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  "id": "hedera",
  "name": "did:hedera",
  "status": "edge",
  "probation": true,
  "probationVerifiers": [
    "archon"
  ],
  "summary": "Hedera Consensus Service DID topics, signature-verified event by event.",
  "research": "HCS topics are publicly writable, so trust comes from signatures, not the topic: every message envelope is Ed25519-verified against the DID root key before folding, and the event history is bounded AND fail-closed — a topic exceeding the bound refuses to resolve rather than serving potentially stale state, because silent truncation would be floodable by an attacker without the key. A DIF Recommended method.",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Hedera DID method",
      "url": "https://github.com/hashgraph/did-method"
    },
    {
      "label": "vendored package",
      "url": "https://github.com/decentralized-identity/thisdid/tree/main/vendor/hedera-did-resolver"
    },
    {
      "label": "W3C DID Methods registry",
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/did-extensions-methods/"
    }
  ],
  "lastReviewed": "2026-08-23",
  "network": "Hedera (HCS)",
  "example": "did:hedera:testnet:zHirM7oP62rzBmw4oSbWZTSeTLzb9zrDTfQa1cdMBWCPp_0.0.7280148",
  "chain": [
    "ThisDID",
    "godiddy",
    "archon"
  ],
  "dif": {
    "recommended": "https://github.com/decentralized-identity/did-methods/blob/main/dif-recommended/findings-did-hedera.md",
    "dockerDriver": {
      "image": "ghcr.io/hiero-ledger/uni-resolver-driver-did-hedera:v0.1.7-8ae3a53",
      "repo": "https://github.com/hiero-ledger/identity-collaboration-hub/tree/main/universal-resolver-driver"
    }
  },
  "scores": {
    "resolutions24h": 0,
    "resolutions7d": 1,
    "resolutions30d": 329,
    "popularity": 55,
    "availability": 100,
    "canary24h": 100,
    "verificationMatch30d": 319,
    "verificationMismatch30d": 0
  }
}