Open standards

Contributing to open standards.

Open specifications make shared problems easier to solve. These records distinguish Patches’ authorship, Turtle Moon’s collaborations and the wider HOL ecosystem, with a status and source for each contribution.

Contribution directory

HCS-20Published

Auditable Points

Patches contribution

A specification for recording and auditing point operations. HOL credits Turtlemoon with pioneering this work.

Contributor
Patches · author
Ecosystem
HOL / HCS
Verified
HCS-14Draft

Universal Agent ID

Patches contribution

Identifiers for agents across systems. Patches is one of the authors listed in the draft specification.

Contributor
Patches · co-author
Ecosystem
HOL / HCS
Verified
HCS-15Draft

Petals — Profile Accounts

Patches contribution

A proposal for multiple profile accounts associated with a base account.

Contributor
Patches · author
Ecosystem
HOL / HCS
Verified
HCS-16Draft

Floras — AppNet Accounts

Patches contribution

A proposal for coordinating groups of accounts. Co-authored with Kantorcodes.

Contributor
Patches · co-author
Ecosystem
HOL / HCS
Verified
HCS-17Draft

State Hash Calculation

Patches contribution

A proposal for calculating account and group state hashes. The draft specification lists Patches as author.

Contributor
Patches · author
Ecosystem
HOL / HCS
Verified
HCS-1Published

File Data Management

Turtle Moon collaboration

File storage and retrieval through HCS. HOL documents the organizations that developed this work together.

Contributor
Turtle Moon · contributor
Ecosystem
HOL / HCS
Verified

Collaborators: KiloScribe, Turtlemoon, SentX and HashPack.

HCS-5Published

Hashinals

Turtle Moon collaboration

Tokenized HCS-1 files. The specification is a shared contribution to the ecosystem.

Contributor
Turtle Moon · contributor
Ecosystem
HOL / HCS
Verified

Collaborators: KiloScribe, Turtlemoon, SentX and HashPack.

Status follows the linked specification as reviewed on September 11, 2026. HCS-14 remains Draft in that specification, despite a Published label in HOL’s GitHub organization overview.

A shared ecosystem.

HOL lists Turtlemoon in its member ecosystem. Its November 2024 genesis announcement also names Turtlemoon among the founding organizations.

View HOL’s member directory

A dated record of use.

HOL reported that HCS-20 had contributed to more than 18 million Hedera mainnet transactions as of November 2024. This historical metric is attributed to HOL.

Read the November 2024 source

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