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Market cap$11B

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24h volume$300M

Circulating supply35.00B HBAR

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All-time high$0.57

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About Hedera (HBAR)

Layer-1 blockchain

Hedera (HBAR) is a Layer-1 blockchain — a base network with its own consensus, validators, and native coin (HBAR) used to pay fees and secure the chain. Developers build applications directly on it, and HBAR is the asset that powers the whole ecosystem.

How does Hedera work?

The Hedera network is maintained by a distributed set of participants who validate transactions and add them to the blockchain. HBAR is required to pay for transactions and, on many networks, to stake and help secure the chain in exchange for rewards.

What is HBAR used for?

HBAR pays network fees, can often be staked for yield, and serves as the core unit of value across apps built on Hedera. Demand for HBAR tends to track activity and adoption on the network itself.

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Hedera (HBAR) swap profile

This profile explains how Hedera swaps work on SwapRocket: the network HBAR settles on, what an exchange costs, how long it usually takes, and which pairs are published. Rates are aggregated live from every connected provider and shown in full before you commit to anything.

HBAR key facts

Ticker: HBAR
Settlement network: Hedera
Category: Layer-1 blockchain
Custody: Non-custodial — coins move from the provider straight to your wallet
Cost to you: Zero added fees; you see the provider rate
Verification: No KYC for crypto-to-crypto swaps
Typical completion: Most swaps finish in under 10 minutes
Rate options: Best rate, fastest route or fixed rate
Published pairs: 4 published HBAR pairs

How a HBAR swap works

Enter the amount you want to exchange, pick the asset on the other side, and SwapRocket queries every connected exchange partner at once. You choose an offer, paste the wallet address that should receive the funds, and send HBAR to the deposit address shown. The partner executes the trade and pays out to your address — SwapRocket never holds your coins, and there is no account to create before you start.

Choosing a rate for HBAR

Three offers are presented for every HBAR exchange. The best rate returns the largest amount for the size you entered. The fastest route favours the partner with the shortest expected settlement time, which matters when the market is moving. The fixed rate locks the quoted amount for the duration of the order, so what you are shown is what arrives, at the cost of a slightly smaller payout. Floating offers can move with the market between deposit and settlement.

Networks and addresses for HBAR

Hedera settles on Hedera. Always send from and to an address on that network: a deposit sent over a different chain cannot be recovered by the exchange partner. When an asset exists on several chains, pick the matching network in the widget before copying the deposit address, and send a small test amount first if you are unsure.

Popular HBAR pairs

Each pair below has its own page with a live quote, the current rate and the limits that apply to that route.

What is HBAR? · Sourced guide · Updated 2026-09-23 · 12 sources cited

Most public networks ask anonymous validators to reach consensus and let governance form later. Hedera inverted that order — naming a council of organizations before mainnet launched. What does building governance first change about how the network runs?

Hedera did not start from a mining community or a validator lottery. It started from a whitepaper describing hashgraph, a consensus algorithm built on gossip and virtual voting, and from a founding council of named enterprises that would govern the network and run its nodes. That order — algorithm and governing body specified before the ledger opened to the public — shaped everything that follows: how transactions finalize, who can propose changes, and why the network reads more like a managed utility than an open commons. The trade-off is explicit rather than hidden, and it is worth understanding on its own terms.

A different way to agree on order

Hedera's consensus mechanism, hashgraph, was described by Leemon Baird in a 2016 technical report as a way for distributed nodes to reach agreement without the sequential block competition used in earlier public ledgers. Nodes exchange information about transactions using a gossip protocol — each node periodically tells a small number of other nodes what it has heard, including who it heard it from. Because that gossip history is itself shared, nodes can compute, rather than vote in real time on, what the rest of the network almost certainly saw and in what order, a technique the whitepaper calls virtual voting.

