FedEx Corp. (ticker: FDX), the global shipping giant moving over 16 million packages daily across 220+ countries, announced on Friday, February 13, that it has joined the Hedera Governing Council.
The news, published on FedEx’s newsroom, said FedEx will run a node on Hedera’s enterprise-grade public ledger and hold voting rights equal to other council members. This move is a clear signal that FedEx, with its roughly $90 billion in annual revenue and 500,000+ employees, is betting on blockchain to streamline global commerce.
Hedera touts its network as a “governed trust and notarization layer” for interoperable digital ecosystems, and FedEx’s executives say the goal is to bring supply chains from the “speed of paper” to “the speed of data.”
FedEx Commits to Blockchain: Digitizing the Global Supply Chain
FedEx’s announcement underscores its strategic emphasis on digitizing logistics. As EVP Vishal Talwar (who also heads FedEx Dataworks) said, “the digital transformation of global supply chains is inevitable.” He explained that as trade becomes more digital-native, “trusted data must be shared and verified across many parties without increasing risk or centralizing control.”
In practice, FedEx intends to contribute its deep operational expertise to Hedera’s open platform, building a cooperative infrastructure for tracking, identity, and data sharing across shippers and customs authorities.
When joining the council, FedEx noted it will help “advance trusted digital infrastructure for the future of global supply chains” and “reduce friction in cross-border commerce” with secure, shared data verification.
In short, FedEx is wagering that Hedera’s blockchain can cut paperwork and compliance delays, using cryptographic proofs rather than central intermediaries.
Hedera’s Council of Giants: FedEx Joins Google, IBM, Boeing, and More
Hedera’s governing council already reads like a corporate who’s who. Its members include Google, IBM, Boeing, Dell Technologies, LG, Deutsche Telekom, and others. The FedEx move adds a logistics powerhouse to this roster.
Hedera’s press release describes the council as a globally distributed body of Fortune 500s, banks, and Web3 innovators that ensure “decentralized, collusion-resistant governance” for the network. By taking a seat, FedEx now literally operates alongside peers; it will run a Hedera node and directly govern software updates with equal voting rights.
This continues a trend of blue-chip entrants. Just last December, energy giant Repsol (also a Fortune 500) joined Hedera for decentralized identity projects. Each new name lends credibility.
As one Hedera insider put it, adoption by council members is “a strong validation that Hedera has achieved market fit” with enterprise use cases.
From Paper to Data Speed: How FedEx Plans to Use Hedera
Both FedEx and Hedera see huge potential in making supply chains “digital-native.”
The Hedera network is carbon-neutral and designed for high throughput, making it suited to logistical data. In FedEx’s words, its Hedera collaboration will let “global commerce operate at the speed of data rather than the speed of paper.” In essence, this could mean using Hedera’s public ledger as a neutral verification layer.
FedEx’s statement notes Hedera provides an “enterprise-grade trust layer that enables verification at global scale,” allowing companies to “continue building differentiated capabilities” on top. In other words, FedEx does not plan to put sensitive shipment data on a public blockchain itself; rather, it will use Hedera for sharing fingerprints or proofs of data (like time-stamping paperwork or certifications) across partners, while keeping the actual data in its own systems.
As Hedera’s council president, Tom Sylvester notes, FedEx brings “deep operational insight into global logistics,” which should prove valuable as the shipping industry shifts toward fully digital tracking and standards
HBAR Reacts: Quick Pump or Sustained Momentum?
The FedEx news has also caught crypto traders’ attention. Hedera’s native token (HBAR) saw a modest bump after the announcement. At the time of writing, HBAR was around $0.099(TradingView), up about 8% over the prior week from announcement lows. This follows months of a sideways market.
As Disruption Banking noted in January, HBAR had been flat in roughly the $0.10–$0.14 range. In mid-January, it was about $0.12 (a roughly $5 billion market cap), but had slipped after crypto-wide headwinds.
The week of February 13–17 saw HBAR recover from multi-month lows (near $0.0735 at one point, per some trackers) into the mid-$0.09s. In our earlier outlook, we cautioned that HBAR’s 2026 upside depends on hitting technical and business milestones, not just news flow.
Author: Ayanfe Fakunle
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