Hedera Developer Highlights August 2025

Hi there,

This is Michiel from Hashgraph, bringing you the August developer highlights.

The SDK Feedback Survey is now live, and we want your input! This is your chance to shape the future of Hedera SDKs by sharing what’s working, what’s missing, and where we can improve. Whether you build dApps, tools, or integrations, your feedback will help us deliver the features and developer experience you need most.

This month’s updates also include key network changes and learning resources. We cover the upcoming SDK namespace transition to Hiero, the full routing of mainnet traffic through the new HIP-1217 logic, and deep dives into HIP-1046 and HIP-1127 from our latest Technical Community Call. Let’s dive in!

Announcements

• 07.29.25 Reminder: Namespace Transition Announcement: Hedera Projects Moving to Hiero
• 08.27.25 The SDK Feedback Survey is Live
• 09.01.25 Reminder: 100% of Traffic Routed to New HIP-1217 Logic on Mainnet

Featured Media

Technical Community Call: Exploring HIPs 1046 & 1127, Hiero Transition, and Developer Tools

This stream dives into HIP-1046 and HIP-1127, explaining the proposed improvements and how they could impact developers building on Hedera. The conversation also covers the transition of the Hedera namespace to Hiero, outlining the key changes and expected timelines for the migration. To wrap up, they showcase recent upgrades to the Hedera Developer Playground, designed to make testing, exploring APIs, and experimenting with smart contracts even easier for developers.

HIP Talk: gRPC-Web Proxy Endpoint Support

In this HIP Talk episode, the team highlights HIP-1046, a new feature in Hedera Release 64 that adds dynamic gRPC-Web proxy endpoint discovery. This eliminates the need for hardcoded endpoints in SDKs, simplifying development and enabling faster network scaling when nodes are added or updated.

Developer Resources

Blog: Hedera Release Cadence Overview

In the latest installment of the Release Overview Series, explore how Hedera delivers reliable updates with precision and consistency to maintain a stable and adaptable infrastructure. You’ll also discover how this approach ensures backward compatibility, minimizes deployment risks, and delivers improvements to developers faster.

Hashgraph Hustlers: Building a Yield Farming AI Agent for Bonzo Finance

In this Hashgraph Hustlers episode, the team live-codes a yield-farming AI agent for Bonzo Finance using the new Hedera Agent Kit v3 plugin architecture. They build a Bonzo market-data plugin that fetches supported tokens and APYs. They then demonstrate how an agent can match a user’s wallet holdings to yield opportunities, while emphasizing risk management such as monitoring the health factor and avoiding liquidations

Hedera Improvement Proposals

HIP-1046: gRPC-Web Proxy Endpoint Support in the Hedera Address Book

HIP-1046 proposes adding gRPC-Web proxy endpoint information to the Hedera Address Book so the JavaScript SDK can dynamically discover secure, TLS-enabled endpoints instead of relying on hard-coded values. This change removes the need for manual updates when endpoints change, improves scalability as more independent nodes join, and makes it easier for frontend applications to connect to the network.

HIP-1259: Fee Collection Account

HIP-1259 proposes creating a dedicated fee collection account (0.0.802) where all network fees are deposited before being distributed once per day at the start of each staking period. Instead of sending portions of each transaction fee to multiple accounts immediately, the network will batch these payouts to the admin, staking reward, node reward, and individual node accounts. This approach reduces per-transaction processing, shrinks block stream size, simplifies transaction records for users, and improves overall network performance without changing how rewards or incentives work.

HIP-1217: Contracts/Calls API Changes

HIP‑1217 improves Hedera’s /api/v1/contracts/call endpoint by replacing the old monolithic EVM implementation with a modular execution flow integrated via the hedera-app library. This ensures contract calls on mirror nodes behave identically to those on consensus nodes, improving gas estimates, error messaging, and support for newer system contracts.

Developer Events

Stay informed about upcoming Hedera developer events with our public events calendar at hedera.com/events.

• Hedera Africa Hackathon
• ETHGlobal New Delhi
• DEVCONNECT Buenos Aires

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