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Hedera Certified Foundation (HCF)
Hashgraph Association
October 21, 2026
The program
Issued by The Hashgraph Association, the Hedera Certified Foundation certification validates foundational knowledge of the Hedera ecosystem. It covers distributed ledger principles, the Hashgraph consensus algorithm (gossip about gossip, virtual voting, aBFT security), the network's native services (Consensus Service, Token Service, Smart Contract Service), the role of HBAR and staking, and real-world use cases: real-world asset tokenization, decentralized identity, supply chain traceability and data provenance for AI.
- Issuer
- The Hashgraph Association
- Issued on
- October 21, 2026
- Digital badge
- Hashgraph Association
The certificate
Curriculum
- 01DLT and blockchain fundamentals
- 02Hedera Hashgraph: consensus, finality and security
- 03Hedera services and the HBAR token
- 04Use cases: payments, stablecoins, RWA, AI and identity
- 05Developer tools: Hedera Portal, testnet faucet, SDKs, HashPack, HashScan, mirror nodes
Skills covered
DLTHashgraph ConsensusaBFTHCSHTSSmart ContractsHBAR & StakingRWA TokenizationDIDWeb3
Hedera Certified Foundation HCF · Hashgraph Association