1. Enterprise compliance is a procurement requirement
- If the purchasing process requires SOC 2, ISO certificates, data processing agreements (DPAs), and documented controls, swirlds.com does not publish those materials in the reviewed sources.
2. Production applications require stable RPC access
- Hedera documentation advises using commercial-grade relays or self-hosted relays for production rather than Hashio.
3. A single vendor with clear contractual accountability is required
- Responsibilities are split across Hedera (governance), Swirlds/Swirlds Labs/Hashgraph (engineering/product initiatives), and third-party infrastructure providers, which can complicate support and escalation.
4. Permissioned/regulated private ledger features are required by default
- If the primary requirement is a permissioned consortium chain with fine-grained privacy controls out of the box, frameworks such as Hyperledger Fabric or Corda may be more closely aligned with those needs.