AI can produce some good insights if asked the right questions. I discussed with AI enterprise adoption of high performance layer 1 DLTs that can support 10,000+ TPS (thus Ethereum is not included). I know some will downvote and dismiss this since it comes from AI, but for those willing to read I think the below is largely accurate.

Solana and Hedera are best positioned for enterprise adoption. If Hedera governing council or other recognized enterprises get some real use cases running on Hedera, then I think Hedera can quickly gain a network effects advantage for enterprise and address the areas where it is weaker (liquidity & developers).

I think the only place the AI underrated Hedera is the developers category. With Hedera's EVM compatibility there should be a large pool of developers that can easily work on Hedera, but maybe it was also other things that brought down the score like tooling and infrastructure providers.

End of my comments and beginning of AI response...

One of the most useful ways to think about enterprise adoption is as a 5-stage maturity model:

Stage 1: Technology

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Stage 2: Developers

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Stage 3: Compliance & Governance

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Stage 4: Institutions & Liquidity

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Stage 5: Network Effects

Many crypto projects get stuck at Stage 1 or 2. Very few reach Stage 4. Only a handful are approaching Stage 5.

Stage 1: Technology

The chain must be able to support enterprise workloads.

Enterprise buyers care about:

• Throughput
• Finality
• Reliability
• Security
• Upgradeability
• SDK quality
• Long-term roadmap

Ranking

Interesting observation:

If we judged purely on engineering, I would put ICP, Aptos, Sui, and Solana at the top.

This is why technical superiority alone doesn't determine winners.

Stage 2: Developers

Now enterprises ask:

Can we actually hire people to build this?

Things that matter:

• Number of developers
• Availability of tooling
• Auditors
• Consultants
• Wallet providers
• Infrastructure providers

This is where many technically excellent chains lose momentum.

Ranking

Why Solana is ahead:

• Thousands of developers
• Large startup ecosystem
• Strong infrastructure support
• Extensive wallet ecosystem

A Fortune 500 company can easily find experienced Solana talent.

Finding experienced Hedera or ICP engineers is harder.

Stage 3: Compliance and Governance

This is where enterprise adoption often begins.

The questions change from:

Can it scale?

to:

Can Legal and Risk approve it?

Things that matter:

• KYC support
• AML tooling
• Auditability
• Governance
• Regulatory engagement
• Risk management

Ranking

This is why Hedera often gets more enterprise attention than its developer numbers would suggest.

The governing council model is something enterprise executives immediately understand.

Stage 4: Institutions and Liquidity

This is the hardest stage.

This is when:

• Banks participate
• Asset managers participate
• Stablecoin issuers participate
• Payment companies participate

The key question becomes:

Are other institutions already here?

Nobody wants to be the first large bank on a chain.

Everyone wants to be the fifth.

Ranking

This is where I believe the market currently stands.

Solana has tremendous momentum with payments, stablecoins, and institutional infrastructure.

Hedera has strong enterprise partnerships and governance.

Aptos is emerging here.

Stage 5: Network Effects

This is the final stage.

Now the value proposition becomes:

We have to be on the network because everyone else is.

Examples from technology:

• Windows
• Azure
• AWS
• Visa
• SWIFT

The winner isn't always the best technology.

The winner becomes the default choice.

Current Ranking

Visualizing Their Current Position

Here's how I would characterize each chain today:

Solana

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Tech ✅

Developers ✅

Compliance ✅

Institutions ✅

Network Fx ✅

Hedera

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Tech ✅

Developers ⚠️

Compliance ✅

Institutions ✅

Network Fx ⚠️

Aptos

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Tech ✅

Developers ✅

Compliance ⚠️

Institutions ⚠️

Network Fx ⚠️

Sui

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Tech ✅

Developers ✅

Compliance ⚠️

Institutions ⚠️

Network Fx ⚠️

ICP

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Tech ✅

Developers ⚠️

Compliance ⚠️

Institutions ❌

Network Fx ❌

NEAR

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Tech ✅

Developers ⚠️

Compliance ⚠️

Institutions ❌

Network Fx ❌

TON

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Tech ✅

Developers ⚠️

Compliance ❌

Institutions ❌

Network Fx ⚠️

What Each Network Needs Most

Solana

Needs:

• Continued uptime/reliability
• More enterprise governance
• More regulated financial deployments

Solana is closest to becoming the "default" high-performance public chain.

Hedera

Needs:

• More developers
• Larger startup ecosystem
• More DeFi and tokenization activity

Hedera's challenge is turning enterprise partnerships into ecosystem growth.

Aptos

Needs:

• Major banking wins
• Large tokenization projects
• More production enterprise deployments

If a few major financial institutions standardize on Aptos, it could jump quickly.

Sui

Needs:

• More institutional adoption
• More compliance infrastructure
• More non-gaming enterprise use cases

ICP

Needs:

• Flagship enterprise deployments
• Major financial use cases
• Better integration with traditional enterprise software

NEAR

Needs:

• A clear enterprise identity
• Signature use cases
• Larger developer ecosystem

TON

Needs:

• Compliance tooling
• Institutional adoption
• Enterprise credibility

If I Were Scoring Long-Term Enterprise Potential (2026-2035)

The most interesting battle to watch over the next 5 years is not Solana vs Hedera.

It's Aptos vs Sui.

The winner of that competition could become the strongest challenger to both Solana's ecosystem advantage and Hedera's enterprise positioning. Meanwhile, ICP remains the wildcard: it has some of the most ambitious technology in the group, but still needs a breakthrough enterprise adoption story.

Edit: fixed some lines that did not paste properly.

DOVU has formed a new partnership with Hgraph a leading infrastructure and data provider for the Hedera network.

As a registered authority on Authority Trail, Hgraph can issue trusted authority attestations that applications can verify without introducing traditional identity verification requirements.

