HBAR shows active development, but usage and value accrual stay weak
| Grade | Verdict | Score | Rank | Price | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Speculative | Yellow | 45.4 / 100 | #49 | $0.0681 | $3B |
C | Speculative means: A small, deliberate position in our model, sized so a total loss would be survivable; often zero.
Data as of Nov 3, 2026 — scores are re-evaluated daily. This page refreshes automatically from the published record.
Hedera is a public network designed for applications that need near-real-time consensus. Its Hedera Consensus Service gives applications and permissioned networks an ordered, timestamped, and verifiable record of submitted messages. The network is governed by a council that includes companies and institutions such as Google, IBM, Boeing, and University College London. HBAR is used to pay network fees and support staking-based network security. This combination of council governance and consensus-service functionality distinguishes Hedera from networks whose validator participation is designed to be broadly open and distributed. The supplied profile does not provide further technical detail about Hedera’s consensus process, application landscape, token supply, or fee economics. It therefore establishes the network’s broad purpose and governance model, but not the scale or quality of its adoption.
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