Hedera is a decentralized public network where developers can build secure, fair applications with near real-time consensus. The platform is owned and governed by a council of global innovators including Avery Dennison, Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper, FIS (WorldPay), Google, IBM, LG Electronics, Magalu, Nomura, Swirlds, Tata Communications, University College London (UCL), Wipro, and Zain Group. The Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) acts as a trust layer for any application or permissioned network and allows for the creation of an immutable and verifiable log of messages. Application messages are submitted to the Hedera network for consensus, given a trusted timestamp, and fairly ordered. Use HCS to track assets across a supply chain, create auditable logs of events in an advertising platform, or even use it as a decentralized ordering service.
The retail industry loses approximately $500bln USD per annum*. OSA DC reduces this waste by uniting producer, retailer, and consumer with its blockchain-empowered solutions, all while fixing three major issues that hinder the retail industry today: inventory tracking on the blockchain will solve the problem of overstocking or understocking which costs retailers $400bln USD annually* the blockchain’s immutable ledger will provide more reliable product data and prevent business from abusing consumer trust OSA DC will cut back on product waste that results in a loss of $100 billion USD annually