The Hedera Governing Council has officially voted to purchase the intellectual property rights to the hashgraph consensus algorithm from founding architect and inaugural member of the council, Swirlds Inc, for an undisclosed fee.
A Wednesday announcement also details plans to transition their code to an open-source model this year under Apache 2.0 license, in addition to transferring core team members such as CEO Mance Harmon and chief scientist Leemon Baird from Hedera to Swirlds Inc. as the CEO and chief technology officer, respectively, and deploying community staking and node opportunities, among other updates.