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Michelle Baez
Head of Marketing, Hashgraph Online
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Smart Glasses, Embedded AI & Decentralized Trust

· 7 min read
Michelle Baez
Head of Marketing, Hashgraph Online

Smart glasses, always-listening assistants, and embedded AI are quickly moving out of science fiction and into everyday environments. With the Meta Ray-Ban Display and Apple's rollout of Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (PCC), we are seeing AI that not only lives on our phones, but in our physical, social, and public spaces. Sensors that used to exist only in industrial settings, including wide-field cameras, multi-array microphones, LiDAR, and gesture detection, are now stitched into consumer wearables and connected to powerful inference models. That shift introduces urgent risks: privacy violations, ambiguous data governance, legal exposure, and over-trust when AI is used in messy real-world contexts. If we want these technologies to scale responsibly, industries need infrastructure of trust built on strong governance frameworks, transparent practices, and, in some cases, decentralized standards that make compliance verifiable.

HCS-19: A New Privacy Standard for AI Agents

· 4 min read
Michelle Baez
Head of Marketing, Hashgraph Online

TL;DR

Hashgraph Online has published a draft standard called HCS-19: AI Agent Privacy Compliance, designed to help AI agents prove they handle user data responsibly. The standard defines how to log consent, privacy notices, data processing, rights requests, and audits on Hedera Consensus Service (HCS), making compliance transparent, verifiable, and interoperable.

Leading the effort is PrivacyCheq's aiCheq, an API that allows AI agents to collect, manage, and prove consent in real time, supported by Hedera-based auditing. Together, HCS-19 and aiCheq establish the foundation for trustworthy, privacy-aware AI.

August Recap: Desktop Preview & New Standards

· 4 min read
Michelle Baez
Head of Marketing, Hashgraph Online

TL;DR

August was a big month for Hashgraph Online.

  1. We launched the Developer Preview of HOL Desktop, giving builders a first look at our agent-based desktop environment.
  2. We released the draft of HCS-19, a new standard for AI Agent Privacy Compliance.
  3. We announced HCS-14, an upcoming Agent ID Standard that enables globally verifiable agent identities using the W3C DID framework.

Hedera x AI Hackathon Winners

· 5 min read
Michelle Baez
Head of Marketing, Hashgraph Online

Celebrating the Builders Pushing Decentralized AI Forward

Over several high-energy weeks the Hedera x AI Hackathon turned curiosity into working code. Thanks to our partners at Hashgraph and the Hedera Foundation, the hackathon and its companion Demo Day drew:

  • 300+ registered agents on testnet for OpenConvAI on https://moonscape.tech
  • 500K+ total livestream views across Hedera x AI channels
  • 300+ hacker sign-ups

The program also featured live remarks from Hedera co-founders Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon, with a judging panel spanning many networks and funds. Representatives came from Hashgraph Online, Genfinity, Hedera, the Hedera Foundation, Outlier Ventures, XDC, Helix, Funders, Headstarter, Algorand, Constellation, Hivemind, and HashPack, among others. Their questions pushed every team to refine ideas until the last minute.