Hedera Price
Hedera (HBAR) is a public distributed ledger that uses the hashgraph consensus algorithm rather than a conventional blockchain. It is governed by the Hedera Council, a group of large organisations that run the network's nodes, and HBAR is its native token — u…
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Key market insights
A plain-language read of live indicators computed from daily closes — these describe current price behaviour, not a forecast.
Technical analysis
Moving averages, momentum and support/resistance from daily closing prices — a snapshot of current structure, not a forecast.
Historical performance
52-week high and low with trailing returns across time windows. Computed from up to 365 daily closes.
Automated observations
Generated mechanically from current market data (volatility, trend, distance from highs) — descriptive, not advice.
Strengths · tailwinds
- Live price, market cap and supply all resolve cleanly from source data.
Risks · headwinds
- Price is below the 50-day average, which sits below the 200-day — a classic downtrend alignment.
- Trading 76% below its 52-week high — well off recent peaks.
- Max drawdown of -74% over the window — has endured deep peak-to-trough losses.
Supply structure
Hedera has no fixed maximum supply. Circulating supply is a curated estimate used to derive market cap.
Hedera derivatives
Live perpetual-swap metrics. Funding is the periodic payment between longs and shorts; open interest is the total value of outstanding contracts. Informational — not a recommendation to trade leveraged products.
Source: Binance Futures · funding shown per 8h and annualised. Leveraged products carry high risk; informational only.
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About Hedera
Hedera (HBAR) is a public distributed ledger that uses the hashgraph consensus algorithm rather than a conventional blockchain. It is governed by the Hedera Council, a group of large organisations that run the network's nodes, and HBAR is its native token — used to pay transaction and service fees and staked to help secure the network.
Hedera is built for high throughput and low, predictable fees, and it targets enterprise and real-world use cases such as tokenised assets, payments and data integrity. Its core services include a token service, a consensus service for timestamping and ordering data, and smart contracts. The council model aims to provide stable, accountable governance — though it also makes the network more permissioned at the governance layer than fully open, permissionless alternatives.
HBAR has a fixed maximum supply of 50 billion tokens, a large share of which is released from a treasury over time on a published schedule. How much of that supply is actually circulating matters for how the market values the token. Like any crypto asset, HBAR is volatile, and its long-term value depends on genuine network adoption rather than announcements.
The story
Hedera is an enterprise-oriented public ledger using hashgraph consensus, governed by a council of large organisations, with a fixed 50-billion HBAR maximum supply released from a treasury over time. HBAR pays for network services and is staked to help secure the network.
The context
The pitch is stable governance, low fixed fees and throughput for real-world applications; the trade-off is a more permissioned governance layer than open networks. The case for HBAR rests on whether council-backed enterprise adoption becomes sustained on-chain usage, set against a large treasury supply still entering circulation. It remains volatile and speculative.
Enterprise and governing-council adoption, genuine network usage versus governance centralisation, and the schedule on which HBAR is released from the treasury.
The US Market Read is reasoning and data from the Crypto News US Editorial team — context, not a buy or sell call. Not financial advice.
Hedera vs peers
| Coin | Price | 24h | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedera HBAR | $0.0665 | +0.88% | $2.79B |
| BNB BNB | $607.67 | -0.62% | $85.07B |
| XRP XRP | $1.01 | -0.31% | $58.31B |
| Solana SOL | $75.75 | -0.04% | $35.98B |
| TRON TRX | $0.3342 | -0.57% | $28.94B |
| Monero XMR | $400.93 | +1.31% | $7.40B |
Hedera FAQ
What is Hedera?
Hedera is a public distributed ledger that uses the hashgraph consensus algorithm and is governed by a council of large organisations. Its native token is HBAR.
What is HBAR used for?
HBAR pays for transactions and network services on Hedera and is staked to help secure the network.
How is Hedera different from a blockchain?
Instead of chaining blocks, Hedera uses hashgraph — a different consensus method its developers say enables high throughput and low, predictable fees — and it is governed by the Hedera Council rather than by open mining.
What is the maximum supply of HBAR?
HBAR has a fixed maximum supply of 50 billion tokens, released from a treasury over time on a published schedule.
Is Hedera a good investment?
Crypto News US does not give financial advice. HBAR is volatile and its value depends on real adoption, and a large share of supply is still entering circulation. Do your own research.
Where does Crypto News US’s Hedera price come from?
Live price, 24-hour change and volume come from Binance market data; market cap is the live price multiplied by a curated circulating-supply figure.
Last updated August 13, 2026