Summary · why it matters
The price of the cryptocurrency Hedera (HBAR) has climbed sharply since September 28, rising about 34% on September 29 to briefly reach $0.13, according to CoinMarketCap data. Developer The Hashgraph Group (THG) announced on September 23 that its identity verification service IDTrust had been listed in the IBM Cloud catalog, explaining that this is the first time an enterprise application built on Hedera has been placed on a major cloud marketplace. NVIDIA also announced its Open Agent Safety Platform for AI agents on September 28, and the list of participating organizations' logos includes EQTY Lab, which has previously announced an AI verification platform on Hedera. Hedera's official X account posted that a representative of the Hedera Council is participating in the platform. In Japan, six crypto asset exchanges, including SBI VC Trade and BitTrade, handle Hedera.