Welcome to the Hedera Overview, providing a suite of updates for Hedera enthusiasts, users, developers and curious-minded web3 users about all that’s happening in the ecosystem.
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The ecosystem insights
HBAR token price: $0.124 (-4.54%)
Market cap: $5.27B (-4.18%)
Total value locked (TVL): $71.05M (+1.83%)
Transactions per second: 9.06 tx/s (-10.56%)
The percentages and metrics are calculated from its change over a 14-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.
Hedera Highlights
Diving deeper into some of the biggest updates from Hedera.
#️⃣ What’s happening: CSigma Finance has launched its yield-bearing stablecoin, csUSDh, to Hedera.
#️⃣ Why it matters: The csUSDh stablecoin, backed by real-world invoicing and supply-chain financing, represents cSigma Finance’s infrastructure approach to lending, which enables third-party asset originators to tokenize their portfolios onchain. This lets credit funds, fintechs and traditional finance providers broaden and decentralize their distribution channels to reduce friction.
cSigma Finance handles the tokenization, compliance rails and liquidity routing, so businesses can put their capital to work and earn yield.
Imagine a credit fund that lends money to trucking companies. Normally, every time they want to take out a loan, such companies have to create legal entities (SPVs), chase paperwork across borders, and manually track every payment.
cSigma flips that script on its head by providing a simple “merchant dashboard” on Hedera that automates much of the grunt work: it turns signed invoices or contracts into proper digital tokens, handles all the KYC and whitelists the right investors, and plugs the loan straight into stablecoin pools so anyone can fund it.
#️⃣ The bigger picture: Since csUSDh is backed by $80 million in tokenized loans, it requires infrastructure that can run large amounts of low-value repayments monthly, in a cost efficient manner.
Alongside other deployments on Hedera, like Archax Pool Token functionality and KAIO’s tokenized fund offerings and onchain infrastructure, this new integration highlights Hedera’s RWA presence. As additional originators come onchain, these companies may turn to Hedera due to its expertise in the private-credit sector.
Unpacking the hash
Weekly active users on Hedera are currently at 18.7K, up 26% compared to 30 days ago
Hedera recorded 102 core developers this week, the second most among all L1 blockchains
Hedera won the Best Web3 Developer Tools in North America award from GFM Review
Coinbase added HBAR to its Coinbase 50 Index, a basket of the top 50 digital assets on the exchange
The Georgian Ministry of Justice signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hedera to explore how data can be transferred from the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) to the blockchain.
Ecosystem players
Highlighting the companies, communities and users tied to Hedera ecosystem
Hedera’s head of developer relations, Ed Marquez, spoke about the developer ecosystem in LATAM, its hackathons, and tokenization on the network
Lambdaplex launched its onchain orderbook, built on Hedera, to its testnet
Check out this video to learn more about the orderbook as well as other Hedera developments
Bonzo Finance’s institutional grade yield strategies and vaults are coming to Hedera
SaucerSwap’s Hedera DEX iOS app is now available in beta
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