Hedera just co-sponsored the USA House at Davos alongside Microsoft, Ripple, and Pfizer. That’s not a side event. That’s the first officially recognized American headquarters on the Davos Promenade, housed in a transformed 19th-century Alpine church. The World Economic Forum’s 2026 Annual Meeting ran January 19-23 under the theme “A Spirit of Dialogue,” and Hedera showed up not as a crypto project looking for legitimacy but as enterprise infrastructure already embedded in conversations about tokenization, AI governance, and carbon markets.
Hedera is proud to be an official sponsor of the USA House during the @wef Annual Meeting in Davos, and will contribute to senior-level discussions on digital assets, AI, central banking, and G20 coordination.
— Hedera (@hedera) January 14, 2026
Learn more about USA House: https://t.co/yKvIiVn8GZ pic.twitter.com/3mCEgoO8f1
USA House and the Institutional Stage
Hedera served as a “Freedom” level sponsor of USA House, sharing the stage with Microsoft, C3 AI, Ripple, The Digital Chamber, Exiger, McKinsey & Company, and Pfizer. The company also sponsored GBBC’s 9th Annual Blockchain Central Davos and participated in Web3 Hub Davos through The Hashgraph Association.
This isn’t about brand visibility. It’s about where policy discussions happen. Senior-level conversations on digital assets, AI, central banking, and G20 coordination took place inside these venues. Hedera leadership participated in panels examining what comes next for U.S. digital asset regulation, the role of stablecoins in payments and settlement, and the importance of global coordination as regulatory frameworks evolve.
Tokenization dominated the conversation across the Promenade. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink called for rapid adoption of tokenization on “one common blockchain,” stating that every currency, ETF, and asset will be digitized with a global settlement layer connecting it all. Real-world asset tokenization has now surpassed $21 billion in total value locked. Executives from BlackRock, Coinbase, and Euroclear are no longer debating whether tokenization will work. They’re debating how to make it operational across institutions.
Proud to be a co-sponsor of the USA House at Davos. Expecting a busy week. pic.twitter.com/CX6SxYD4BZ
— Mance Harmon (@ManceHarmon) January 18, 2026
EcoGuard Global Launch: Carbon Markets Get Infrastructure
The Hashgraph Group launched EcoGuard at Davos on January 20. EcoGuard is a carbon market workflow platform built on Hedera that automates the full carbon credit lifecycle, from project creation and verification to issuance, tracking, trading, and retirement. The global carbon market could reach $5 trillion by 2035. EcoGuard directly addresses long-standing structural issues in the market, including greenwashing, double-counting, and scalability limits.
Stefan Deiss, CEO of The Hashgraph Group, put it directly: “EcoGuard addresses the challenges of the global carbon markets and provides an end-to-end fully managed solution built on Hedera. EcoGuard is not just about transforming compliance from a burden into a sustainable revenue opportunity; it offers enterprises a verifiable, adaptable, and scalable platform to accelerate the journey towards net-zero targets and prove real climate action.”
The platform uses Hedera’s aBFT consensus to ensure data integrity, anchors cryptographic proof at every step via jBPM workflow engine, integrates decentralized identity through THG’s IDTrust framework, and deploys Agentic AI for automated ESG reporting. This isn’t a pilot. This is production-grade infrastructure backed by 24/7 service through HashCare, an ITIL-compliant managed services framework.
During WEF 2026, The Hashgraph Group launched EcoGuard, a platform where users can create, trade, and verify carbon credits. A Hashgraph video shows a demo of the platform. $HBAR pic.twitter.com/NK1OJ1achn
— ALLINCRYPTO (@RealAllinCrypto) February 10, 2026
Philippines Agreement: 347 Million Coconut Trees On-Chain
The most concrete announcement from Davos week came when EcoGuard Global signed an agreement with CONFED, the Confederation of Coconut Farmers Organizations of the Philippines. The partners will build the country’s first Digital Carbon Office on Hedera, with deployment targeted for June 2026. The agreement signals national-scale execution rather than a limited pilot.
The scale is large. CONFED represents more than three million coconut farmers managing 540 million tonnes of CO₂e across 3.6 million hectares. EcoGuard will register 347 million coconut trees on-chain and link them to real-time digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification. This structure allows farmers to monetize verified sequestration without long settlement delays.
CONFED President Charles Avila highlighted the shift toward Carbon Markets 2.0. Real-time dMRV replaces manual audits and delivers incentives when sequestration occurs. Meanwhile, this agreement builds on The Hashgraph Group’s work on India’s first State Carbon Bank in Maharashtra and extends the same model globally.
Executive Presence: CNBC, Nasdaq, and GBBC
Hedera leadership was visible across media and industry events throughout the week.
