Welcome to the IOTA Foundation – January 2022

IOTA Foundation Jan 11, 2022

Alexander SpornAlexander joins the IOTA Foundation as a Senior Software Engineer (Golang) in the Protocol team. In this role, he will focus on the Hornet node implementation and on bringing further protocol upgrades to the networks.…

A Year of Transformation

IOTA Foundation Dec 31, 2021

2021 in Review, 2022 in PreviewIn 2021, IOTA underwent a radical transformation.This year, the vision behind IOTA grew from being an infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT) and the machine economy to a foundational layer on which…

IOTA Staking Start

IOTA Foundation Dec 21, 2021

May the Rewards Be With YouTL;DR: IOTA staking for the Shimmer network (SMR tokens) and the Assembly network (ASMB tokens) starts today, the 21st of December, at 3:00 pm CET with a seven-day pre-staking period. Token holders can begin…

IOTA x Shimmer x Assembly

IOTA Foundation Dec 15, 2021

A Comprehensive Overview of All Three NetworksWith the introduction of the Shimmer and Assembly networks, the IOTA ecosystem architecture has grown from one network to three. This expansion not only enlarges the opportunities each network…

PropOps tracks real estate operations on the Tangle

IOTA Foundation Dec 13, 2021

Monitoring more than $1.3 billion in assetsTL;DR: The IOTA Foundation and PropOps announce that more than $1.3 billion in real estate assets is to be monitored using the IOTA Tangle. PropOps allows for immutable audit trails, technical…

Dev Status Update – June 2021

Jakub Cech Jun 10, 2021

Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.ChrysalisIt has been over a month since we released Chrysalis…

Fetch.ai and the IOTA Foundation collaborate to offer autonomous economic agents on the Tangle

IOTA Foundation Jun 9, 2021

Fetch.ai and the IOTA Foundation are joining forces in order to offer autonomous economic agents (AEAs) on the Tangle. Since the launch of the Chrysalis upgrade and the release of the IOTA 2.0 DevNet, the Tangle is available as a reliable…

IOTA-ENSURESEC: How to make an impact in the e-commerce ecosystem

Michele Nati Jun 9, 2021

The role of DLTs and decentralised identitiesAs part of the H2020 ENSURESEC Project, a EU-funded innovation activity to strengthen the security of the e-commerce ecosystem, the IOTA Foundation and its partners have just reached the…

Newsletter #33 – IOTA Towards Full Decentralization, Internal Energy Benchmarks for IOTA, IOTA…

IOTA Foundation Jun 7, 2021

Towards Full Decentralization with IOTA 2.0We are ecstatic to announce that IOTA is making one large step forward to IOTA 2.0. After an extensive year of development, we can proudly say that IOTA is a new project with the complete…

IOTA 2.0 Research Specifications

William Sanders Jun 4, 2021

This post aims to briefly introduce the research specifications which we made available with the release of the IOTA 2.0 DevNet (Nectar). The specifications can be found here. Their purpose is to carefully explain the current state of the…

Fully decentralized IOTA 2.0 explained in under 3 minutes

William Sanders Jun 4, 2021

While IOTA 2.0 is a complex protocol with various modules, its core idea is actually quite simple. This post summarizes how IOTA 2.0 achieves consensus and maintains the ledger. Data and transactions are contained in objects called…

IOTA Native Digital Assets – DevNet Version

IOTA Foundation Jun 2, 2021

TL;DR: With today's launch of the IOTA 2.0 DevNet we have officially also released our Digital Assets framework on the DevNet. It's time to tokenize, to NFT, and to have fun sending around magical decentralized internet tokens. We built…

IOTA 2.0 DevNet (Nectar) – The Era of IOTA’s Decentralization Starts Here

IOTA Foundation Jun 2, 2021

TL;DR: Today we launch the IOTA 2.0 DevNet, the first fully decentralized IOTA network without the need of a Coordinator, together with our new Digital Assets framework. We invite everyone (and every machine) to join this network,…

IOTA Token Liquidity Now Available On Binance Smart Chain

IOTA Foundation Mar 29, 2021

In our continuing effort to build bridges between complementary blockchains, we are excited to share that wrapped IOTA is now available on Binance Smart Chain! Now, with wrapped IOTA on Binance Smart Chain, IOTA holders can use the IOTA…

IOTA Token Liquidity Now Available On Binance Smart Chain

IOTA Foundation Mar 29, 2021

In our continuing effort to build bridges between complementary blockchains, we are excited to share that wrapped IOTA is now available on Binance Smart Chain! Now, with wrapped IOTA on Binance Smart Chain, IOTA holders can use the IOTA…

Cartesi and IOTA Partner to Accelerate Smart Contract Adoption for IoT

IOTA Foundation Mar 23, 2021

With IOTA Oracles, IOTA Smart Contracts and Cartesi’s Linux based virtual machine, the two groups will bring non-blockchain based use cases and businesses into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), Gaming, NFTs, and industrial IOT.…

Cartesi and IOTA Partner to Accelerate Smart Contract Adoption for IoT

IOTA Foundation Mar 23, 2021

With IOTA Oracles, IOTA Smart Contracts and Cartesi’s Linux based virtual machine, the two groups will bring non-blockchain based use cases and businesses into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), Gaming, NFTs, and industrial IOT.…

Firefly Beta Release

IOTA Foundation Mar 22, 2021

We are proud to release the first public beta version of Firefly, our new wallet for Chrysalis. This marks an important milestone in the lead up to Chrysalis - the biggest network upgrade in the IOTA Foundation’s history - and gives the…

Firefly Beta Release

IOTA Foundation Mar 22, 2021

We are proud to release the first public beta version of Firefly, our new wallet for Chrysalis. This marks an important milestone in the lead up to Chrysalis - the biggest network upgrade in the IOTA Foundation’s history - and gives the…

IOTA Stronghold: Beta Release

IOTA Foundation Mar 19, 2021

Stronghold is an open-source software library that was originally built to protect IOTA Seeds, but can be used to protect any digital secret. It is a secure database for working with cryptography, which ensures that secrets (like private…

IOTA Stronghold: Beta Release

IOTA Foundation Mar 19, 2021

Stronghold is an open-source software library that was originally built to protect IOTA Seeds, but can be used to protect any digital secret. It is a secure database for working with cryptography, which ensures that secrets (like private…

Explaining the IOTA Congestion Control Algorithm

William Sanders Mar 19, 2021

This article explains in some technical detail the IOTA Congestion Control Algorithm (ICCA) used in the IOTA 2.0 protocol (Coordicide). We wanted to offer this overview to clarify the relationship between access and mana that was raised in…

Explaining the IOTA Congestion Control Algorithm

William Sanders Mar 19, 2021

This article explains in some technical detail the IOTA Congestion Control Algorithm (ICCA) used in the IOTA 2.0 protocol (Coordicide). We wanted to offer this overview to clarify the relationship between access and mana that was raised in…

IOTA Joins Project Funded by Japanese National R&D agency NEDO to Build AI and DLT-based…

IOTA Foundation Oct 27, 2020

We’re proud to announce that the IOTA Foundation has partnered on a project initiated by Best Materia and IMC, Japanese maintenance-related companies, and funded by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization).…

IOTA’s Community of Practice — X-Teams and Tangle EE Working Group

Antonio Nardella Oct 19, 2020

The IOTA Foundation is an open-source foundation that is developing a range of products, including the IOTA distributed ledger, Streams, Access, and Digital Identity. IOTA Foundation’s products are open source projects that are built by…

Dev Status Update — October, 2020

Jakub Cech Oct 16, 2020

Dev Status Update — October, 2020Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The research…

Final Alpha Release for IOTA Streams

IOTA Foundation Oct 15, 2020

IOTA Foundation adds IOTA Streams to its growing product portfolio; reaching new levels for data sharing, security and control on connected devices.Authors: Mathew Yarger & Jonathan ShafferThe IOTA Foundation is excited to…

Pollen Testnet v0.3.0 Release Notes

Angelo Capossele Oct 12, 2020

We are releasing a new version of our Pollen testnet: v0.3.0. As anticipated in our last Research Status Update, this release includes the full integration of the Decentralized Random Number Generator (dRNG) module! The full list of changes…

IOTA & INATBA Together To Address Social Challenges

IOTA Foundation Oct 9, 2020

TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROJECT SO WE CAN MAKE AN IMPACT TOGETHER — THE SOCIAL IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE! In the previous year, IOTA Foundation became a founding member of the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications along with…

IOTA Research Status Update — October 2020

Serguei Popov Oct 8, 2020

IOTA Research Status Update — October 2020We are happy to share the following updates from several of our groups. It has been a busy month for everyone on the team. In addition to the work described below, we’ve also been busy planning…

IOTA Newsletter #25 — IOTA Access, Chrysalis Phase 2, Pollen v0.2.4, IOTA Streams update & more…

IOTA Foundation Oct 6, 2020

IOTA Newsletter #25 — IOTA Access, Chrysalis Phase 2, Pollen v0.2.4, IOTA Streams update & moreIntroducing IOTA AccessIOTA Foundation along with initial launch partners, Jaguar Land Rover, STMicroelectronics, EDAG, RIDDLE&CODE, NTT…

