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According to an announcement shared with crypto.news by the Municipality of Muri bei Bern, the Canton of Bern municipality partnered with Swiss Web3 engineering firm The Hashgraph Group, blockchain developer Swisscoast, and digital transformation company Apps with Love to roll out BIDI, a blockchain-based biodiversity voucher designed to reward residents for participating in conservation work.

Built on the Hedera distributed ledger network, the system issues on-chain vouchers pegged to the Swiss franc for activities such as meadow restoration, hedge maintenance, invasive plant removal, riparian repair work, and wetland conservation. Residents can redeem each BIDI voucher for 1 Swiss franc at participating local merchants and service providers inside the municipality.

Municipal authorities said the initiative replaces a paper voucher program that had operated in Muri bei Bern for the past eight years. By moving the system on-chain, the project introduces digital verification and settlement infrastructure while keeping the existing community redemption model intact.

Coinbase is reviewing its exchange infrastructure after an AWS data center cooling failure knocked several trading services offline, blocked some account access, and delayed customer balance displays. CEO Brian Armstrong called the outage “unacceptable” and said Coinbase will revisit tradeoffs around speed, co-location, and faster recovery during infrastructure failures.

I have no idea what the truth is.

Hedera is scaling the retail-to-institutional bridge with the Revolut staking launch reaching 70M users worldwide, The organizational merger with Algorand Technologies creates a Delaware-based powerhouse backed by a £11.1M ($15M) development commitment 🏛️🤝

• The Revolut integration provides a massive retail liquidity floor while PostFinance secures the Swiss institutional wealth management rail 🇨🇭💎

• The "x402" demonstration at SXSW proves Hedera is the leading layer for machine-to-machine commerce and autonomous AI agents🤖⚙️

• Technical leadership from Martins and Peikert signals a shift toward high-throughput scientific dominance in the DLT space 🛠️

The "Internal" shift from a tech experiment to a global financial operating system is nearly complete

This interested me, so I'll put it here.

Everyone’s talking about Accenture joining the Hedera Governing Council…

But almost nobody is talking about the move they made 2 weeks BEFORE 👀

Accenture invested into Genrobotics through Equity Labs to accelerate AI-powered robotics for manufacturing + logistics.

And if you connect the dots…

This could be massively bullish for HBAR 🤖

Their GRID platform connects 40+ robot brands together using AI + NVIDIA Omniverse simulations.

We’re talking: • autonomous factories
• AI-driven warehouses
• robots coordinating tasks in real time
• physical AI operating at enterprise scale

Now ask yourself…

What network is built for: • trusted AI data
• machine-to-machine payments
• immutable audit trails
• real-time supply chain tracking
• enterprise-grade scale

That’s exactly where Hedera fits.

Imagine swarms of autonomous robots: • paying each other for tasks
• verifying actions on-chain
• optimizing logistics in real time
• tracking inventory from factory to delivery

No “trust me bro” No manipulated data No broken transparency

Just verifiable coordination at scale.

People still think Hedera is “just another crypto” while enterprise infrastructure is quietly being built around AI, robotics, and real-world automation.

Accenture doesn’t make billion-dollar moves for hype. They position early for where the world is heading.

The market may be bearish right now…

But the adoption curve isn’t.

$HBAR

Through u/FireblocksHQ, institutions get secure, enterprise-grade infrastructure to store, transfer, and manage HBAR and HTS tokens with confidence.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitwave, the leading enterprise digital asset finance platform, today announced a collaboration with Hashgraph to build a native integration with USDC and HBAR on the Hedera Network, the public distributed ledger governed by a global Council of leading institutions.

The integration will extend Bitwave Payments to include support for transactions in USDC and HBAR on Hedera, bringing stablecoin-powered accounts payable workflows directly into enterprise ERP systems.

By combining Hedera’s council-governed public network, Bitwave, which is trusted by leading Fortune 100 enterprises and digital asset innovators for automating accounting workflows, ensuring regulatory compliance, and streamlining digital asset operations, offers a solution for scaling secure, compliant on-chain payments. The integration provides a structured foundation for enterprises seeking to operationalize on-chain payments within existing control frameworks.