The claimed benefit is a consensus algorithm that can achieve agreement without discarding competing blocks the way proof-of-work chains do, since gossip-about-gossip preserves a record of events instead of racing chains against each other. Hedera describes its ordering guarantee as asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant, meaning it is designed to reach consensus even without assumptions about network delivery timing, provided enough nodes are honest. That property is a specific, documented design goal rather than a general claim about invulnerability.^{[1], [2], [3]}

A council before a community

Rather than launching with an unnamed validator set and inviting governance to emerge afterward, Hedera published its governing model before mainnet went live in 2019. The Hedera Governing Council is capped at a defined maximum number of member organizations, each serving fixed, staggered terms and each entitled to run one network node and cast one vote on council decisions, regardless of how much HBAR that organization holds. Members named at various points have included large technology, telecommunications and financial firms operating across multiple industries and countries.

The council's published rules provide one vote per member, rotating terms and a maximum of 39 members. The governing documents also require unanimous consent to alter the total HBAR supply. Proposed protocol changes, fee schedules and treasury decisions therefore pass through a named institutional body rather than open miner or validator signalling, which is the governance choice that most clearly distinguishes Hedera from many other public networks.^{[4], [5], [6]}

Nodes, permissions, and a path toward opening up

At mainnet launch, only council members operated the network's consensus nodes; the software and network were public to send transactions against, but the nodes that order and finalize those transactions were run exclusively by vetted organizations. Hedera's public roadmap describes a staged transition toward permissionless nodes, introducing community-run nodes in phases rather than opening validation to anyone at launch. This sequencing reflects a deliberate choice to establish predictable, accountable node operation first and to expand participation over time rather than the reverse.

The native token, HBAR, is used to pay network fees and, since Hedera's Fair Consensus Timestamping design, cannot be used to buy priority in transaction ordering the way sender-set fees can elsewhere; timestamps are supplied by the median of node-reported receipt times, which the documentation presents as a defense against certain forms of transaction reordering for profit. Hedera's own fee model additionally sets transaction prices in US-dollar terms rather than floating purely with network demand, another example of a service-level design choice made explicit in its documentation.^{[7], [8], [9]}

Services built on a shared ledger

Hedera's public network provides several native services beyond simple value transfer: the Hedera Token Service lets applications create and manage fungible and non-fungible tokens directly at the network layer rather than through separately audited contract code, and the Hedera Consensus Service lets any application submit messages for ordering and timestamping without needing its own token or ledger logic. Hedera also runs a smart contract service compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, so contracts written for other EVM-based chains can be deployed with limited modification.

Because token creation and consensus ordering are offered as native services rather than solely as general-purpose contract code, some categories of application can rely on network-level guarantees instead of independently audited contract logic for those specific functions. That does not remove the need for applications to audit their own contract code where they use it, but it does describe a distinct architectural choice: certain common operations are standardized at the protocol layer.^{[10], [11], [12]}

The trade-off that remains open

Naming a governing council before opening node operation is a design choice with real consequences in both directions. It gives Hedera predictable membership terms, accountable organizations, and a documented rotation process instead of an anonymous or self-selected validator set. It also means that, unlike networks where anyone can become a validator by acquiring hardware and stake, becoming a Hedera consensus node operator currently depends on council membership or the specific permissionless-node program the roadmap describes, and that program has been rolled out gradually rather than completed in one step.

This is best understood as an ongoing design trade-off rather than a controversy to be resolved one way: permissioned governance can deliver operational accountability and consistent decision-making that fully open validator sets sometimes struggle to coordinate, while a broader, more permissionless node set can deliver participation guarantees that do not depend on the continued good conduct or continued existence of named institutions. Hedera's own roadmap acknowledges this by treating permissionless node expansion as unfinished work, which readers should track against the network's published progress rather than assume is already complete.^{[8], [4], [7]}

What this means when you hold or swap HBAR

HBAR addresses take the form of a shard, realm and account number rather than a hexadecimal string, and Hedera additionally supports optional memo or alias fields on accounts; a deposit address for HBAR is not interchangeable with an Ethereum-style address even when a service also lists EVM-compatible contract addresses on Hedera. Because fees are denominated in US-dollar terms and converted to HBAR at the time of the transaction, the HBAR amount deducted for an identical action can vary between transactions even when the service-level price does not.