IOTA Smart Contracts Pre-Alpha Released

IOTA Foundation Oct 2, 2020

A Platform for Scalable, Feeless and Flexible Smart Contracts In this article, we present our state-of-the-art implementation of the IOTA Smart Contract Protocol (ISCP), the first scalable, feeless and flexible implementation of smart…

Introducing IOTA Access

IOTA Foundation Sep 30, 2020

IOTA Foundation along with initial launch partners, Jaguar Land Rover, STMicroelectronics, EDAG, RIDDLE&CODE, NTT DATA Romania, ETO GRUPPE and BiiLabs, announces global, open-source framework for smart device access control able to…

Welcome Devin Turner to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Sep 28, 2020

Devin is joining IOTA as a Software Engineer on the Digital Identity team. In this role, Devin will focus on the design and development of a Decentralized Identity framework written in the Rust programming language.Devin lives in…

Explaining Mana in IOTA

William Sanders Sep 28, 2020

One of the topics in IOTA 2.0 that we frequently receive questions about is mana. This is an important topic, so we’re happy to explain more about the theoretical side of mana, as well as offer some insight into its implementation.Our…

Chrysalis (IOTA 1.5) Phase 2 Update And Next Steps

Jakub Cech Sep 23, 2020

IOTA 1.5 The first phase of IOTA 1.5 (also known as Chrysalis) — the mainnet’s intermediate stage before Coordicide — is complete. You can read more about the strategy for releasing Chrysalis here.The Chrysalis Phase 1 components…

Dev Status Update — September, 2020

Jakub Cech Sep 17, 2020

Dev Status Update — September, 2020Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The research department is…

IOTA Research Status Update — September 2020

Serguei Popov Sep 10, 2020

IOTA Research Status Update — September 2020With the easing of travel restrictions in Europe, our department was able to have its first summit since February. The primary purpose of this meeting was to review all the specifications which…

IOTA Newsletter #24 — Chrysalis Phase 1, Pollen v0.2.3,

IOTA Foundation Sep 7, 2020

IOTA Newsletter #24 — Chrysalis Phase 1, Pollen v0.2.3, Security Analysis Coordicide Grant Program and moreChrysalis (IOTA 1.5) Phase 1 Live on MainnetThe first phase of IOTA 1.5 (also known as Chrysalis) — the mainnet’s intermediate stage…

Pollen Testnet v0.2.4 Release Notes

Angelo Capossele Sep 3, 2020

We are releasing a new version of our Pollen testnet: v0.2.4. This update includes:Fixed race condition that was preventing the deletion of some entries from the missing messages db, even if they were actually received from the…

Coordicide Grant Report — Cellular Automata in IOTA

Andrew Greve Aug 25, 2020

Coordicide Grant Report — Cellular Automata in IOTA In May of this year, we announced a Coordicide Grant to study Cellular Automata as a potential extension to IOTA’s consensus mechanism in future versions of the protocol. Today, we are…

Chrysalis (IOTA 1.5) Phase 1 Now Live on Mainnet

IOTA Foundation Aug 19, 2020

IOTA 1.5 The first phase of IOTA 1.5 (also known as Chrysalis) — the mainnet’s intermediate stage before Coordicide — is complete. You can read more about the strategy for releasing Chrysalis here.The Chrysalis Phase 1 components…

IOTA Announces Coordicide Grant for Security Analysis, a new collaboration with the SPRITZ…

Andrew Greve Aug 14, 2020

IOTA Announces Coordicide Grant for Security Analysis, a new collaboration with SPRITZ Research Group at University of PaduaWe are thrilled to announce our latest Coordicide grant! The new collaboration, with one of the leading…

Dev Status Update — August, 2020

Jakub Cech Aug 13, 2020

Dev Status Update — August, 2020Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The research…

Pollen Testnet v0.2.3 Release Notes

Angelo Capossele Aug 11, 2020

We are releasing a new minor version of our Pollen Testnet: v0.2.3. This update includes:Fixed synchronization issue due to a bug preventing to request missing messages more than once Fixed node’s dashboard explorer crashing or not…

IOTA Newsletter #23 — Pollen Testnet v0.2.2, Stronghold, Chronicle & more

IOTA Foundation Aug 7, 2020

IOTA Newsletter #23 — Pollen Testnet v0.2.2, Stronghold, Chronicle & morePollen Testnet v0.2.2 Release NotesAs we mentioned in our first blog post on the release of Pollen, the first IOTA 2.0 Testnet, our…

IOTA Research Status Update August 2020

Serguei Popov Aug 6, 2020

The past month has been very productive for our team, as we move toward a full, formal specification of IOTA 2.0. Our team has been hard at work across the board, both on wrapping up current tasks, as well as beginning to plan for our…

IOTA 1.5 (Chrysalis phase 2) RFCs

Jakub Cech Jul 31, 2020

A list of Chrysalis phase 2 RFC pull requests. The RFCs serve as initial protocol specifications for the changes coming later this year.Please provide feedback on the RFCs, or join our Discord if you have questions.Message object…

Pollen Testnet v0.2.2 release note

IOTA Foundation Jul 27, 2020

Pollen Testnet v0.2.2 Release NotesAs we mentioned in our first blog post on the release of Pollen, the first IOTA 2.0 Testnet, our goal is to publish more consistent updates in order to iterate as fast as possible. Below please find…

IoT ONE Academy publishes IOTA courses for managers (English Version) in cooperation with IOTA…

Holger Kother Jul 20, 2020

IoT One Academy publishes IOTA courses for managers (English Version) in cooperation with IOTA FoundationToday, the IoT ONE ACADEMY has published the IOTA courses for managers in English language in close cooperation with the IOTA…

Welcome José Manuel Cantera to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jul 17, 2020

José Manuel Cantera is joining IOTA as Tech Analyst & Project Lead of the Market Adoption team. In this role, José will focus on developing innovation and collaboration projects leveraging IOTA technologies, particularly, in the area…

Dev Status Update — July, 2020

Jakub Cech Jul 16, 2020

Dev Status Update — July, 2020Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The research department…

IOTA Newsletter #22 — Introducing Pollen, Nectar & Honey, Pollen & Hornet releases,…

IOTA Foundation Jul 13, 2020

IOTA Newsletter #22 — Introducing Pollen, Nectar & Honey, Pollen & Hornet releases, UiO & Lidbot collaborations & more.Introducing Pollen: the First Decentralized Testnet for IOTA 2.0Pollen marks the beginning of the…

Chronicle: Our Full Permanode Framework for Decentralized Storage On The IOTA Network

Jake Cahill Jul 10, 2020

Last year, the IOTA Foundation released an official permanode solution for storing all IOTA transactions, forever.Throughout this time, we have been gathering your feedback and using it to build an improved version with exciting new…

IOTA Research Status Update July 2020

Serguei Popov Jul 9, 2020

This month, we were honored to release Pollen, the first testnet version of IOTA 2.0 to include Fast Probabilistic Consensus, the consensus mechanism for the post-Coordicide IOTA. Work continues on the finalization and further integration…

IOTA and the Department of Informatics at UiO, Norway’s largest university, cooperate on Research…

Wilfried Pimenta Jul 1, 2020

IOTA and the Department of Informatics at UiO, Norway’s largest university, join forces to research Digital Trust and the TangleThe IOTA Tangle is a new open-source Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) protocol designed to serve as the…

Introducing Pollen: the First Decentralized Testnet for IOTA 2.0

IOTA Foundation Jun 30, 2020

After years of intensive research, rigorous testing, and tireless efforts by our engineers, we are proud to finally be able to invite everyone to participate in this momentous milestone for the IOTA project. Pollen marks the beginning of…

IOTA 2.0: Introducing Pollen, Nectar and Honey

IOTA Foundation Jun 29, 2020

Up until now, we’ve had a lot of names and terms floating around for the eventual removal of the coordinator node:Alphanet, the name of the first prototype of our decentralized testnet.Goshimmer, the group of technologies that are…

Dev Status Update — June, 2020

Jakub Cech Jun 19, 2020

Dev Status Update — June, 2020Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The…

IOTA joins ENSURESEC

Michele Nati PhD Jun 18, 2020

IOTA is now part of the ENSURESEC consortium. What is this? And why, especially these days, is this important?Let’s start by analyzing the current situation.During the last few months of pandemic crisis and lockdown, which forced over…

IOTA Research Status Update June 2020

Serguei Popov Jun 17, 2020

We have a few exciting status updates to share with everyone this month: First, the new GoShimmer release v0.2.0 is planned for the end of June. We consider this release to be a significant milestone, as it will support value transactions…

Welcome Diego Essaya to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jun 10, 2020

Diego Essaya is joining IOTA as Senior Software Engineer of the Smart Contracts team. In this role, Diego will help in the development of the Smart Contracts Protocol running on the Wasp node.Diego lives in Buenos Aires — Argentina — …

Hornet 0.4.0 Release Summary

Jakub Cech Jun 5, 2020

After almost 5 months of development, we are happy to release Hornet version 0.4.0!Hornet is a lightweight node written in Go and co-developed with the community and IOTA Foundation. This new node software release is the first wave in…

IOTA Newsletter #21 — Chrysalis, Selv Demo, Smart Contracts & more

IOTA Foundation Jun 5, 2020

IOTA Newsletter #21 — Chrysalis, Selv Demo, Smart Contracts & more.Release Strategy for Chrysalis (IOTA 1.5)One of the IOTA Foundation’s primary roles is to define and deliver on a development roadmap…

