Switzerland's Muri bei Bern municipality has launched the country's first live municipal blockchain project using the Hedera network. The system issues digital biodiversity vouchers, called BIDI, pegged to the Swiss franc, rewarding residents for conservation work like meadow restoration and invasive plant removal. These vouchers can be redeemed at local businesses, replacing an eight-year-old paper voucher program. The project uses Swisscoast's HCHF stablecoin infrastructure and aligns with Switzerland's evolving stablecoin regulations under FINMA, showcasing blockchain's expanding role beyond finance into public environmental and local commerce initiatives.
Hedera introduced HIP-1261, a new fee model that simplifies transaction cost predictions for enterprises by using a base fee plus extras. This change aims to improve cost transparency, making it easier for companies to adopt Hedera's network at scale...
Chainlink (LINK) is leading the real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market with a market cap of about $7.68 billion and strong daily trading volume. The broader RWA sector has surpassed $12 billion, showing growing institutional interest in blockchai...
