Leemon Baird on Hedera’s Technical Evolution and AI’s Resurgence
Leemon Baird, co-founder of Hedera, continues to champion hashgraph consensus as a superior alternative to traditional blockchain architectures. His academic roots in neural networks during the AI winter of the 1990s now intersect with distributed ledger technology’s competitive landscape.
Hedera’s trajectory reflects Baird’s dual expertise in computer science and commercialization strategy. As a featured speaker at Consensus 2025, he bridges technical nuance with market positioning, navigating an ecosystem where multiple protocols vie for dominance through technological differentiation.