Welcome Rafael Presa to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jun 4, 2020

Rafael Presa is joining IOTA as Market Developer Brazil of the market adoption team. In this role Rafael will focus on bringing strategic partnerships and allocating IF developers alongside local third-party resources to ensure successful…

A Guide to Upcoming IOTA 2.0 (Coordicide) Terminology

William Sanders May 29, 2020

With the Coordicide specifications nearing completion, the research department has been communicating the specifics of the new protocol to the engineering department, external researchers, and the community. This communication requires…

Selv Demo — A Digital Health Passport

Jelle Millenaar May 26, 2020

Selv Demo — A Digital Health Passport The IOTA Foundation combined forces with the world’s largest law firm Dentons in the Financial Times’ Global Legal Hackathon to “innovate solutions to the most pressing legal, regulatory, and civil…

Dev Status Update — May, 2020

Jakub Cech May 22, 2020

Dev Status Update — May, 2020Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update. You can also view our…

In the last couple of years, the IOTA Foundation started to proactively participate in…

Michele Nati PhD May 19, 2020

In the last couple of years, the IOTA Foundation started to proactively participate in collaborative research and development efforts, funded by the EU commission. The main purpose has been twofold, to enable other parties to leverage the…

Release strategy for Chrysalis (IOTA 1.5)

Jakub Cech May 15, 2020

Release Strategy for Chrysalis (IOTA 1.5)One of the IOTA Foundation’s primary roles is to define and deliver on a development roadmap that moves IOTA towards production-readiness and adoption. In a complex and ever-changing…

IOTA Research Status Update May 2020

Serguei Popov May 14, 2020

IOTA Research Status Update - May 2020The past month has been incredibly productive for us as we tie up the last few details around the Coordicide specifications. Handing over the Coordicide specifications to development will be a…

Welcome Lucas F. G. Nogueira to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation May 8, 2020

Lucas F. G. Nogueira is joining IOTA as a Software Engineer on the Engineering team. In this role, Lucas will focus on the Trinity wallet desktop development.Lucas lives in Bauru — Sao Paulo, Brazil and has been working as a…

An Introduction to IOTA Smart Contracts

Evaldas Drasutis May 6, 2020

I want to thank my colleagues in the IOTA Foundation who provided input and feedback for this article. In particular, Eric Hop, who headed the Qubic project and now joins IOTA Smart Contracts, and Jake Cahill, who is responsible for most…

ZERO defects, Digital Twins, and IOTA

Holger Kother May 6, 2020

Pickert and the IOTA Foundation jointly demonstrate the power of zero defects and digital twins for manufacturing.Supply Chain tracking is one way to demonstrate the benefits of IOTA’s ability to store information about digital assets…

IOTA Experience Teams

Antonio Nardella May 5, 2020

At the IOTA Foundation, we have always celebrated and supported the many achievements of the IOTA community. By its very nature, the health of any project in the DLT space has as much to do with those consuming the code as it does with…

IOTA Newsletter #20 — Aiming for Simple, Crypto Rating Council, Dev Update, Research Update…

IOTA Foundation May 4, 2020

Continue getting our latest updates directly in your inbox! To comply with GDPR, we ask you to simply check the latest newsletter we sent to your email and click on the link received! Aiming for SimpleThe new IOTA nodes (Hornet and…

Announcing a Coordicide Grant on Cellular Automata in IOTA

Andrew Greve May 1, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that work has now begun on a grant designed to extend IOTA’s consensus mechanism. Dr. André Vilela and Dr. Kenric Nelson will be working on the project “Majority Vote Dynamics for IOTA Transaction Consensus” as…

Dev Status Update — April, 2020

Jakub Cech Apr 24, 2020

Dev Status Update — April 2020Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The…

Scaling IOTA Part 1 — A Primer on Sharding

Hans Moog Apr 21, 2020

Scaling IOTA Part 1 - A Primer on ShardingThe following blog posts are going to introduce some of the fundamental ideas and concepts behind a new sharding solution for the IOTA Tangle. We will discuss how the proposed mechanism works…

Scaling IOTA Part 2 — Untangling the Tangle

Hans Moog Apr 21, 2020

Scaling IOTA Part 2 - Untangling the TangleTo solve the problems mentioned in the first part of this blog post, we need a completely different form of sharding.In the following sections, we will make a step-by-step introduction to the…

VR Events on Mozilla Hubs

Antonio Nardella Apr 21, 2020

On April 6th 2020 the einfachIOTA.com and IOTAshops.com from the IOTA Community organized the first VR IOTA Meetup on the Mozilla Hubs platform.This article summarizes general feedback and best practices collected through this…

IOTA Foundation Is Submitting a Project Proposal For Google Season of Docs

Jake Cahill Apr 17, 2020

Documentation is an important part of what we do at the IOTA Foundation. It not only helps our community to get involved in what we’re building, it’s essential for real-world adoption.Since we launched our documentation portal, we’ve…

IOTA Research Status Update – April 2020

Serguei Popov Apr 16, 2020

IOTA Research Status Update — April 2020We’re pleased to share the latest news from the IOTA Research department. We hope that you enjoyed the Introduction to Coordicide Specifications presentations we released recently. Below are the…

The State of Qubic and the future of Smart Contracts on IOTA

Eric Hop Apr 13, 2020

TL;DR: The IOTA Foundation has decided to shift our focus to a new Smart Contract approach derived from our previous work. IOTA Smart Contracts is a layer 2 solution building on Coordicide’s development in GoShimmer. A brief introduction…

Introduction to Coordicide Specifications

Andrew Greve Apr 10, 2020

Welcome to the Introduction to Coordicide Specifications video series — a series of 7 educational videos by our Research team first developed for internal use and now publicly shared with the IOTA Community.With most of the Coordicide…

IOTA Newsletter #19 — IOTA strategic partnership with TMEA, Dev Update, Research Update &…

IOTA Foundation Apr 6, 2020

Continue getting our latest updates directly in your inbox! To comply with GDPR, we ask you to simply check the latest newsletter we sent to your email and click on the link received! IOTA & TMEA partner up to improve infrastructure…

IOTA Receives Crypto Ratings Council Rating

Dan Simerman Apr 2, 2020

We are excited to announce that the Crypto Ratings Council has formally issued its rating for the IOTA token. Today the Crypto Rating Council is publishing three new asset scores and updating two existing scores. Learn more here:…

IOTA Streams alpha

Jakub Cech Apr 2, 2020

We have been working on a new and vastly improved version of MAM (Masked Authenticated Messaging) for a couple of months now. Today, we are releasing an alpha implementation. Together with the release, and as described in this post, we…

Aiming for Simple

Navin Ramachandran Apr 2, 2020

The new IOTA nodes (Hornet and Bee) and the Chrysalis protocol upgrade promise a significant step-change in the utility of the IOTA network. This will make it easier and cheaper to run nodes, and to transact on the network. So this is…

Welcome Bernardo A. Rodrigues to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Mar 31, 2020

Bernardo A. Rodrigues is joining IOTA as an Embedded Software Engineer of the Engineering team. In this role, Bernardo will focus on Embedded Software Development and System Integration for IOTA related projects.Bernardo was born in…

Welcome Bill Acha to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Mar 27, 2020

Bill Acha is joining IOTA as a software engineer of the IRI team. In this role, Bill will focus on maintaining IRI and developing new features for a better IOTA node.Bill lives in Douala, Cameroon and has been in the technology sector…

Dev Status Update — March, 2020

Jakub Cech Mar 20, 2020

Dev Status Update — March, 2020Published by the IOTA engineering team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The IOTA…

IOTA Foundation and TradeMark East Africa partner up to improve infrastructure and trade through…

Jens Lund-Nielsen Mar 12, 2020

A strategic partnershipTradeMark East Africa (TMEA) is one of the most respected organizations in the region and well-known globally for its work on improving livelihoods through improved trade conditions. TMEA’s track record is…

IOTA Newsletter #18 — Trinity, Tangle EE, Coordicide Alphanet Release & Chrysalis

IOTA Foundation Mar 11, 2020

Are you already subscribed? Continue getting our latest updates directly in your inbox! To comply with GDPR, we ask you to simply check the latest newsletter we sent to your email and click on the link received! Trinity Incident…

Protecting User Tokens and Rebooting the Coordinator

IOTA Foundation Mar 10, 2020

Event Summary On February 12, 2020 the Trinity wallet was attacked via a third-party dependency from Moonpay, which resulted in the theft of around 8.55 Ti in IOTA tokens from a total of 50 user accounts. On the same day, the Coordinator…

Seed Migration Tool Now Available

IOTA Foundation Feb 29, 2020

Trinity Seed Migration Tool Now AvailableIf you used Trinity from December 17, 2019 to February 17, 2020, your tokens might be at risk and you need to take action to prevent theft.Summary: Trinity is a software wallet for the IOTA…

Welcome Daniel Thompson-Yvetot to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Feb 27, 2020

Daniel is joining IOTA as a Senior Architect in the Engineering team. In this role, Daniel will focus on hardening the security posture of the IOTA ecosystem and designing the next generation of wallets.Daniel lives in Normandy,…

