Our goal is to make Hedera's HBAR widely available for people to use for development and usage of applications on the network as it grows. Click here for a message from our Co-founders: https://www.hedera.com/a-message-from-our-co-founders-why-were-limiting-exec-and-early-saft-holder-coin-release-schedules

Hedera hbar, serves two vital purposes: to secure the network against cyberattacks though Hedera’s coin-weighted, proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, and to be the fuel that incentivizes and pays for the computing resources necessary to make it all work. Read the Hbar Economics paper - a deep dive into the dual role of hbars and detailed release schedule. https://www.hedera.com/hh-whitepaper-v2.0-290819.pdf

Hedera Hashgraph is excited to share that public mainnet open access (OA) is planned for Sept 16 allowing any developer to create an account and build decentralized applications. More info here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-hashgraph-public-mainnet-open-access-planned-for-september-16th-2019