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The Hashgraph Group, or THG, announced that its IDTrust self-sovereign identity platform has been validated and officially listed on the IBM Cloud Catalog, making it among the first commercial Hedera-powered enterprise applications directly purchasable as a SaaS product through a major cloud marketplace. THG also qualified for IBM Silver Partner status and signed a global Embedded Solution Agreement with IBM covering Cloud and AI technology, a licensing and partnership agreement that lets technology partners integrate IBM technology into their own proprietary products to sell a complete, single-branded solution. IDTrust is a decentralized self-sovereign identity platform with enterprise-grade cryptography for AI agents, devices, and humans, already deployed with a leading European telecoms operator to power verified caller identity, and it provides decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials built on open W3C standards and designed to support the EU eIDAS 2.0 framework. The listing comes as Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise applications will embed task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025, and as Know Your Agent moves from a theoretical concern to an enterprise priority. For Hedera Hashgraph, the listing represents a significant distribution milestone, since IBM has been a member of the Hedera Governing Council since 2019 and enterprise clients can now purchase Hedera-anchored identity infrastructure through existing IBM consumption commitments.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair of Supervision Michelle Bowman is working to secure the banking system against AI-related risks, partnering with Visa and MasterCard to guard against potential cyberattacks. Bowman said the largest banks can use the technology and mitigate its risks, but smaller institutions, especially community banks, need closer scrutiny. She is working with service providers to ensure they test technology shared with smaller banks so it does not carry vulnerabilities that could harm end consumers. Separately, Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin said the supply shocks from tariffs and higher oil prices, layered on top of inflation that has stayed above the Fed's 2% target for more than five years, are not proving short-lived, which is why the Fed opted to hike rates last week. Barkin pointed to the possibility of more tariffs, the protracted conflict in the Middle East and the continuing AI buildout pressuring supply chains, and while he did not say how many more rate hikes might come, he left the door open to them.