Trinity Attack Incident Part 3: Key Learnings & Takeaways

IOTA Foundation Feb 21, 2020

Summary: Trinity is a software wallet for the IOTA digital asset that has been developed for desktop and mobile operating systems. Managed by the IOTA Foundation, this open-source software project enables the user to manage their tokens…

Trinity Attack Incident Part 2: Trinity Seed Migration Plan

IOTA Foundation Feb 21, 2020

Summary: Trinity is a software wallet for the IOTA digital asset that has been developed for desktop and mobile operating systems. Managed by the IOTA Foundation, this open-source software project enables the user to manage their tokens…

Trinity Attack Incident Part 1: Summary and next steps

IOTA Foundation Feb 21, 2020

Summary: Trinity is a software wallet for the IOTA digital asset that has been developed for desktop and mobile operating systems. Managed by the IOTA Foundation, this open-source software project enables the user to manage their tokens…

Investigating stolen funds on Mainnet

IOTA Foundation Feb 13, 2020

Stay updated here: https://status.iota.org/Status historyFebruary 19th 2020 - 15:14 PLEASE REGULARLY CHECK BACK HERE: ALL TRINITY USERS’ ACTION WILL BE REQUIRED SOON TO PROTECT YOUR TOKENS.A short update about the current…

MIM Status Update

Lewis Freiberg Feb 13, 2020

Lewis Freiberg on Discord: Yesterday we received several reports about missing balances from wallets. After the initial triaging and investigation, we found first signs of a coordinated attack, primarily targeting 40 GI+ accounts, either…

The Road to Integration: Part 2 — Application Development

Michele Nati PhD Feb 12, 2020

If you have read our previous article, you now understand how IOTA technology can suit your needs and which IOTA building blocks are available for you.The next step is to build your IOTA-powered solution.Remember that we are always…

The IOTA and Eclipse Foundations Launch Tangle EE Working Group to Accelerate Commercial Adoption…

IOTA Foundation Feb 11, 2020

The IOTA and Eclipse Foundations Launch Tangle EE Working Group to Accelerate Commercial Adoption of IOTATogether with the Eclipse Foundation, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Tangle EE Working Group. Tangle EE unites a…

Trondheim city and IOTA gears up its smart city development towards Sustainable Development Goals

Wilfried Pimenta Feb 5, 2020

Trondheim city and IOTA gear up its smart city development towards Sustainable Development GoalsToday, the municipality of Trondheim enters into deeper cooperation with the IOTA Foundation and eight other companies to tackle sustainable…

Coordicide alphanet out now

Jakub Cech Feb 3, 2020

We are excited to release version 0.1.0 of our Coordicide alphanet. The alphanet was initially planned to be released on our Rust-based node (Bee) in Q2. However given the success of the Hornet team and their close cooperation with the…

Chrysalis

David Sonstebo Feb 3, 2020

Chrysalis (Path towards IOTA 1.5)Significant progress has been made on fundamental Coordicide research and its implementation in GoShimmer. You may have noticed that some coordicide modules are already in the process of being added to…

Getting started: the road to integration Part 1

Michele Nati PhD Jan 22, 2020

Getting started Like many others in the data-driven innovation arena, you may have started to grasp the value of decentralization already. You know that data shouldn’t remain trapped in silos, with the custodians of these silos being the…

Untangled Episode #19: STMicroelectronics

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Jan 22, 2020

In the nineteenth episode of Untangled, we are talking to Fabrizio Rovati, SW Platforms & Cloud Director from STMicroelectronics, also just known as ST.ST and IOTA have been partners since summer 2019 and are especially focusing…

Trinity Desktop 1.3.0 RC2 Trinity Mobile 1.2.3 Release

Charlie Varley Jan 22, 2020

Trinity Desktop 1.3.0 RC2 We have just released Trinity Desktop 1.3.0 RC2. This is the second release candidate for Spent Address Recovery. Download it here: https://github.com/iotaledger/trinity-wallet/releases/tag/desktop-1.3.0-RC2…

Welcome Sebastian Müller to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jan 20, 2020

Sebastian Müller is joining the IOTA Research team as an independent researcher. In this role, he will study the impact of randomness in various parts of the IOTA protocol. At the moment he is a professor at the department of mathematics,…

IOTA Releases Updated Coordicide Whitepaper

Andrew Greve Jan 20, 2020

Today we are releasing the updated version of our Coordicide Whitepaper. We are pleased to share this update with everyone, not only so you can remain abreast of our latest developments, but also so you can offer your thoughts and feedback.…

Dev Status Update — January, 2020

Jakub Cech Jan 16, 2020

Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update.The whole engineering team is back after the Holidays…

Trinity Desktop 1.3.0 Release

Charlie Varley Jan 14, 2020

We have just published a release candidate for Trinity Desktop 1.3.0. This build contains a Spent Address Recovery tool.Why do we need a Spent Address Recovery tool?IOTA's one time signatures mean that it is unsafe to spend from an…

IOTA Research Status Update

Serguei Popov Jan 10, 2020

January 2020The start of a new year is a moment to reflect on the past and look to the future ahead of us. It is the moment when we assess our challenges and opportunities and continue to chart a path forward. In this second installment…

Untangled Episode #18: Supply Chain: Food Safety & Retail Transparency

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Jan 7, 2020

As we heard in the Global Trade & Supply Chain episode of Untangled a few weeks back, supply chains are complex systems that currently lack transparency.Increasing supply chain transparency is a tricky task and exposing this…

Welcome Cristian Dascalu to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jan 6, 2020

Cristian is joining IOTA as Senior System Operations Engineer. In this role, he will collaborate with IOTA core developers and management to ensure the reliable operation of software and systems.Cristian is Romanian and has been in love… IOTA Reddit

Year in review, year in preview

David Sonstebo Dec 31, 2019

As we celebrate our planet’s latest journey around the sun, it’s once again time to glance in the rearview mirror and contemplate how far we’ve come, before turning our heads towards the grand journey ahead.It’s impossible to capture…

IOTA Newsletter #17–2020 Roadmap, Unified Identity Protocol, Hyperledger Integration &…

IOTA Foundation Dec 30, 2019

End of Year Dev Update & Roadmap for 20202019 has been a very exciting year for our engineering department. We were able to make significant progress with our software offering, for example with IRI, Trinity, individual client…

Incident summary — Mainnet 29/12/2019

Jakub Cech Dec 30, 2019

This post serves as a summary of the IOTA Mainnet incident that occurred on December 29, 2019. Incident summary The incident occurred at 2:50 AM UTC on December 29, and was fully resolved by 2:50 AM UTC on December 30. It resulted in the…

Welcome Tara Merk to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Dec 20, 2019

Tara is joining IOTA as Junior Business Development Analyst. In this role, she will support various business development activities and focus on driving IOTA’s adoption through strategic analysis of the DLT and IoT space.Tara relocated…

Safety of the Tangle: Berserk detection in the FPC

Bartosz Kusmierz Dec 20, 2019

The beginning of the English Wikipedia page on Berserker states In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English word…

Untangled Episode #17: EDAG Citybot & Smart Parking

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Dec 19, 2019

In the third episode of the second season of Untangled we are back in the realm of futuristic mobility solutions.EDAG is a German company operating on a global scale with offices all around the world and one of the world’s largest…

Announcing Spark: A Web-Based Low-Security Burner Wallet

Rihards Gravis Dec 19, 2019

The team behind Trinity is today announcing a new wallet, Spark. Spark is a low-security, temporary web wallet, or “burner wallet”. The concept of a burner wallet was first established by Austin Griffith of the Ethereum ecosystem. The idea…

End of Year Dev Update — Roadmap for 2020

Jakub Cech Dec 18, 2019

The short term future of IOTA engineering — what to expect in 2020 2019 has been a very exciting year for our engineering department. We were able to make significant progress with our software offering, for example with IRI, Trinity,…

Purchase IOTA Directly from Trinity with Moonpay

Dan Simerman Dec 18, 2019

We mentioned in a previous post that we’re working to expand the different ways that people and organizations can engage with the IOTA ecosystem. This requires expanding IOTA’s financial infrastructure to include new participants and other…

Introducing Hornet — a lightweight IOTA node

Jakub Cech Dec 17, 2019

The IOTA Foundation understands the need to fundamentally reshape the requirements of our software ecosystem to attend to the demand for the adoption of our technology. Partners and established companies from different industries expect a…

Welcome Pinar Palavar to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Dec 12, 2019

Pinar Palavar is joining IOTA as a Team Administrator of the Social Impact & Regulatory affairs team. In this role, she will focus on administration and support for the team and its Director, Julie Maupin.Pinar is a Berliner and…

Using the Tangle for smart agriculture: The IOTA Foundation teams up with Future Farm consortium in …

Jens Lund-Nielsen Dec 10, 2019

Tracking the farmer’s round bales is important for the climate and the economy (see demo): https://future-farm.iota.orgEvery project has its surprises. Working with the dairy sector in Norway is no different. The fundamental principle…

Welcome Krzysztof Taraszka to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Dec 9, 2019

Krzysztof Taraszka is joining IOTA as Senior System Operations Engineer of the Engineering team. In this role, Krzysztof will focus on keeping IOTA systems up and running. Krzysztof lives in Cracow, Poland and has been in the technology…

Welcome Richard Janis Goldschmidt to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Dec 6, 2019

