{"id":57129,"date":"2022-02-03T18:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57129"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:06:56","slug":"ubisoft-to-join-hedera-hashgraph-governing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ubisoft-to-join-hedera-hashgraph-governing-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft to join Hedera Hashgraph governing council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video-game publisher Ubisoft and the nonprofit organization driving Hedera Hashgraph&#8217;s ecosystem, the HBAR Foundation, have entered into a partnership aimed at supporting network growth and launching next-generation games on it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HBAR_foundation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HBAR_foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ubisoft?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ubisoft<\/a> is setting up a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hedera?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hedera<\/a>-dedicated track into the Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab. The Entrepreneurs Lab supports startups on a global scale, focusing on the future of entertainment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/75el4PInII\">https:\/\/t.co\/75el4PInII<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hedera (@hedera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hedera\/status\/1489230461008322563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company will join Hedera&#8217;s governing council and will also operate a node.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab initiative, the parties will identify promising projects on the Hedera network, providing them with investment, training and other support.<\/p>\n<p>The blockchain chief at Ubisoft&#8217;s Strategic Innovation Lab, Didier Gen\u00e8ve, noted that the company regards distributed ledger technology as \u201cthe key to the future of games\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The Hedera network offers a promising approach to this technology, in particular thanks to its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism&#8221;, \u2014 said he.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On February 3, the Hedera team announced the launch of the second version of EVM-compatible smart contracts on the mainnet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hedera?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hedera<\/a> Smart Contract Service is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVM?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EVM<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethereum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ethereum<\/a> Virtual Machine) compatible and runs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Solidity?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Solidity<\/a>, a programming language used by 30% of all <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Web3?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Web3<\/a> developers.&#8221; Read more about the upgrade to the Hedera Smart Contract Service here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dsxRro39Te\">https:\/\/t.co\/dsxRro39Te<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hedera (@hedera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hedera\/status\/1489210071213031431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is expected that Smart Contracts 2.0 will provide developers with lower and more predictable gas fees. Alongside users, they will gain more capability and flexibility in applying the solution.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, Ubisoft joined <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ubisoft-becomes-a-validator-on-the-tezos-network\">the Tezos blockchain ecosystem<\/a> as a corporate validator.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the company, in partnership with the project, launched a beta version of the Quartz platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ubisoft-unveils-platform-for-trading-in-game-items-as-nfts\">for trading in-game items<\/a> in NFT format.<\/p>\n<p>The integration of digital assets <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ubisoft-executive-comments-on-negative-player-reaction-to-nft-integration\">faced sharp criticism<\/a> from players, but Ubisoft said it would continue to expand NFT support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video-game publisher Ubisoft and the nonprofit organization driving Hedera Hashgraph&#8217;s ecosystem, the HBAR Foundation, have entered into a partnership aimed at supporting network growth and launching next-generation games on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1365,2169],"class_list":["post-57129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-hedera-hashgraph","tag-ubisoft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57130,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57129\/revisions\/57130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}