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The Hedera roadmap
As an open source, public network, the Hedera product roadmap reflects the Hedera ecosystem’s ongoing commitment to continuous innovation, transparency, and delivering meaningful value to the community and ecosystem of builders. It highlights the status of Hiero Improvement Proposals, what’s coming next, and the long-term vision shaping the platform’s evolution.
Decentralization
Solo
Solo is Hedera’s latest tooling for running, testing, and managing networks locally and in controlled environments. It enables developers and operators to spin up custom networks, automate node configuration, validate upgrades, and test governance and protocol changes with minimal overhead.
EVM Compatibility
Support for Ethereum Pectra Release
Defines Hedera’s support for applicable Ethereum Pectra upgrades to maintain EVM compatibility. This work evaluates each Pectra EIP individually, adopting those relevant to Hedera’s Smart Contract Service—such as new cryptographic capabilities and updated gas semantics.
Precise smart contract throttling
Decouples gas billing from execution limits, enabling higher throughput, lower costs (eliminating the 80% minimum charge), and better UX while preserving Ethereum-tool compatibility with zero code changes.
Network Services
Simpler fees
Simplified and transparent fee model for Hedera network, reducing code complexity, enhancing network performance, and improving predictability and clarity of fees for all stakeholders.
High volume entity creation
Introduces a high-throughput lane for entity creation with pricing and throttling that scales under sustained load, enabling large-scale applications while protecting network stability.
Fee collection account
Introduces a dedicated fee collection account, improving accounting clarity and enabling future economic policy enhancements.
Hiero Improvement Proposals (HIPs)
Hiero hooks
Hooks embed business rules directly in native services without requiring full smart contracts or additional HIPs. This reduces overhead compared to contract calls, maintains Hedera’s API performance, and enables quick logic updates while preserving compliance and security, accelerating ecosystem innovation.
Network Architecture
TSS signatures
Instead of requiring individual signatures from every node, TSS signatures allow a single, aggregated signature to represent the consensus state of the network. This streamlines the process, reduces overhead, and ensures faster, more efficient verification.
Block Nodes (2/3) - state proofs
State proofs empower decentralized applications (dApps) and enterprises with provable integrity and auditability of blockchain-based activities. Foundational for future advancements like HashSphere and sharding.
Block Nodes (3/3) - reconnect & state snapshots
Offloads critical services from consensus nodes to block nodes, freeing up server resources for consensus operations, enhancing the scalability of the network by allowing consensus nodes to focus on their core functions. Improves performance, efficiency, and capacity.
Block Streams
New output stream that merges Hedera’s existing event, record, and sidecar streams into a single stream of verifiable data – enabling richer insights, improved efficiency, and streamlined integrations.
Network quiescence
Allows the network to pause block creation when no transactions or scheduled tasks are pending, and automatically resume when activity returns, improving operational efficiency.
0.68
Dynamic Address Book
Refines node account ID handling and operational workflows for the Dynamic Address Book. These improvements enable smoother, automated address book updates and strengthen network decentralization as node membership evolves.
Hedera Enhances Network Management With the Dynamic Address Book
Generalized scheduled smart contract call
Allows any smart contract to invoke the Schedule Service directly, adding new system-contract methods so contracts can set up future calls without relying on off-chain signatures or bots.
0.67
Improved block streaming metrics
Metrics for communication between consensus and block nodes have been reworked for clarity and utility.
0.66
Batch transactions
Executing batch transactions such that a series of transactions depending on each other can be rolled into one transaction that passes the ACID test (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability), enabling the creation of more complicated workflows without using smart contracts.
Block Nodes (1/3) - Block streaming and history
Initial Block Node release is capable of receiving, storing blockstreams and providing an API for block retrieval. Enables future scalability features like HashSphere and sharding, ensuring Hedera can support growing transaction volumes and enterprise usage.
0.65
Virtual Mega Map
The Virtual Mega Map enhances Hedera’s internal state data structure by consolidating all entities—including singletons, queues, and maps—into a single virtual map. This ensures the entire state rolls up to one root hash.
HIP-991 enhancements
Advancements in HIP-1056 & HIP-1127: block streams
Unified Transaction Record in Block Stream: Addresses historical duplication in how transactions are represented and creates a single, unified standard for the block stream.
0.64
Adding support for gRPC-Web proxy endpoints to the Address Book
This HIP cuts ongoing maintenance for dApp, lets independent node operators advertise their own secure web endpoints, and makes browser-based integrations simpler and more decentralized – accelerating Hedera adoption and improving network resilience.
