Dallas, TX and Seoul, Korea– February 20, 2019 – Hedera Hashgraph, a next-generation public ledger designed to have highly diversified governance and the most distributed consensus at scale, today announced the first members of the Hedera Governing Council, which will govern changes to the software run by millions of Hedera distributed nodes over time.

Just like that the first month of 2019 is behind us. We had a fast and furious start to the year at Hedera, with the continuation of our community testing program, which enabled users to test the network and earn hbars for the first time, and our continued march to our open access of the Hedera mainnet beta.

San Francisco, CA — February 6, 2019 — Hedera Hashgraph, a next-generation public ledger designed to have highly diversified governance and the most distributed consensus at scale, today announced the appointment of Lionel Chocron as Chief Product Officer. Chocron joins Hedera from Oracle, where he recently led their emerging technology (Blockchain, IoT, AI) solution efforts across industries.