NASA Exploration of Hedera HBAR: Unlocking New Futures for DLT AllinCrypto August 27, 2025
High-profile organizations (like NASA) are evaluating how Hedera Hashgraph and distributed ledger technology can be used to support new innovations.
A striking example is NASA’s exploration of Hedera Hashgraph in its research paper, “Hedera Hashgraph Based Distributed Ledger for Aerospace Applications.”
This exploration not only validates Hedera as a credible platform for critical use cases but also opens the door to future implementations in aerospace, defense, and other high-stakes environments where security, scalability, and trust are non-negotiable. Let’s explore high-profile firms that have explored HBAR’s use cases.
Why did NASA explore Hedera Hashgraph?
The aerospace industry involves immense amounts of data, systems, and highly complex supply chains. From spacecraft communication and satellite navigation, ensuring data is stored safely and has integrity with synchronization across all systems.
Traditional blockchains, while innovative, suffer from limitations in speed, scalability, and energy efficiency, drawbacks that make them unsuitable for high-profile aerospace missions.
As part of a contractor-led project with NASA, the space firm identified qualities that Hedera Hashgraph held, which were just enough to begin research into Hedera’s DLT and how the network could be used in aerospace.
From NASA:
The File Service Dapp, meets NASA’s Model Based System Engineering need, by providing enterprise level secure file storage, transfer, management, and version tracking among users, providing one source of “truth” for distributed parties.
The Space Mission Management Dapp will track and receive real time status reports on key ground, space, and communication resources, providing a verifiable decentralized source of “truth” for the management of those resources with maximum efficiency.
NASA also acknowledges Hedera Hashgraph’s industry connections, which lead to greater trust in the HBAR network:
CTEN Global is invested in called, Hedera Hashgraph. Hedera is a public distributed ledger technology (DLT) that solves all of the challenges and inefficiencies of the blockchain (commonly associated with Bitcoin and Ethereum).
Unlike blockchain, Hedera Hashgraph provides for transaction speeds up to 500,000 per second (with over 900,000 a day just in beta phase), the highest known level of security (Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance), and a world class governance council that includes Boeing, Google, and IBM, among others, as invested managing members.
Potential Aerospace Applications of Hedera Hashgraph via NASA
NASA’s research, completed between 2020 – 2021, outlined multiple key areas where Hedera Hashgraph could add innovative value:
- Spacecraft Communication: Satellites and spacecraft often operate in environments with high latency. Hedera’s consensus can support asynchronous communication, ensuring that once data is received, it is securely verified and fully immutable.
- Mission Data: Space missions produce critical scientific data. Recording this on Hedera would guarantee that the information is tamper-proof and auditable for researchers worldwide almost instantly.
- Supply Chains: Aerospace manufacturing depends on global supply chains. By tokenizing and tracking components on Hedera, NASA and its partners could ensure authenticity, traceability, and compliance all the way from production to full deployment.
- Autonomous networks: Space missions may rely on fleets of autonomous spacecraft in the near future. Hedera Hashgraph’s ability to provide consensus at a large scale could enable systems to coordinate securely without centralized control.
Real-World Implementations for Hedera
While NASA’s exploration was initially theoretical, it highlighted a broader trend that Hedera Hashgraph was, and is, emerging as a distributed ledger tailored for real-world, enterprise-grade needs.
With its enterprise governance mode, featuring companies like Google, IBM, Arrow Electronics, and Standard Bank, high-profile firms are able to trust Hedera for use cases.
Other high-profile firms, such as SEALSQ will use Hedera Hashgraph to engineer post-quantum semiconductors for drones to be operated by the US government.
WISeKey, a Switzerland-based fintech firm with a focus on cybersecurity and the Internet of Things (IoT) is using Hedera for its SEALCOIN Project, an initiative to create a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) for the Internet of Things. The network will leverage Hedera’s DLT network to enable peer-to-peer machine-to-machine transactions fueled by SEALCOIN, a native utility token.
Most recently, Lloyds Bank in the UK collaborated with Aberdeen Investments and Archax to tokenize money market funds on Hedera. Lloyds Bank, one of the largest in the UK, has highlighted the collaboration’s strengths.
In the near future, we may see implementations of Hedera in aerospace for real as trust in the network is set to accelerate.
Hedera as a Bridge
NASA’s interest in Hedera shows the versatility of Hedera’s distributed ledger network beyond trade finance and tokenization. While the tokenization of assets has captured most of the blockchain industry’s attention, Hedera is able to demonstrate that data integrity, scalability, and trust are universal features across all industries.
If aerospace agencies were to adopt Hedera for data and coordination, it would mark one of the most visible applications of DLT in real-world, highly sensitive contexts.
NASA’s past exploration of Hedera Hashgraph will echo future use cases and adoption of the network as time progresses.
Hedera’s architecture, designed for efficiency and enterprise readiness, shows that the network can be utilized in multiple high-profile situations with the world’s largest companies. Overall, this showcases how influential distributed ledger technology can be.
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