Neuron is building a decentralized service network on Hedera that lets autonomous devices such as drones, sensors and AI agents discover one another and settle payments directly, part of a decentralized physical infrastructure sector some analysts project could reach 3.5 trillion dollars by 2028.

Neuron, a decentralized physical infrastructure company, has built a service network on Hedera that allows autonomous devices to discover each other, exchange data and settle payments directly, without a central intermediary. The company reports more than 40 million network transactions to date, and expects to track 2.7 billion service delivery segments during 2026.

The project sits within a category known as DePIN, or decentralized physical infrastructure networks, in which real-world hardware is contributed and operated by many independent participants rather than a single company. The model has drawn growing attention as connected devices multiply and the cost of coordinating them through centralized systems rises. Analysts cited in Hedera's case study project the broader DePIN market could reach 3.5 trillion dollars by 2028.

Machine-to-machine commerce has faced persistent obstacles: high transaction costs, security vulnerabilities, limited scalability and a lack of trust between devices. Centralized systems create bottlenecks, while many blockchain networks are too slow or too expensive to support the volume of micropayments that billions of connected devices would generate. Neuron's decentralized service network, or DSN, is designed to address that gap by giving devices a decentralized identity, micropayment capability and verifiable data exchange.

In practice, a device that needs a service locates another device offering it on the network, agrees terms, and settles payment automatically. A delivery drone planning a route, for example, can request airspace or sensor data from other participants and pay a small amount for each source it uses, with the operator of that sensor compensated automatically and the record written to the ledger.

Neuron began by addressing a specific problem in the drone industry: the absence of infrastructure for tracking drones in low-altitude, congested airspace, which traditional systems designed for high-altitude aircraft do not serve well. Its 4D Sky network demonstrated that distributed ledger technology could manage complex, real-time operations, and was deployed in trials run by the UK government. The company later extended the approach to sectors including food delivery, where the network reduces the commissions charged by traditional platforms, content streaming, where smart contracts manage licensing and subscriptions, and environmental monitoring, where sensor data is recorded immutably.

Neuron selected Hedera for its throughput, low latency, low and predictable transaction fees, and aBFT security, which the company said meets the requirements of military and government drone operations demonstrated in the UK trials. "We believe the future of services lies in decentralization," said James Dunthorne, Neuron's chief executive. "We're not just building a network, we're building the infrastructure that empowers anyone to create applications that manage any kind of resource, physical assets like drones, digital content like streaming media, or even human resources."

The network's peer-to-peer architecture is designed to remove single points of failure and protect user data while maintaining service continuity. As device counts and machine-driven services grow, Neuron's model offers a template for how autonomous systems might transact at scale, a design other infrastructure operators are likely to watch closely.

Hedera is set to roll out Block Nodes in September, replacing the cloud-stored Record Files that currently feed wallets, exchanges and dashboards. The shift moves the network to a real-time data feed and reduces reliance on centralized storage.

Hedera is preparing to overhaul the infrastructure that delivers on-chain data to wallets, exchanges and applications, with a transition to Block Nodes expected to go live in September. The change targets a long-standing weakness in how information reaches end users: the prices, balances and marketplace activity displayed across the ecosystem do not come directly from the network, but from an intermediate layer that has been prone to delays and outages.

That layer is the Mirror Node, a service that reads activity on Hedera, processes it, and exposes it through APIs used by wallets, dashboards, bots and trading interfaces. Under the current model, consensus nodes write Record Files to cloud object storage, and Mirror Nodes download and validate those files before serving the data. The design has supported the network for years, but it carries structural limitations that surface as missing token prices, blank balances and lagging charts.

Three problems define the existing setup. The first is a dependency on centralized storage: because data is staged in Record Files held in the cloud, an outage at that storage layer can leave applications without information to display. The second is processing overhead, as Mirror Nodes cannot request only the data they need and instead must download entire files containing large volumes of irrelevant content. The third, a consequence of the first two, is latency. Data can take minutes to propagate, leaving price charts behind the market and delivering sale notifications late.

Block Nodes are designed to address those issues. Rather than relying on file uploads to the cloud, the network pushes activity in real time to Block Nodes through the Block Stream, a unified format that bundles everything occurring in each block. Mirror Nodes then subscribe to a Block Node and receive only the data relevant to them, eliminating the need to ingest unnecessary information.

According to Hedera's documentation, Block Nodes replace the previous record-stream file upload mechanism with a real-time, push-based feed of all network activity, making it available to downstream consumers such as Mirror Nodes, indexers and analytics services. The Block Stream format, standardized under HIP-1056, reduces the size of the data Mirror Nodes must process and lowers ingestion costs.