Janis is joining IOTA as Senior Software Engineer of the Engineering team. In this role, he will help with general Rust adoption within the IOTA Foundation and lead the team working on the Bee project jointly with Thibault Martinez. Janis…

IOTA Research Status Update December 2019

Serguei Popov Dec 6, 2019

The monthly IOTA Research Status Update will contain news and updates about our major projects.This month’s update is about the status of our major task, Coordicide.Our team is split into several subgroups, each of which is focused…

Welcome Alex Westerhof to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Dec 3, 2019

Alex Westerhof is joining the IOTA Foundation as Partner Manager. In this role, he will focus on managing IOTA’s corporate partnerships, as well as support with overall partner strategy and activation planning.Alex lives in Deventer,…

Untangled Episode #16: Global Trade & Supply Chain

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Dec 3, 2019

5% of the global GDP is at stake, but regulatory and procedural challenges remain. Global Trade & Supply Chain is expected to go through monumental changes with the help of distributed ledger technologies and other emerging…

Welcome Aleksa Krstić to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Dec 2, 2019

Aleksa Krstić is joining IOTA as a Graphic Designer. In this role, Aleksa will focus on improving IOTA’s awareness through high-impact text and images.Aleksa lives in Belgrade, Serbia and has been in the technology sector for five…

EDAG CityBot and IOTA — The Future of Mobility

Jan Pauseback Nov 29, 2019

November 2019EDAG presented the CityBot concept vehicle at the International Motor Show 2019. Modularity and maximum flexibility allow it to be used for a wide variety of tasks. The CityBot is an autonomous vehicle that never…

The First Step Towards a Unified Identity Protocol

Jelle Millenaar Nov 28, 2019

We are excited to commit to our development of Digital Identity on IOTA. The Unified Identity Protocol is a Digital Identity implementation built on the Tangle. It establishes the foundation for trusted interactions and truly enables the…

Welcome Janis Vegis to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Nov 27, 2019

Janis Vegis is joining IOTA as a UX designer of the Communications team.Janis lives in Riga, Latvia and has been in the technology sector for ten years. His main skills include user research, UX and service and product design and…

Welcome Alexander Schmidt to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Nov 26, 2019

Alexander Schmidt is joining IOTA as a Software Engineer on the Bee development team. In this role, Alexander will focus on creating components for the new Bee node framework written in the Rust programming language.Alexander lives in…

Integrate Hyperledger Fabric with the IOTA Tangle

Alexey Sobolev Nov 26, 2019

Previously, when we joined the Linux Foundation to work on LF Edge and move Towards Open Collaboration we announced that we have been working on an internal Hyperledger Bridge for quite some time.We have seen that Hyperledger and the…

Co-Creating Impact With IOTA and EIT Climate KIC

Florian Doebler Nov 26, 2019

A couple of months ago, we shared our participation in the Climate KIC Deep Demonstration on Long Termism with our community. The motivating idea behind the project on Long Terms is that we, as humans, often make decisions on the basis of…

Simulation study of FPC

Sebastian Mueller Nov 22, 2019

The IOTA Research Department recently published the Fast Probabilistic Consensus Simulator.Today, we are excited to share with you the corresponding research paper on arxiv that studies various properties of the FPC. We invite you to…

Dev status update — November, 2019

Jakub Cech Nov 21, 2019

Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the previous status update. Bee Last month, the Bee team met in Berlin to get some…

Welcome Joshua Barretto to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Nov 20, 2019

Joshua is joining IOTA as Software Developer of the Bee team. In this role, he will focus on developing and maintaining the Bee codebase and associated IOTA infrastructure in Rust. Joshua lives in Bristol, UK and has been writing software…

Untangled Podcast is back — Episode #15: Smart Wallets & Future of Mobility

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Nov 19, 2019

The Untangled podcast returns for a brand new season. The second season will continue to focus on the use cases and ecosystem around IOTA’s technology, the Tangle, as well as more general perspectives around Internet of Things (IoT) and the…

Welcome Jakub Cech to the IOTA Executive Team

IOTA Foundation Nov 19, 2019

Jakub Cech joined the IOTA Foundation in May 2018 as Product Owner. With his background in learning algorithms, distributed systems programming, programming for parallel computing platforms, cloud microservices, and product management,…

IOTA Newsletter #16 — Dell Collaboration & Coordicide, Hub & Development Updates

IOTA Foundation Nov 15, 2019

IOTA, Dell Technologies, and the Linux Foundation team up for Project AlvariumProject Alvarium represents a milestone for open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data. Learn…

Introducing IOTA.cafe: A Public Research Forum

Andrew Greve Nov 15, 2019

With the development and maturity of our technology, we noticed the need to have a forum in which everybody can follow and participate in IOTA’s research efforts.That’s why we are excited to announce the launch of IOTA.cafe, our open…

Welcome Yu-Wei Wu to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Nov 12, 2019

Yu-Wei Wu joins IOTA as a Software Engineer on the Entangled and Bee teams. He was previously working on bringing Distributed Ledger Technology as Decentralized Identifiers solution with GDPR and W3C compliance. He holds a Bachelor's degree…

A new “consensus”: The Tangle Multiverse [Part 2]

Hans Moog Nov 12, 2019

In the first part of this series of blog posts, I have described the fundamental ideas and concepts behind this new approach but all of the descriptions have been pretty philosophical and the descriptions rather vague. I now want to use the…

A new “consensus”: The Tangle Multiverse [Part 1]

Hans Moog Nov 11, 2019

I have long thought of a way to properly present and explain the ideas behind this new approach to a broader audience. I first thought about doing it in a video to explain all the reasoning behind it but a video would maybe not be concise…

Identities and Sybil protection in IOTA

Luigi Vigneri Nov 8, 2019

Shirley Ardell Mason, also known as Sybil Dorsett, was an American artist.And a sophisticated young French girl.And a nameless perpetual teenager.And a talented musician.And an emotional writer.And a male carpenter.…

Welcome Vlad Semenov to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Nov 5, 2019

Vlad Semenov is joining IOTA as a software engineer of the entangled team. In this role, he will focus on improving MAM and making it a fully-fledged solution based on DLT.Vlad lives in Minsk, Belarus and has been in the technology…

IOTA is now available on Binance.US

Binance Oct 22, 2019

IOTA is now available on Binance.US. Trading for IOTA/USD trading pairs opened on October 22nd, 2019, at 9:00pm EST / 6:00pm PST. is a fast and efficient marketplace providing access and trading across a diverse selection of

Ledger Nano X — To The Moon Limited Edition

Ledger Oct 3, 2019

To celebrate 5 years of crypto security innovation, Ledger is thrilled to announce and share with their community, the To The Moon edition.5 years ago, Ledger built one of the most secure solutions for the crypto…

Welcome Navin Ramachandran to the IOTA Foundation Board of Directors

IOTA Foundation Nov 4, 2019

Dr. Navin Ramachandran has been a member of the IOTA Foundation since the end of 2016. As a practicing medical doctor and healthcare researcher, Navin took the lead of IOTA’s eHealth-focused activities, publishing on the use of the IOTA MAM…

A week in the life of an IOTA Research Intern III

Andrew Cullen Nov 4, 2019

In the first and second blog posts of this series “A week in the life of an IOTA Research Intern”, I gave you an overview of how I got involved with IOTA, how the foundation works day-to-day, and gave you a brief technical background on my…

Hub Update: Easily Integrate IOTA With Your Exchange, Custody Solution, Or Product

Dan Simerman Oct 29, 2019

Even though we are building IOTA for a world where machines can communicate seamlessly with one another, it is incredibly important that we take a step back to make sure that the usability of our technology suits the needs of the humans who…

IOTA, Dell Technologies, and the Linux Foundation team up for Data Confidence Fabrics

Mathew Yarger Oct 28, 2019

IOTA, Dell Technologies, and the Linux Foundation team up for Project AlvariumIn our initial Towards Open Collaboration announcement, we discussed our new collaboration with the Linux Foundation under their LF Edge platform. We are…

Coordicide update — Autopeering: Part 2

Olivia Saa Oct 25, 2019

Introduction In the last blog post, we shared with you the IOTA Research Team’s simulator of the current autopeering model, along with some early results. In this second part of the series, we aim to give you a clear overview of the…

Connecting an IoT Device to I3 and IOTA

Nelson Oct 23, 2019

Contributors: “Nelson” Nelson, Gowri Ramachandran, Kurian KaryakulamThe first article in this series introduced IoT, I3 and IOTA. This article explains the details of buying and selling data on the I3 Marketplace. By design, the I3…

Towards Open Collaboration: FIWARE and IOTA join forces for a Smart Digital Future

Mathew Yarger Oct 23, 2019

Recently, we announced that we at the IOTA Foundation are making new strides Toward Open Collaboration. As a part of this effort, we are relinquishing the development silo that we have built to enable cohesive contributions into external…

IOTA/+CityxChange, community Update

Duncan Main Oct 22, 2019

On 6 July 2018, the +CityxChange proposal was formally accepted by the European Commission to become a new smart city lighthouse project, under the EU Horizon 2020 “Smart Cities and Communities” topic. The project was awarded after a…

Dev status update — October, 2019

Jakub Cech Oct 17, 2019

Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update. Bee Bee will be using Request for Comments (RFC), an…

IOTA Newsletter #15 — Chronicle Permanode Solution, Industry Markerplace & Linux…

