According to Forbes, blockchain and cryptocurrencies are poised to become the largest disruptive technologies in the world, yet only 5-7% of the those active in the technologies are women. Hedera aims to support women who have the motivation and inspiration to make a difference in these disruptive technologies and build a new future together.

Over 1.8 billion people who are eligible to vote, don’t. In the past five years alone 52 countries have experienced some sort of election interference. The Hedera Free and Fair Voting Initiative wants to make every election in the world fair and free, without voter manipulation and suppression.

We caught up with Gabe Leydon, CEO of MZ (formerly MachineZone) at the Crypto Invest Summit in LA earlier this month. Satori, an extension of MZ’s real-time streaming platform, is an open data project that aims to be the first platform to extract the world’s feeds of public information from siloed sources and publish them in an easy format for developers to search and edit.