Hedera Gains Institutional Recognition from FATF and HM Treasury Reports
Hedera has gained institutional recognition from two major institutions in July 2026. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published a report on DeFi, which examined how anti-money-laundering rules apply to decentralized finance. Hedera's framework for the DeFi stack was cited as the source of information by FATF.
The FATF report applies its Standards differently to each layer of the DeFi stack, with Hedera's framework providing a shared map for regulators to supervise DeFi. The settlement layer, which records transactions and provides consensus and final settlement, is where Ethereum, Solana, and Hedera are listed as examples.
The asset layer covers tokens that represent value onchain, with FATF naming ETH, SOL, and HBAR as native-token examples. However, the Standards target persons who provide token services, not the tokens themselves.
In a separate report by HM Treasury, Hedera was named as a live tokenization benchmark for Britain. The report highlighted Hedera's role in facilitating UK's first FX trades using tokenized real-world assets as collateral. These trades were settled in July 2025 between Lloyds Banking Group, Aberdeen Investments, and Archax.