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Oct 14, 2019

Introducing Chronicle — A Permanode SolutionChronicle is the IOTA Foundation’s official permanode solution. It makes it easy for node owners to store all IOTA transactions in a fast, secure, scalable, and distributed database.Read…

Coordicide update — Autopeering: Part 1

Angelo Capossele Oct 11, 2019

The Autopeering Module A few months ago, we opened up the source code of GoShimmer, IOTA’s prototype and research tool to experiment and test the building blocks of Coordicide. We are thrilled to see such a big and productive engagement…

Welcome Virginie Pera to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Oct 8, 2019

Virginie Pera is joining IOTA as HR Administrator of the Human Resources team. In this role, she will be responsible for the administrative staff of the IOTA Foundation.Virginie Pera was born and grew up in Berlin. She started her…

How to get started with the IOTA Industry Marketplace: A Step-by-Step Guide

Lisa Schneider Oct 2, 2019

We recently launched the Industry Marketplace: a vendor and industry-neutral platform developed by IOTA and world-leading innovators. This blog post is for anyone who wants to contribute to the Industry Marketplace by setting up an instance…

A week in the life of an IOTA Research Intern II

Andrew Cullen Oct 2, 2019

In the first blog post of the series “A week in the life of an IOTA Research Intern,” I told you how I got involved with the IOTA Foundation and described my first week working with the IOTA team. In this second edition, I will give a quick…

IOTA and Zühlke Partner up to Accelerate Machine-as-a-Service Solutions

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Oct 1, 2019

Purchasing manufacturing machinery and other industrial equipment usually take a heavy toll on the company bankroll. By offering the costly equipment on an automated pay-per-use basis, this headache will soon be alleviated.As IOTA…

One Step Closer to Coordicide: IOTA Releases Fast Probabilistic Consensus Simulator

Andreas Penzkofer Sep 27, 2019

In a previous blogpost, the IOTA Research Department, with the collaboration of one of our research grant recipients, Dr. Sebastian Mueller, published simulation results of the FPC protocol, short for Fast Probabilistic Consensus, which was…

Co-Creating Impact: The IOTA Foundation joins forces with EIT Climate KIC

Florian Doebler Sep 27, 2019

The loss of ecosystems and climate change threaten human well-being and biodiversity alike. Grassroots movements, as well as international institutions, call for urgent systemic change. As a non-profit foundation focused on the positive…

Welcome Levente Pap to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Sep 26, 2019

Levente Pap is joining IOTA as a Software Engineer of the Engineering team. In this role, he will focus on developing different parts of IOTA technology.Levente lives in Berlin, Germany and has always been thrilled by creating systems…

Welcome Jelle Millenaar to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Sep 25, 2019

Jelle Millenaar is joining the IOTA Foundation as a Software Engineer, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He will focus on the development and positioning of Digital Identity and increase our presence in the Netherlands. Due to his broad…

Welcome Antonio Nardella to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Sep 25, 2019

Antonio Nardella is joining IOTA as a Community Manager.Antonio Nardella lives in Bolzano, Italy and has been in IT for over twenty years. He is a tech-consultant, technology-minded, creator with a focus on practical solutions. He is…

IOTA presents at the 2nd International Conference on Blockchain, Identity & Cryptography

Andrew Greve Sep 25, 2019

We are excited to share that Professor Serguei Popov, Professor Bill Buchanan and Dr. Moody Alam — all members of the IOTA Research Council — recently attended and presented at the 2nd International Conference on Blockchain, Identity, and…

Intro to IoT, I3, & IOTA

Nelson Sep 24, 2019

This is the first in a series of articles about programming for the Internet of Things, marketplaces for data, and distributed ledger technology for mobility and smart city apps.Pronounced “i-three”, the I3 Consortium is a group of…

Towards Open Collaboration: The Linux Foundation and IOTA Foundation join forces through LF Edge

Mathew Yarger Sep 23, 2019

At the IOTA Foundation, we’ve always done things a bit differently. Many like to think that while our industry mostly took a left, we instead took a hard right. Embracing new architectures, rapid development, rapid research, and an internal…

Winners of the IOTA Machine Money contest on Hackster.io

Lewis Freiberg Sep 23, 2019

We are proud to announce the winners of the Machine Money contest on Hackster.io. The contest was focused on combining the value transfer element of the IOTA protocol with hardware solutions. We were impressed with the level of skill the…

IOTA Foundation launches Industry Marketplace, the World’s First Autonomous and Decentralized…

Holger Kother Sep 19, 2019

The Industry Marketplace, Leveraging IOTA’s Distributed Ledger Technology, will enable increased Interconnectivity between Humans, Machines, and Machine Readable Contracts.Visit the Industry Marketplace here.The IOTA Foundation is…

Welcome Daniel Elsawey to IOTA Foundation!

IOTA Foundation Sep 18, 2019

Daniel Elsawey is joining the IOTA Foundation as a member of the Advisory Board. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer of a stealth Digital Asset start-up focused on Institutional access. He has over 10 years of experience in…

Dev status update — September, 2019

Edward Greve Sep 18, 2019

Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects!Last month we started a new format for the dev update and our regular readers noticed the difference right away. We’re…

Introducing Chronicle — A Permanode Solution

IOTA Foundation Sep 17, 2019

The IOTA protocol is a permissionless trust layer for the Internet of Things which enables a frictionless exchange of value between machines and humans. Anyone can secure data on the Tangle and make it verifiable to third parties for free.…

IOTA Newsletter #14 — Smart City Energy Tracking, ESP32 Wallet & Consensus in the Tangle

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Sep 17, 2019

IOTA showcases sustainable energy traceability at Powerhouse Energy Positive BuildingTraceable, renewable energy seamlessly being tracked locally in real time between buildings, infrastructure, and consumers is already being tested in a…

Welcome Clint Walker to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Sep 11, 2019

Clint Walker is joining the Supervisory Board of the IOTA Foundation. In this role, along with Richard Soley, Clint will be responsible for the general oversight and guidance of the IOTA Foundation.Clint lives in Wilmington, Delaware in…

A week in the life of an IOTA Research Intern

Andrew Cullen Sep 10, 2019

Over the next two months, I will be writing about my experience as a Research Intern at the IOTA Foundation (IF).I applied for the role after working for several months on attack analysis of the pre-Coordicide Tangle and tip selection…

Welcome Jon Crowcroft to the IOTA Research Council!

IOTA Foundation Sep 9, 2019

Professor Jon Crowcroft is one of the most internationally recognized researchers in distributed computing. His seminal works have often changed the course of this field. He is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer…

Welcome Brian Marcel to IOTA Foundation!

IOTA Foundation Sep 6, 2019

Brian Marcel has over 40 years of hands-on, high-level, senior corporate and entrepreneurial experience. He got involved in the early days of barcoding and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he set up Joint Ventures in five former…

Trinity Mobile 1.1.0 – Important Information

Charlie Varley Sep 3, 2019

We have just released Trinity Mobile 1.1.0 under the new Trinity Mobile testing environment. For release candidate (beta) versions, a separate app will be installed instead of overwriting your main Trinity version’s data. When we are…

IOTA showcases sustainable energy traceability at Powerhouse Energy Positive Building

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Aug 30, 2019

Traceable, renewable energy seamlessly being tracked locally in real time between buildings, infrastructure, and consumers is already being tested in a real-world environment.The Powerhouse building in Trondheim, the world’s…

Consensus in the IOTA Tangle — FPC

Sebastian Mueller Aug 20, 2019

This is the first in a series of posts that explain the consensus protocols described in IOTA Coordicide.The main objective of this series is to keep the community updated on recent research results and also to explain interesting…

IOTA ESP32 Wallet

Sam Chen Aug 17, 2019

Now that CClient v1.0.0-beta is released, IOTA can implement a hardware wallet based on it. I will, in this blogpost, briefly explain the architecture of the IOTA Wallet on ESP32 and I will demonstrate the wallet application.…

Welcome Thabata Dias to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Aug 16, 2019

Thabata Dias is joining IOTA Foundation as a Social Media Manager. In this role, she will focus on helping IOTA to grow its social media channels, such as LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube. She will also be an evangelist for IOTA’s mission…

IOTA Newsletter #13 — $5 Million Coordicide Grants, STMicroelectronics Partnership &…

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Aug 15, 2019

IOTA Announces $5 Million in Grants for Coordicide-related ResearchCoordicide is the top priority for the IOTA Foundation. Now academia and other research organizations can receive grants to further the adoption of the technology and…

Learning by example: IOTA Workshops

Dave de Fijter Aug 13, 2019

IOTA introduces a lot of new concepts, such as the Tangle and Trinary, which may seem difficult to use. That’s why we have some excellent client libraries that abstract most of the concepts into easy-to-use functions.To help you start…

IOTA Launches Coordicide Grant Applications

Andrew Greve Aug 9, 2019

We recently announced our $5 million grant program for Coordicide-related research, which you can read about here.Today, we are proud to launch an update to our Coordicide website and the opening of our application for grants! The…

Welcome Jonathan Shaffer to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Aug 8, 2019

Jonathan Shaffer joins IOTA as a Senior Electrical Engineer, based out of Atlanta, Georgia, with expertise in programmable logic devices, digital signal processing, and hardware design. He brings with him an extensive background in avionics…

