Everybody should have equal access to all public forums. No one should have the ability to re-prioritize your transactions, or drop them, or front-run, or sandwich trade, or otherwise disadvantage you. The hashgraph algorithm is leaderless. We all deserve a more fair world.
You shouldn't have to sacrifice performance for fairness or security. The world of interconnected businesses and networks continues to expand at an accelerating rate. Waiting minutes for transactions to finalize doesn't meet your requirements. The hashgraph algorithm isn't just fair, it is also fast.
The hashgraph algorithm is asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (ABFT). This is the gold standard in distributed network security. Your transactions are protected from bad actors with the highest security available.
No one entity should have complete control of your future. Spreading power and influence out among many participants, all with equal access, helps secure your access to the network and your data. You should be able to participate in the network, in its development, and in its use. This network belongs to the world. It belongs to the future.
A ledger with a leader-based consensus protocol is inherently unfair, and either slow or susceptible to denial of service attacks. We believe in a future where every node can participate on an equal basis with a completely leaderless consensus protocol, safe from denial-of- service, and safe from centralization.
By contributing to the development of projects within this Foundation, you have a direct impact on software that is changing the world.
BECOME A MEMBERHedera is a decentralized, open-source, proof-of-stake public hashgraph ledger that utilizes
the leaderless, asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT) hashgraph consensus algorithm.
It is governed by a collusion-resistant, decentralized council of leading enterprises,
universities, and web3 projects from around the world.
Hedera's performance-optimized Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) smart contracts, along with
its easy- to-use native tokenization and consensus service APIs, enable developers to create
real-time web3 applications and ecosystems that will drive the future of the internet.
Hedera is built differently from other blockchains. It has high throughput with fast
finality; low, predictable fees; fair transaction ordering with consensus timestamps; and a
robust codebase that ensures scalability and reliability at every layer of its network
infrastructure. Hedera is governed responsibly by the world's leading organizations to
ensure that the network is collusion-resistant.
Developers on Hedera are first-class citizens, enabled by intuitive APIs and EVM smart
contracts. Whether you're building a weekend project or the next big thing in web3, Hedera's
native network service SDKS, EVM equivalence, and tooling makes innovation and development a
breeze. Hedera's robust codebase ensures massively scalable and reliable network
infrastructure, making it the perfect platform for developers to deploy ecosystem-critical
web3 applications and protocols.