Consensus finality on Hedera is intended to be fast and final once a transaction is gossiped and virtually voted on by the active node set, without the multi-block confirmation waiting periods used on proof-of-work chains, though individual services may still apply their own confirmation checks before crediting a deposit. Anyone relying on Hedera Token Service assets should also confirm whether a given token requires an explicit association step on the receiving account before it can be credited, since that is a network-level requirement distinct from ordinary transfers of HBAR itself.

Sources and evidence (12)

[1] Leemon Baird's 2016 technical report describes the hashgraph consensus algorithm, including gossip-about-gossip and virtual voting. Hedera — Hashgraph: A Fair, Fast, Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus · 2016-05-31 · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[2] Hedera nodes reach consensus using a gossip protocol in which nodes randomly share transaction and gossip history with other nodes. Hedera Documentation — Consensus Mechanism · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[3] Hedera describes its consensus algorithm as asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant, reaching agreement without relying on network timing assumptions. Hedera Documentation — Hashgraph Consensus Algorithms · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[4] The Hedera Governing Council has a fixed maximum membership, staggered terms, and grants each member organization one vote regardless of HBAR held. Hedera — Council · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[5] Hedera's governance structure uses rotating member terms, one vote per member and a council capped at 39 organizations. Hedera Council — Frequently asked questions · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[6] Hedera's public mainnet launched in 2019 with consensus nodes operated by Governing Council member organizations. Hedera — Mainnet Open Access Announcement · 2019-09-16 · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[7] Hedera's node network began with consensus nodes run only by council members, distinct from the network's public transaction access. Hedera Documentation — Node Requirements · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[8] Hedera's roadmap describes a staged transition to permissionless nodes, introducing community-run nodes over time rather than at initial launch. Hedera — Roadmap · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[9] Hedera's fair transaction ordering assigns consensus timestamps from the median of timestamps reported by nodes, rather than allowing senders to pay for reordering priority. Hedera Documentation — Transactions and Queries · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[10] The Hedera Token Service lets applications create and manage fungible and non-fungible tokens as a native network service. Hedera Documentation — Hedera Token Service · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[11] The Hedera Consensus Service lets applications submit messages for network-provided ordering and timestamping. Hedera Documentation — Hedera Consensus Service · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[12] Hedera Smart Contract Service supports EVM-compatible contracts, allowing Ethereum-targeted contract code to be deployed with limited modification. Hedera Documentation — Smart Contracts · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed

Profile last reviewed 2026-09-23. Historical background only — not investment advice.

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HBAR swap FAQ

How do I swap Hedera (HBAR) instantly on SwapRocket?

Pick HBAR as the asset you want to receive, choose what you're paying with, paste your wallet address, and confirm. SwapRocket hands your order to the provider whose quote pays out the most at that moment, and most swaps complete in under 10 minutes — no SwapRocket account needed.

Can I swap HBAR with no KYC?

No SwapRocket account or identity documents are needed to start a crypto-to-crypto swap of HBAR. The provider that executes the swap may still request identity verification or hold a swap for review under its own AML and sanctions policy, regardless of amount. Selling to a bank account goes through a regulated payment partner that verifies the payer; card purchases on SwapRocket are coming soon.

Is swapping Hedera on SwapRocket non-custodial?

Yes. SwapRocket never holds your funds. The provider that executes the swap receives your deposit, holds it only for the duration of the swap, and sends HBAR to the wallet address you provide.

Which network does HBAR use here?

SwapRocket supports Hedera on the Hedera network. Always double-check that your receiving wallet supports this network before confirming.

What fees apply when I swap HBAR?

SwapRocket adds no fee or markup to the provider's quote and may earn a commission from the provider on a completed swap. The provider's spread and any network cost it deducts on delivery are already reflected in the HBAR amount shown; the network fee your own wallet charges to send the deposit is separate. Spreads vary by provider, pair and size, so compare the quoted receive amount.

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