Hedera Price Prediction: Hitachi Out, HBAR Slips Back

Hedera (HBAR) trades at around $0.094, or about 0.084 euros, early on Thursday morning, October 8, 2026 (according to CoinGecko). That leaves it roughly 10 percent lower over seven days, back exactly where it stood before the jump that followed the IBM news of September 28. The same week brings news from the body that runs the network: Hitachi no longer appears on the Hedera Council membership list. For the Hedera price prediction, what counts is which of this is sentiment and which touches the fundamentals of the network.

Hitachi Missing From the Hedera Council: What Is Established

The Hedera Council is the body that governs the network. Its members run the nodes Hedera operates on and vote on software updates. Every member has an equal vote and terms are limited, as the council sets out on its own website. That page currently lists 33 members, among them Google, IBM, Dell, Deutsche Telekom and LG. Hitachi is absent. An archived version of the same page from September 24 still had the company as one of 34 members.

Hitachi America joined in January 2024, announced in Davos. The aim at the time was to pilot first supply chain and sustainability applications on Hedera within a year, as set out in the announcement of the membership. Since October 1 the Hedera community has been circulating the claim that the membership ended on September 30. Neither Hitachi nor the council has published a reason.