Mance Harmon, Hedera Co-Founder and Council Chairman, joined CNBC to discuss the network’s differentiators and how institutions are leveraging its governance model. He described Hedera’s goal as “invisible ubiquity” – technology that powers Web3 infrastructure without users needing to know about the underlying plumbing. His statement to CNBC captures the positioning: “We have a council of global enterprises. These are organizations of the caliber of Dell and IBM, Deutsche Telekom and Google; they set the policy and provide oversight. Hedera will provide the services needed for the new economy.”
Mance Harmon told Davos exactly where $HBAR is headed 💎 💎 💎
— X Finance Bull (@Xfinancebull) January 27, 2026
"Invisible and ubiquitous."
Let that satisfacer.
The goal isn't for people to know they're using $HBAR. The goal is for HBAR to power everything behind the scenes. Every transaction. Every settlement. Every data… pic.twitter.com/8skb1wzru1
Eric Piscini, Hashgraph CEO, participated in a fireside chat with Tim Adams, President and CEO of the Institute of International Finance, at the Nasdaq and IIF “Igniting Innovation in Finance” event. The discussion examined how digital assets, AI, and new market infrastructure are reshaping financial services and what it takes to ensure these changes strengthen global financial stability. Piscini also joined industry leaders from Ava Labs, GBBC, and Filecoin Foundation at Blockchain Central Davos to explore how AI and blockchain intersect and why governance and practical use cases must guide innovation.
At Davos Day 2, @episcini CEO @hashgraph was honored to participate in a fireside chat with @IIF President and CEO @timothydadams at the @Nasdaq and IIF ‘Igniting Innovation in Finance’ event. pic.twitter.com/vYG88xCJnF
— Hedera (@hedera) January 20, 2026
Nilmini Rubin, Hedera’s Chief Policy Officer, joined a panel at USA House alongside leaders from Euroclear, Chainlink Labs, and Atlantic Council to examine the future of U.S. digital asset policy. Discussions covered market structure, investor protection, and the growing role of stablecoins in payments and settlement. Rubin was also recognized at GBBC’s Appreciation Awards for her leadership in blockchain and public policy. She serves on the WEF 2025-2026 Global Future Council on Decentralized Finance.
⚡ Nilmini Rubin, Chief Policy Officer at @hedera, on working with regulators, and institutional interest in using the Hedera DLT from the Reserve Bank of Australia and more. $HBAR pic.twitter.com/ddTZr4TC5R
— ALLINCRYPTO (@RealAllinCrypto) January 11, 2026
AI Governance: The Trust Layer Thesis
AI and blockchain convergence was a defining topic at Davos 2026. Hedera positioned itself as infrastructure for accountable AI systems through partnerships with EQTY Lab, Accenture, and NVIDIA.
The Verifiable Governance and Sovereignty solution integrates Hedera with EQTY Lab’s AI Guardian technology and Accenture’s multi-agent gateway. Running on NVIDIA DGX Cloud, the system delivers immutable verifiability of nation-state and regional sovereignty controls for AI agentic provenance. Use cases include government, public safety, and critical infrastructure.
This matters because as financial systems automate execution, regulators and auditors require clearer accountability. Who initiated each action? Under what authority was it taken? Which rules applied at the time? Kamal Youssefi, President of The Hashgraph Association, noted that at automated speed, “records move from the back office to the centre of trust.” Provenance and accountability become prerequisites, not features.
The Hashgraph Association Perspective
Youssefi published his observations from Davos on February 10, framing digital assets as a sector “moving toward its moment.” His assessment: “I heard perspectives on the technology that have circulated quietly within institutions now voiced publicly, confirming to me that digital assets belong in the same conversation as capital markets, payments, and financial infrastructure.”
He identified three operational requirements for systems that hold up under pressure:
- Clear ownership: Who’s accountable when things break?
- Coordination mechanisms: Can institutions act together quickly?
- Explicit decision rights: Who makes the calls when problems come?
“Where these elements fail under pressure, systems fail with them,” Youssefi wrote. “Successful deployments reinforce these points early. Failed ones discover the gaps too late.”
On stablecoins, he noted the emerging consensus now treats them as financial infrastructure with clear expectations around governance: who can issue, who can intervene, and where responsibility lies when markets move quickly.
From Signal to Execution
Davos 2026 marked a shift from signaling to execution. Digital assets moved into the role of operational infrastructure, not experimental technology. Hedera arrived with a live carbon market platform, a national-scale agreement signed during the week, AI governance partnerships running on NVIDIA hardware, and leadership participating directly in high-level policy discussions.
As The Hashgraph Association noted, tokenization has crossed a critical threshold. Infrastructure now operates in production. Regulatory frameworks are forming. Major institutions are committing capital. These signals no longer point to future adoption. They confirm present deployment.
The remaining constraint is not technology. It is governance speed. Markets, infrastructure, and policy now advance in parallel. Davos exists to resolve that tension. This year, Hedera did not observe the conversation. It helped shape it.
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