The 5th Cohort of IOTA Ecosystem Development Fund Grantees

Mark Schmidt Aug 7, 2019

Over the last few months, we’ve worked very hard to improve the IOTA Ecosystem Development Fund and to make sure we use the funds in the best way possible to benefit the whole Ecosystem.Today, the IOTA Ecosystem team is very happy to…

Dev status update, August 2019

Edward Greve Aug 7, 2019

As we mentioned last time, the monthly update has become less Qubic-specific as we’ve recognized the need for more information about different projects, not only Qubic. With that in mind, we’ll be trying out this new format and including…

Welcome Begoña Alvarez to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Aug 7, 2019

Begoña Alvarez is a software developer with experience in high-end industrial applications and web services, and a passion for user experience. She holds a Telecommunications Engineering (Electrical+IT) Master’s degree from UPM, Spain. She…

The Next Steps for Trinity

Charlie Varley Aug 5, 2019

What’s next for Trinity? It’s a nice feeling to be able to write an update on the progress of Trinity with the wallet now available on app stores and released to 1.0.0. Many hours of work went into this project and it has culminated in an…

IOTA-powered Telco Asset Marketplace: Architecture overview (Part 2)

Michele Nati PhD Jul 26, 2019

After reading the first and more business-oriented part of our blogpost, this second part will guide through the technical implementation of our Telco Asset Marketplace and show how it works in practice.A multi-sided marketplace can…

Introducing the IOTA-powered Telco Asset Marketplace (Part 1)

Michele Nati PhD Jul 26, 2019

New business models: how to reduce Telco infrastructure costs and accelerate mobile services deployment Back in May, the IOTA team attended the TMForum Digital Transformation World event in Nice. The event was organized by the TMForum, a…

Sergey Ivancheglo departs from the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Jul 26, 2019

Sergey Ivancheglo, better known as Come-from-Beyond/CFB had planned his resignation from the IOTA Foundation when the Alpha and Omega engineering teams were to be merged at the end of June. As planned Sergey submitted his resignation letter…

IOTA Announces $5 million in Grants for Coordicide-Related Research

Andrew Greve Jul 25, 2019

We are delighted to offer the community $5 million in funds to contribute towards Coordicide-related research.Since we announced our path to Coordicide, our focus has been on researching the best way to implement it. Some of our…

Welcome Dieter Kondek to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jul 24, 2019

Dieter Kondek is joining IOTA Foundation as a member of the Advisory Board. He is a General Partner and Managing Director of Global Blockchain Ventures, LLC. He has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, startup investor and senior…

Open Sourcing of the GoShimmer Prototype

Andreas Penzkofer Jul 24, 2019

Open Sourcing of the GoShimmer PrototypeAt IOTA we strongly support the decentralized and transparent nature of DLTs. Not only within the technology we develop, but also within our own Foundation. Most of us work remotely from all over…

IOTA Links with STMicroelectronics to Accelerate IoT Technology Integration

Cara Harbor Jul 23, 2019

BERLIN, GERMANY (July 23, 2019) — The IOTA Foundation, a not-for-profit organization delivering the world’s first scalable, feeless and fully-decentralized distributed ledger technology, is working with STMicroelectronics, a global…

Introducing IOTA Insights

Dan Simerman Jul 22, 2019

As IOTA grows into an international organization and technical standard, it’s important that the world inside and outside of the blockchain industry understand the IOTA story, what we are focused on, and how we plan to evolve in the coming…

Coordicide: The Road Ahead

Edward Greve Jul 22, 2019

With the help of our vibrant community and industry partners working towards real-world adoption, the IOTA project has come a long way in the past three years. While the Coordinator has been an essential component thus far for securing the…

IOTA Newsletter #12 — Trinity Wallet Release, Tracking Food Allergens, Azimuth & more

Mark Schmidt Jul 18, 2019

IOTA Foundation releases the Trinity WalletThe IOTA Foundation is proud to announce the full release of the Trinity wallet on all major mobile and desktop platforms. Check out the new features and slick design in the video below. Read …

IOTA Summer Summit 2019

IOTA Foundation Jul 16, 2019

For the second time in history, the entire IOTA Foundation gathered for the annual IOTA Summer Summit.Under the searing German sun, the IOTA team gathered on the coast of the Baltic Sea to evaluate the last year’s efforts, plan and…

Welcome Louay Kamel to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jul 15, 2019

Louay Kamel joins IOTA as a Software Engineer on the permanode team. In this role, Louay will focus on implementing a permanode utilising another of his recent projects: OverDB (a scalable distributed graph / multi-model database engine…

Welcome Evaldas Drąsutis to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jul 15, 2019

Evaldas Drąsutis lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. He started programming at age 16, by coding 2nd generation soviet computers at the hardware level with octal code and punch tapes. Since then Evaldas has held a variety of software-related…

Welcome Dr. Bing-Yang Lin to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jul 12, 2019

Dr. Bing-Yang Lin joins The IOTA Foundation as a Senior Software Engineer.Dr. Bing-Yang Lin lives in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and has almost 10 years of programming and research experience. Before joining IOTA, Bing-Yan worked for the Taiwan…

Empowering Machines with Wallets: 2nd IOTA Development Contest on Hackster.io

Lewis Freiberg Jul 11, 2019

Today we are announcing our second IOTA development contest focused around machines with wallets. The contest has thousands of dollars worth of prizes up for grabs, including a drone, VR headset and 3D printer. We want developers to flex…

IRI 1.8.0 with networking rewrite

Jakub Cech Jul 10, 2019

The IRI team has been hard at work the past couple months on increasing the stability of the software, and making it better prepared to accommodate the growth in adoption of IOTA. The previous release, IRI 1.7.1, brought multiple fixes that…

Welcome Duncan Main to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jul 5, 2019

Duncan is joining IOTA as a Junior Project Manager within the Projects and Partners team. In this role, he will focus on the formal aspects of project management while engaging with our partners and making sure projects run smoothly from…

Welcome Samuel Rufinatscha to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation Jul 4, 2019

Samuel Rufinatscha has joined IOTA as a Software Engineer on the Ict and Bee teams, building the future core node framework of IOTA. You can follow his work on the #bee-dev channel of the IOTA Discord.Samuel is currently studying computer…

Qubic status update July 3rd 2019

Eric Hop Jul 3, 2019

For those of you who did not notice, we had another ReSum and SumSum last month. This putting together of all minds in the company, meeting face to face, has resulted into a renewed focus and updates to some plans. More info will be coming…

IOTA Foundation Releases the Trinity Wallet

Charlie Varley Jul 2, 2019

The IOTA Foundation is proud to announce the full release of the Trinity wallet on all major mobile and desktop platforms.Trinity started from humble beginnings as a Computer Science summer project at University College London. The…

IOTA presents at IEEE ICBC in Seoul

Andrew Greve Jun 24, 2019

The IEEE ICBC is a premier forum for the latest research in the field of DLT. At the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2019 in Seoul, South Korea, several members of our research team co-authored and presented…

ELI9: Azimuth (previously known as NB-PoW)

Jake Cahill Jun 24, 2019

A simple explanation (ELI9=explain like I am 9) of Azimuth (also known as NB-PoW) — A different approach to proof of work that we are working on as part of our long-term vision for IOTA. This post is the result of a collaboration among…

Trinity Desktop 0.6.2 Release

Charlie Varley Jun 22, 2019

The new build brings a number of crash and bug fixes. Notably, migrations from < 0.5.0 versions to latest have been fixed.Download it here: https://github.com/iotaledger/trinity-wallet/releases/tag/0.6.2Fix: Migration not…

IOTA Foundation Releases the Results of the Trinity Security Audit by SIXGEN

Charlie Varley Jun 21, 2019

We are pleased to release the results of the Trinity audit conducted by world-leading cybersecurity firm SIXGEN. A security assessment of all desktop and mobile versions (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android) revealed an overall LOW risk of…

Trinity Mobile 0.7.3 Release

Charlie Varley Jun 20, 2019

Trinity Mobile 0.7.3 has been released. This version brings a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.New: Add front camera support when QR scanning (#1795) Fix: Autopromotion not working as intended (#1794) Fix: Improve…

IOTA Newsletter #11 — Coordicide Blueprint, Supply Chain Tracking, Smart Cities…

Mark Schmidt Jun 20, 2019

IOTA announces the blueprint for CoordicideIOTA unveils blueprint for Coordicide. Read more about the removal of the Coordinator in the article and get an introduction to this technological breakthrough in the video below. Read more……

IOTA-Primority Partnership: How to improve food and consumer safety?

