Since our last update, there has been a number of exciting developments. We announced our partnership with OpenCrowd, who will be helping us build next generation decentralized applications. OpenCrowd is currently developing for the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, R3’s Corda… and now Swirlds’ hashgraph. Also, the hashgraph community saw immense growth as our Telegram channel surpassed 15,000 supporters and meetups continue to grow in popularity, with successful events in Minneapolis, Portland, Toronto, India, Chicago, Hong Kong, San Jose, and Paris. Going global!

Mance Harmon Speaks With Brian Fabian Crain & Meher Roy From Epicenter

Mance Harmon: Hashgraph — A Radically Novel Consensus Algorithm

Through gossip about gossip and virtual voting, hashgraph offers a radical departure from today’s distributed systems. Mance Harmon sat down with Brian Fabian Crain and Meher Roy from Epicenter to discuss hashgraph’s new approach. The conversation covered a brief history of Mance and Leemon’s previous successful endeavors, how the various types of consensus algorithms function, the issues these algorithms face, and how hashgraph’s new approach provides a strong foundation for the future of distributed applications.

Welcoming Lead Developer Advocate, Ken Anderson!

Ken is dedicated to creating a helpful and informative environment for developer communities

DLT promises profound solutions to complex problems across a broad range of industries. Some of the world’s brightest minds are working diligently on these problems and will, in turn, define the future of our world. A crucial part of this process is building a strong relationship between the platform and the developer communities that bring it all to life. Enter Ken Anderson.

With over 20 years of experience in system design, entrepreneurship, and software architecture, Ken brings a range of skills and a deep understanding of the technical challenges the Swirlds team will encounter in the coming months and years. You can read more about Ken and his vision for the Swirlds developer community in our previous article on Medium.

Wargames Of A Serial Entrepreneur

Mance Harmon — Wargames Of A Serial Entrepreneur

In this exclusive bonus footage from Mike Maloney’s Hidden Secrets Of Money documentary series, Mance looks back at his early days as a researcher for machine intelligence at the U.S. Air Force, meeting Leemon and years later, selling their first business in the space of identity and access management to a Fortune 500 company. Mance shares the journey that led him to Swirlds and hashgraph and his bold new vision to fix the internet for future generations.

Distributed Ledger Crash Course With Leemon Baird

Leemon Baird — The Distributed Ledger Crash Course

Let’s be honest, Distributed Ledger Technology can be a complex subject. Thankfully, Leemon is here to give us a broad understanding of the basics, different use-cases, and the frontier of innovation in distributed consensus in the final exclusive bonus video from Mike Maloney’s Hidden Secrets Of Money documentary series.

Community Led Growth

Over 100 people in attendance at the latest Chicago meetup

We are seeing an immense amount of support from community members who are leading hashgraph meetups all over the world. Recently, our Chicago meetup had over 100 people in attendance with Kyle Armour giving an introductory presentation comparing hashgraph to the rest of the market in terms of performance and security. This was followed by a webinar from Paul Madsen, Technical Specialist, and Ken Anderson, Lead Developer Advocate, who went deeper into the algorithm and the SDK. Sign up on the hashgraph forum to become a hashgraph ambassador and help to organize meetups in your local area.

Want To Learn More?

If you are interested in learning more, then join our growing Telegram community, or keep up to date with the latest news & content on the hashgraph forum.

You can also download the whitepaper and Software Development Kit.