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OpenMatter Network Joins HOL Initiative to Help Define Standards for Verifiable AI Collaboration and Security

Melbourne, Florida, United States, July 8th, 2026, CyberNewswire

OpenMatter Network today announced that it has joined the founding group of organizations participating in the Hashgraph Online (HOL) Partner Program, where the company will help develop standards, policies and verification frameworks for secure autonomous AI systems and agentic computing environments.

As organizations increasingly deploy AI agents across distributed systems and enterprise environments, a new challenge is emerging: organizations can no longer rely solely on trust-based assumptions about how data is used, how computations are executed and how autonomous systems behave. The need for mathematically verifiable collaboration, governed AI behavior, and cryptographic proof is rapidly becoming one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the AI era.

The HOL Partner Program was created to help coordinate the development of open standards and interoperable frameworks that enable autonomous AI systems to securely identify themselves, communicate, transact and access sensitive information without relying on...

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