The expected gains are faster, real-time data delivery, the removal of redundant processing, reduced reliance on centralized storage, and greater scalability across the network. Record Files and cloud storage are not being eliminated; instead, they step back from their role as the primary data path and remain as a backup for emergency scenarios.

The migration is scheduled for September. If deployed as planned, it would mark one of the more significant changes to Hedera's data infrastructure to date, with direct implications for the responsiveness and reliability of the wallets, exchanges and applications that depend on it.

Tamam has built TamamOS, a Hedera-based financial operating system for regulated banks, with an autonomous compliance engine called Mirsad AI that automates anti-money-laundering processing and is already in talks with two central banks and six commercial banks across the Gulf.

Tamam has launched a financial infrastructure platform on Hedera designed to bring payments, custody, stablecoin issuance, tokenization and compliance into a single system for regulated banks. At the center of the platform, TamamOS, sits Mirsad AI, an autonomous compliance solution that monitors financial activity, automates anti-money-laundering (AML) processes and produces auditable transaction records.

The company is targeting a long-standing pain point in institutional finance. Banks still depend on fragmented legacy systems, intermediary networks and manual compliance reviews, which leave cross-border transactions slow, costly and opaque, often taking days to settle. Traditional AML frameworks compound the problem, generating false positives that frequently exceed 95% and forcing institutions into labour-intensive review processes that raise both operating costs and regulatory risk.

TamamOS aims to consolidate that stack. The platform unifies payments, institutional-grade custody secured through distributed key management, sovereign and US-dollar stablecoin issuance, and real-world asset tokenization, with compliance enforced automatically before settlement. According to the case study, transactions are anchored to a single immutable audit trail, reserves are verifiable, and the system is built around a regulator-first approach that adapts to jurisdiction-specific requirements.

Mirsad AI serves as the compliance backbone. The engine replaces conventional AML tooling with automation that monitors both fiat and distributed-ledger transactions in real time, reviews suspicious activity, delivers explainable decisions, generates regulatory reports and creates tamper-proof records of every compliance decision. The company reports that 97% of compliance cases are processed automatically with full documentation.

The platform relies on specific Hedera services to operate. It uses the Hedera Token Service to issue tokens and stablecoins and the Hedera Consensus Service to immutably record issuances, compliance events and audit trails that regulators can independently verify. Tamam cites Hedera's fast finality, where transactions settle in seconds without rollback risk, alongside low and predictable fees and the institutional credibility of the Hedera Council, as central to its choice of network.

That credibility shaped Tamam's go-to-market strategy. "Before even approaching commercial banks, we engaged directly with regulators to present our technology, risk model, and compliance framework," said Muneef Halawa, Chief Executive and Co-Founder. "Building on Hedera gave us the credibility to have those conversations."

Tamam reports early traction across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the broader Middle East and North Africa region, with active engagements spanning two central banks and six commercial banks. The company estimates an annual addressable market of 9.4 billion dollars in the GCC for cross-border settlement and compliance infrastructure, and plans to replicate its deployment model across additional jurisdictions, with TamamOS expected to run on Hashgraph's private-permissioned HashSphere architecture.

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IDTrust, a self-sovereign identity platform built on Hedera by Switzerland's The Hashgraph Group, has been listed in IBM's official Partner Plus solutions directory, positioning the technology as enterprise-grade identity infrastructure for humans, connected devices and AI agents.

IBM has added IDTrust, a self-sovereign identity platform built on the Hedera network, to its official Partner Plus solutions directory. The listing presents IDTrust as enterprise infrastructure for verifying the identity of humans, smart devices and AI agents, and is provided by The Hashgraph Group, the Switzerland-based company that developed it.

The inclusion is notable because of the scale of the company hosting the listing. IBM operates in more than 175 countries and, for nearly three decades, held the position of the world's leading patent filer. While the directory makes clear that solutions are provided and described by partners rather than validated by IBM, a placement in the company's enterprise catalog signals that the technology is being positioned for large-scale corporate use.

IDTrust is described as a decentralized identity solution that gives users full control over their personal data through a digital identity wallet. Rather than handing over complete documents to every service that requests verification, users disclose only the specific attribute required for a given interaction. A person asked to confirm that they are of legal age, for example, can prove the claim without revealing a date of birth or a full identity document.

