance with asynchronous finality — meaning transactions reach mathematical certainty without the probabilistic confirmations of traditional blockchains.
Hedera has been used in enterprise payment, tokenization, and central-bank research projects. Payment applications built on Hedera can map their data to ISO 20022, the messaging standard banks use; that is a feature of the software, not of the HBAR token. More in our ISO 20022 explainer.
The Governing Council
Hedera's most important differentiator: no single entity controls the network. The Governing Council consists of term-limited seats held by large companies and institutions from several industries — decisions require consensus from this body.
- IBM
- Boeing
- LG Electronics
- Deutsche Telekom
- ServiceNow
- Standard Bank
- abrdn
- Avery Dennison
- DBS Bank
- Dell Technologies
- EDF
- FIS
- Ubisoft
- McLaren Racing
- Shinhan Bank
- Tata Communications
- Wipro
- IIT Madras
- University College London
- London School of Economics
- EFTPOS Australia
- Swirlds Labs
- Dentons
- Standard Chartered
- Zain Group
- + more members
Why this matters: The Governing Council model means no single entity controls Hedera — decisions require consensus from large companies and institutions from several industries. This is the opposite of most crypto projects controlled by a foundation or founding team.
Known Partnerships & Use Cases
Enterprise-grade deployments across banking, government, and supply chain.
| Partner | Region | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| SWIFT | Global | Cross-border payment trials with 40+ major banks (2025) |
| Australia RBA — Project Acacia | Australia | Wholesale CBDC and tokenized assets (Q2 2026) |
| Lloyds / abrdn / Archax | UK | First tokenized real-world asset FX trades on DLT |
| Wyoming FRNT | USA | State stable token live on Hedera mainnet |
| Tether (USDT0) | Global | Stablecoin deployed live on Hedera network |
| McLaren Racing | UK | Joined Hedera Governing Council (March 2026) |
| FedEx | USA | Supply chain provenance management (Feb 2026) |
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