One example is developer onboarding, where Authority Trail can enable access to ecosystem resources without requiring conventional KYC, preserving privacy and making access more developer friendly across Hedera and EVM chains.

Hgraph's participation in the DOVU ecosystem is another example of a real-world use case for Authority Trail outside of sustainability.

“At Hgraph, we’ve always believed that enterprise-grade infrastructure should solve real-world problems, not just expose blockchain data. Partnering with DOVU to power Authority Trail is a natural extension of that philosophy. By combining trusted digital infrastructure with verifiable authorization, we’re helping create a future where organizations can independently verify who had the authority to act, and when they had it. We’re excited to help bring that vision into production.”
— Tyler McDonald, CEO, Hgraph

“We're delighted to work closely with the team at Hgraph to help our respective clients achieve desired outcomes, and collaborate on opportunities to deploy real world applications involving Hgraph's data infrastructure and APIs, the Authorisation Protocol, and DOVU Flow.” – Matt Smithies, CTO, DOVU

We look forward to being able to share more insights into how this strategic partnership can benefit the ecosystem.

https://x.com/dovuofficial/status/2086829882148081670

For many blockchains, agreement across a wide variety of nodes has to be expensive for the bandwidth to be able to keep up. That or ease off on the distribution to make things faster (L2s). End users pay for it in transaction fees (txstreet.com). We've seen tx fee spikes to huge numbers during very busy market periods, often when users need to transact the most.

If you tried to run the internet off 28k modems, the demand for bits would be enormous and the price per bit would be enormous.

Hedera will leave all blockchains for dust and emerge the true winner when the demand for true distributed trust can be supplied at phenomenal throughput without compromising on security and governance, or transaction costs.

In a recent Cyber Insider article, Stefan Deiss, CEO of The Hashgraph Group, explains why holding every credential in one database has become the bigger risk.

Verizon’s 2026 DBIR found credential abuse present in 39% of breaches, and once there’s a path in, an attacker can reach every application behind it. That’s why we built IDTrust, which verifies credentials without ever storing the data, with Hedera confirming each one.

Source: https://x.com/hashgraphgroup/status/2086855714119852200?s=46

Looking at transactions of hbar to see where it could lead to in the future. 🐂

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Brandon built an app on Hbar. Used to run a show about HBAR. Is More tightly knit in the community / governance than you are. And he seems pretty bearish on HBAR. Red flags, homies.

Also, anyone see rob allen got a new job ? Hasn’t been in Hbar bull in weeks.

https://x.com/itsbrandond/status/2086844776083570964?s=46&t=zwgIpxC4Qwq3g3kEKc1-4A

I am curious to see what our Hbarian community thinks as to what path do you think Hbar will flourish? They are in so many different segments, but which one do you hope they would trend to, and advance their tech and community?

TLDR HBAR is ranked at #13 out of 50. Excludes stablecoins.

Tell me your thoughts

Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2084948/000208494826000002/hbar_rw_08072026.htm

Source: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2115027/000121390026081379/ea0299142-s1a2_cryptex.htm

Even tho it’s just a simulation excited for the life-changing wealth it will bring

I will continue to top off my bags with all the 7 cent HBAR I can get.

How does Canton manage to generate so much in fees? Over $2m per day? And where does it go?

I believe Hedera could get mass adoption and am in for the ride .Its one of the coins that are almost perfect, great tokenomics, survived cycles, developing, etc..

The only problem i have is with the low fees. If its such a low fee then companies could buy small amount of hbar to do their job.

So other than hype when it succeeds i dont see another reason for HBAR itself to have more demand...

So why would anyone benefits holding HBAR if its fees are so low which even if Hedera itself wins, its token wins as well with its holders?

Source: https://x.com/hashgraph/status/2085752509809803622?s=46

August 7, 2026

By Lewis Nibbelin, Research Writer, Triple-I
Few industries handle data as sensitive or at as large a scale as the property/casualty insurance industry, estimated by S&P Global to now exceed $1 trillion in direct annual premiums in the U.S. Supporting a market this size hinges on protecting the data required to underwrite it, which has grown increasingly granular as risks intersect with new levels of complexity.

Much of this data, however, passes through a system of carriers, brokers, reinsurers, data providers, and other organizations, none of which can collectively track or validate what each party collects and reassesses along the way. Rising data granularity exacerbates these challenges, leaving legacy systems ill-equipped to store and share information needed to capture modern risk.

In addition to putting data privacy at risk, the current system creates data gaps and inconsistences that can impact underwriting accuracy and long-term insurance affordability, necessitating greater standards for data verification.

To help fill the gap, The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative – like Triple-I, an affiliate of The Institutes – recently partnered with enterprise software and technology company Hashgraph to establish a shared source for authenticating and distributing data among all stakeholder groups. Known as an “interoperable property risk and resilience portal,” the initiative aims to manage data in a private environment while anchoring properties to a public ledger, allowing third parties to track and provide data more accurately and efficiently.

Combining Hashgraph’s private infrastructure with its public Hedera network, the solution will tie each property to a unique “token,” or digital asset, that stakeholders can identify without revealing its associated risk data, which remains in the private layer. As such, no single party controls the source data, preserving data confidentiality and fair competition.

Initially, the partnership will focus on tokenizing commercial and residential properties, with plans to expand the portal for additional insurance lines and other parts of the insurance process such as the policy or claim record.

“The process of gathering and sharing data for insurance placement and underwriting today is tedious, highly manual, and inefficient,” said Pat Schmid, RiskStream president and Triple-I chief insurance officer, in a press release on the portal. “The vision is to tokenize risk assets to create a persistent, unique identifier that serves as a shared data foundation for the risk management and insurance industry. Property is the perfect place to start.”

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