According to the listing, the platform delivers measurable operational benefits. Credential verification is up to 90 percent faster than conventional processes, reducing checks that previously took minutes to a matter of seconds. Because identity data is not concentrated in a central database, the listing reports an 85 percent reduction in identity-related security incidents, and states that deployments reach a return on investment within six months through lower administrative overhead. A single verified credential can be reused across multiple networks and devices, removing the need to repeat verification for each new service.

The most distinctive element of the platform is the range of entities it can verify. IDTrust extends identity beyond people to connected machines, including robots, autonomous vehicles and drones, as well as autonomous AI agents. As software agents begin to book, purchase and transact on behalf of users, the platform is designed to let those agents prove that they are legitimate and operating with explicit authorization, an emerging requirement often referred to as identity for the agentic economy.

The platform is built on Hedera, the distributed ledger that provides its cryptographic foundation, near-instant transaction finality and low transaction costs. The listing also notes a path toward post-quantum security as relevant standards mature. IDTrust is offered both as a software-as-a-service product and for on-premises deployment, and is aimed at sectors including banking, healthcare, automotive, insurance, telecommunications and logistics.

The Hashgraph Group, headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, developed and provides the solution, which IBM lists under the silver partner tier. The arrangement places a Web3 identity product inside the catalog of one of the largest technology vendors in the world, a step that moves decentralized identity from concept toward enterprise procurement. Whether the listing translates into broad commercial adoption will depend on how enterprises across regulated industries respond, but the positioning underscores growing interest in verifiable identity as automated agents take on a larger role in digital transactions.

Allfunds Blockchain has launched Harmonia, an initiative bringing tokenised funds to Solana, with Spanish firm ioBuilders — backed by Hashgraph, the organisation behind the Hedera network — providing the integration layer through its Asseto platform, connecting Europe's largest fund distribution network to public blockchain markets.

Allfunds Blockchain has launched Harmonia, an initiative to extend the distribution and accessibility of tokenised funds to Solana, with Spanish technology firm ioBuilders providing the underlying infrastructure through its Asseto platform. The move connects Europe's largest fund distribution network — spanning more than 3,300 asset managers and financial institutions and close to €1.8 trillion in assets under administration as of the end of March 2026 — to public blockchain markets.

The fund industry has experimented with tokenisation for years, but largely through pilots and proofs of concept. Harmonia is positioned differently: as a direct commercial bridge between traditional financial networks and public decentralised finance ecosystems. Funds currently available on both Allfunds and Solana will remain accessible across both networks, ensuring consistent availability in traditional and on-chain environments and allowing institutional distribution and Web3 markets to operate within a single financial architecture.

The technical core of the initiative is Asseto, ioBuilders' tokenisation platform. It acts as the integration layer between Allfunds' traditional workflows and on-chain environments, handling the issuance and full lifecycle management of tokenised funds — including custody, trading and settlement — in line with the operational and compliance requirements institutions must meet. Its modular, multi-chain design allows issuers to tokenise instruments such as bonds, equities, money market funds and private equity without being locked into a single network.

For asset managers and transfer agents available through Allfunds, the structure is designed to require no change to existing operations. Issuers can bring tokenised funds to market through familiar institutional workflows while gaining access to new blockchain-based distribution channels, maintaining connectivity to established networks throughout.

The connection to the Hedera ecosystem runs through ioBuilders itself. Hashgraph, the organisation behind the Hedera network, has invested in ioBuilders specifically to expand institutional, multi-chain tokenisation through Asseto — a strategy that now finds its largest use case to date in linking Allfunds' universe of funds to on-chain markets. Eligible products are further evaluated by Particula, which applies a structured risk-assessment framework intended to support institutional confidence.

Rubén Nieto, Head of Allfunds Blockchain, said the initiative moves tokenisation "out of the tech lab" and into "the commercial mainstream," allowing traditional asset managers to tap into Web3 liquidity "without altering their trusted workflows." Ben Brophy, Head of Institutional Growth, Europe at the Solana Foundation, said the decision "combines the massive scale of Europe's traditional fund sector with Solana's leading blockchain technology," adding that decentralised liquidity and institutional distribution are increasingly operating within a unified architecture.

The launch marks a new phase in the adoption of tokenisation within the fund sector, establishing a template in which institutional distribution and public blockchain infrastructure function as parts of the same system. With ioBuilders and Asseto serving as the underlying infrastructure layer, the model could see further asset managers bring tokenised products on-chain in the coming months, as the boundary between traditional fund distribution and decentralised markets continues to narrow.