State of the Ecosystem

With the release of Native Staking on Hedera, our network enters an exciting new era on our Pathway to Decentralisation. In this session, our Co-CEO and Founder, Dr Leemon Baird, provides an update on where we are on our Pathway to Decentralisation, the importance of decentralized governance, and the role of decentralized development. Leemon also touches on the features of Decentralisation and what you can expect them to look like.

Dr. Leemon Baird

Co-founder at Hedera & Swirlds Labs

Dr. Leemon Baird is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. Dr. Baird received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.