0.63
0.62
Jumbo Ethereum transactions
Raises the limit on the size of Ethereum transaction callData, enabling single-transaction parity with most Ethereum-based smart contracts and calls – driving EVM-compatibility and improving the developer experience.
Zero cost Ethereum transaction on success
Updates the rules for charging fees for Ethereum Transactions, so that the payer of an EthereumTransaction will only incur a fee if the transaction fails due diligence checks.
0.61
HIP-1064: Daily rewards for active nodes
Full implementation of a daily reward mechanism for active consensus nodes, including an option for node operators to decline these rewards. This enhances network health by incentivizing consistent node uptime and participation.
0.60
Improve assignment of auto-renew account ID for topics
Full implementation of improved auto-renew account ID assignment for topics, enabling setting autoRenewAccountId during topic creation without an admin key
0.59
Permissionless revenue-generating Topic IDs
Introduces permissionless revenue-generating Topic ID, bringing improved economic scalability and enhancing both resource allocation and revenue distribution mechanisms for Topic Operators.
Schedule service system contract
Introduces the ability for smart contracts to interact with and support scheduled transactions via the Hedera API, enabling multiple parties to operate in the same contract by use of in-transaction signatures.
Scheduled token create/update transactions via smart contract
Enables scheduling token create and update operations through smart contracts, with implementation of the scheduleNative system contract function.
0.58
Long term scheduled transactions (2/2)
Extending transaction scheduling capabilities, making Hedera more versatile for institutions and enabling features like automated contract updates or long-term trust distributions. This enhancement improves accessibility for enterprise users requiring advanced planning and authorization timelines.
Dynamic Address Book (Stage 2)
Address Book changes applied daily with required node configuration changes automatically applied from Node Management Tool (NMT).
HIP-869: Dynamic Address Book documentation
Hedera Enhances Network Management With the Dynamic Address Book
0.57
Long term scheduled transactions (1/2)
Extending transaction scheduling capabilities, making Hedera more versatile for institutions and enabling features like automated contract updates or long-term trust distributions. This enhancement improves accessibility for enterprise users requiring advanced planning and authorization timelines.
0.56
Frictionless Airdrops
Frictionless Airdrops let folks easily send tokens to lots of people on Hedera, even if they’re not set up to get them yet. Projects can share tokens faster, and users can choose what they want to keep. Frictionless Airdrops brings the traditional airdrop experience to Hedera while respecting user sovereignty.
HIP-904: Frictionless Airdrops documentation
Dynamic Address Book (Stage 1)
Dynamic Address Book simplifies Address Book management by enabling node operators to control their entries via transactions submitted to Hedera’s mainnet. In Stage 1, HAPI endpoints are used to facilitate changes to the Address Book.
HIP-869: Dynamic Address Book documentation
Hedera Enhances Network Management With the Dynamic Address Book
Hedera Account Service (HAS) System Contract: isAuthorized()
The isAuthorized() function extends the Hedera Account Service (HAS) System Contract, enabling smart contracts to authenticate signatures against Hedera accounts.
Block Streams (developer access)
Block Streams with mock proofs publicly available to developers and node operators, enabling testing and integration. This feature offers a comprehensive view of the Hedera mainnet, including events, transactions, and state changes.
0.54
Update token custom fee schedules via smart contracts
HIP-514 introduced the ability for smart contracts to manage tokens. HIP-1010 implements system contract functions which enable developers to update or remove custom fees for fungible and non-fungible tokens.
Frictionless Airdrops (partial implementation)
Frictionless Airdrops let folks easily send tokens to lots of people on Hedera, even if they’re not set up to get them yet. Projects can share tokens faster, and users can choose what they want to keep. Frictionless Airdrops brings the traditional airdrop experience to Hedera while respecting user sovereignty.
HIP-904: Frictionless Airdrops documentation
0.53
Improve record stream legibility and extensibility
HIP-993 introduces multiple improvements to refine the legibility and extensibility of the record stream.
HTS mutable metadata in treasury
HIP-850 grants Supply Keys the ability to update NFT metadata after minting, allowing the metadata of individual NFT serials to be updated while they reside in the treasury wallet. This change empowers stakeholders with greater flexibility and control over NFT management without compromising the fundamental principles of immutability and asset integrity post-distribution.
Associate and dissociate tokens via facade contract
HIP-719 – introducing associate, dissociate, and isAssociated functions to token proxy redirect facade contracts – enables developers, Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs), and contracts to call these unique functions on HTS tokens in a way that is familiar to users of ERC-20 and ERC-721 standards