Switzerland’s first municipal blockchain initiative is now live on
@hedera.
The municipality of Muri bei Bern has launched BIDI, a digital biodiversity voucher system built on Hedera
The project shows how tokenization can move beyond financial markets and become part of public administration.
BIDI rewards citizens for concrete environmental work, such as maintaining meadows, removing invasive plants and protecting wetlands.
For every verified contribution, participants receive digital vouchers.
Each BIDI voucher represents the value of 1 Swiss franc and can be redeemed at participating local businesses.
This creates a practical model in which environmental protection, local economic activity and administrative efficiency support each other.
Citizens are rewarded for helping protect biodiversity, local businesses benefit from voucher redemption, and the municipality replaces manual paper-based processes with a digital and verifiable system.
BIDI modernizes a voucher program that has already existed in Muri bei Bern for eight years.
Instead of continuing with paper vouchers, the municipality now uses an on-chain system that can improve transparency, simplify reconciliation and make environmental contributions easier to verify.
The technology stack behind the project is also important.
Hedera provides the distributed ledger infrastructure.
Swisscoast AG supplies the payment layer through HCHF, a Swiss franc-pegged stablecoin.
@hashgraphgroup and Apps with Love developed and integrated the platform.
The initiative was supported by The Hashgraph Association through its Enterprise Accelerator Program.
The choice of
@HederaFndn fits the nature of the project.
Public-sector applications require infrastructure with low and predictable fees, fast settlement and reliable performance.
For a biodiversity initiative, sustainability is also important, and Hedera’s energy-efficient and carbon-negative network aligns well with the environmental purpose of BIDI.
At first glance, BIDI may appear to be a small local project.
In reality, it offers a useful template for how municipalities can digitize public incentives without abandoning familiar community mechanisms.
The same model could be applied to municipal vouchers, environmental incentive programs, subsidies, claims, reporting tokens and other community reward systems.
This is why the project matters beyond Muri bei Bern.
It shows how public services can use verifiable digital infrastructure in a practical and citizen-facing way.
Tokenization is no longer only a topic for banks, exchanges and financial markets.
With BIDI, it is entering municipal administration.
A Swiss municipality is replacing paper vouchers with a trusted digital system built on Hedera.
That is a quiet but meaningful step toward the tokenization of public services.
Tokenization is leaving Wall Street and entering City Hall.
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