Michele Nati PhD Jun 20, 2019

Food allergy can be a fatal threat for unaware consumers. But even the most cautious allergy sufferers run a daily risk when they carefully pick their groceries. The labels on packaged food can be hard to read and difficult to understand…

Trinity Desktop 0.6.1 Release

Charlie Varley Jun 18, 2019

Trinity Desktop 0.6.1 has been released. This build contains several bug fixes.Download it here: https://github.com/iotaledger/trinity-wallet/releases/tag/0.6.1- Fix: Autopromotion not working as intended (#1794) - Fix: Improve…

IRI 1.7.1 Update

Jakub Cech Jun 18, 2019

What's new:Fixes to some of the current node issues, improved stability Transaction pruning is now off by default. If you want to limit the transaction history stored on your node, please use the LOCAL_SNAPSHOTS_PRUNING_ENABLED flag.…

Trinity Desktop 0.6.0 Release

Charlie Varley Jun 15, 2019

This release brings a substantial rewrite of the networking layer. Trinity will now perform automatic node management in the background. Advanced users have the option to adjust a number of different node selection settings. There are…

Connecting The Human Economy and The Machine Economy

Dan Simerman Jun 14, 2019

The IOTA technology and digital asset is a unique player in the world of distributed ledger technologies. Its forward thinking design was architected to support the unforeseen challenges of wide-scale IoT networks, quantum resistant…

Client libraries and IRI with networking rewrite update

Jakub Cech Jun 14, 2019

Many things have been baking in our IRI and client lib development efforts the past few months and I feel like it is time for another update to highlight what is coming. If you are an IRI node operator, then please do read on. We will go…

Introduction of Aigarth

Come from Beyond Jun 10, 2019

The first trillionaire will be an artificial intelligence entrepreneur. The majority of people either agree or disagree with this prediction and only a small fraction sees the third option — the whole mankind being the beneficiary. Split 1…

Welcome Jake Cahill to the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Jun 7, 2019

Jake lives in Surrey, the United Kingdom where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in applied languages, including translation, French, Spanish, Arabic, and technical communication. Before IOTA, Jake worked as a technical writer and…

Season Finale: Untangled Episode #14: Supporting Digital Infrastructure of the IOTA Economy

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Jun 6, 2019

In this episode of Untangled we are talking to Dan Simerman, the new Head of Financial Relations in the IOTA Foundation and Frank Zhou, founder & CEO of Zeux, a banking and payment app that recently partnered with IOTA.We talked about…

Qubic status update June 3rd 2019

Eric Hop Jun 4, 2019

Happy first anniversary, Qubic! We’re celebrating one year of Qubic status updates with the new simplified design that Sabri is introducing to our header image.This year has been quite the roller coaster ride, with lots of reading,…

Internet-of-Things Apocalypse

Come from Beyond Jun 2, 2019

Several years have passed since the launch of IOTA but people still do not fully understand some things about this technology, so I have decided to list nuances which are important.The Internet-of-Things is not about things communicating…

IOTA is now available on Piexgo and Cumberland

Cara Harbor Jun 1, 2019

IOTA is now available on Piexgo and over-the-counter on Cumberland exchange, a DRW company and one of the world's leading crypto OTC liquidity providers. Retail investors, hedge funds, businesses and approved investor vehicles can buy…

Trinity Desktop 0.5.2 Release

Charlie Varley May 31, 2019

- Fix: Chart and price API calls (#1595) - Fix: Skip retry failed transactions when password is not available (#1602) - Fix: Ledger onboarding loading forever without reporting an error (#1603) - Fix: Linux version incorrectly reporting…

IOTA and Avalanche

Serguei Popov May 31, 2019

People have told me recently of claims that “IOTA cloned Avalanche”, which are being expressed since the release of Shimmer. Initially, I thought “Ah, it must be those ‘Twitter experts’… not worth even a second of attention”, and went back…

Trinity Mobile 0.7.2 Release

Charlie Varley May 30, 2019

Trinity Mobile 0.7.2 is out. This build brings significant changes to the networking layer, with a new automatic node management system and granularity of node settings.- Networking overhaul with new automatic node management and…

IOTA Announces Coordicide Solution

Andrew Greve May 28, 2019

The full article was originally published by Andrew Greve on Medium. Read the full article here.With the launch of the Coordicide website we are proud to unveil our blueprint for the Coordinator’s removal — a momentous step…

Untangled Episode #13: Fraunhofer Platooning

Casper Eicke Frederiksen May 23, 2019

In the thirteenth episode of Untangled we are exploring a use case of platooning.Jonas Brügmann, Nicolas Ruhland and Matthias Babel from the Fraunhofer Blockchain Lab of the Bayreuth University has developed a business model for vehicles…

Trinity Desktop 0.5.1 release

Charlie Varley May 23, 2019

Trinity Desktop 0.5.1 has been released. This build brings several stability fixes, improves error reporting and simplifies Ledger account creation.Download it here: https://github.com/iotaledger/trinity-wallet/releases/tag/0.5.1…

Simply track the provenance and authenticity of your shirt

Jens Lund-Nielsen May 15, 2019

ALYX, EVRYTHNG, Avery Dennison and IOTA are coming together to deliver the collaboration needed to drive supply chain transparency forward.We are in the midst of a sustainability revolution where many companies from designers, producers…

IOTA at the Texas Smart Cities Summit

Mathew Yarger May 14, 2019

We’re happy to announce that we have accepted the opportunity to sponsor the first inaugural Texas Smart Cities Summit, and will be hosting a working group session and more while we’re there. We’d also like to thank Austin CityUP, a smart…

Integrating the IOTA token for businesses, large token holders and other large-scale uses

Dan Simerman May 14, 2019

In order for IOTA’s vision for the machine economy to really thrive, all sorts of people and organizations will need to be able to easily acquire and manage the IOTA token.Current methods to acquire IOTA tokens are restricted to what we…

Winners of the IOTA Smart City contest on Hackster.io

Lewis Freiberg May 10, 2019

After 60 days of developing, we are excited to announce the winners of the Smart City contest on Hackster.io. With the contest we posed a number of unique challenges from corporates who are looking toward DLT to help solve the problems…

IOTA Newsletter #10 — Jaguar Land Rover, EU Commission goes DLT with IOTA, Supply Chain…

Mark Schmidt May 9, 2019

Earn as you drive with Jaguar Land Rover & IOTAJaguar Land Rover is testing IOTA-powered Smart Wallets to implement in new models of its electric vehicles Jaguar F-PACE and Range Rover Velar. Read more… Recent NewsIOTA becomes a…

Untangled Episode #12: Nature & Wildlife

Casper Eicke Frederiksen May 9, 2019

The twelfth episode of Untangled is exploring how we can restore the quickly disappearing forests of the planet and how we can build new sustainable systems to provide a good life for both animals, plants and people.Willie Smits from the…

Trinity Desktop 0.5.0 Release

Charlie Varley May 9, 2019

Like the recent Trinity Mobile release, this is a substantial update with changes across a wide variety of app areas. Notable changes include a new encrypted database for account & transaction history storage, support for deep…

Trinity Mobile 0.7.0 Release

Charlie Varley May 3, 2019

Trinity Mobile 0.7.0 has been released. This version brings a vast amount of changes and improvements across all areas of the app.Changelog Notable fixes, additions and improvements Add Realm database and migration function…

Qubic status update May 3rd 2019

Eric Hop May 3, 2019

April was a month of consolidation, yet still saw some serious improvements as well. Especially by the end of the month we made some great strides forward and had several breakthroughs, which is why this is again a short update. There is a…

Introducing RFPs, Grant Updates & New EDF Management.

Lewis Freiberg May 3, 2019

A lot has been happening behind the scenes at the Ecosystem Development Fund over the past months. We’ve been working on a number of changes to make the EDF more transparent and responsive to the IOTA community.Most notably we’ve gotten…

ELI9: The Qubic Computation Model

Navin Ramachandran Apr 30, 2019

A simple(r) explanation of the Qubic Computation Model, written following discussions among Andrew Brough, Jake Cahill, Sabri Goldberg, Sergey Ivancheglo, Igor Nielsen, Navin Ramachandran and David Sønstebø. Probably not quite an ELI5.…

Welcome Lisa Beckers to the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Apr 29, 2019

Lisa lives in Berlin and joins IOTA as a Human Resources Administrator. In her role, she will focus on mastering the administration of the Foundation with employees in more than 20 countries.During her Bachelor in Economics at the…

EARN AS YOU DRIVE WITH JAGUAR LAND ROVER AND IOTA

Anne Smith Apr 29, 2019

IOTA Foundation is excited to announce our partnership with Jaguar Land Rover and unveil the advanced connected vehicle and integrated ‘Smart Wallet’ project that has been developed by Jaguar Land Rover at the Shannon R&D facility,…

ON THE MONEY: EARN AS YOU DRIVE WITH JAGUAR LAND ROVER

Cara Harbor Apr 29, 2019

Innovative ‘Smart Wallet’ technology will let drivers earn cryptocurrency on the go Credits can be earned for sharing information about traffic jams and potholes and used to automatically pay for tolls, parking and electric …

IOTA Opens Up IOTA Academy

Holger Kother Apr 25, 2019

The IOTA Foundation (IF) has launched its first international IOTA academy program in close cooperation with the IOT1 Academy, a deep tech academy based in Berlin and Shanghai.Under https://training.iota.org, the IOTA Foundation offers…

Untangled Episode #11: Odyssey Hackathon feat. Digital Identity

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Apr 25, 2019

In the eleventh episode of Untangled we are visiting the world’s biggest blockchain and artificial intelligence hackathon Odyssey, which is the peak of the year for the organizers from Dutchchain, an open innovation program.To hear more…

This Is What Happens When You Give a Machine a Wallet

Lewis Freiberg Apr 24, 2019

Up until recently devices connected to the Internet were relatively simple: gathering data, controlling lights, displaying information or some other mundane task. These devices were all controlled and managed from company servers or from a…

Trinity iOS 0.6.1 Released

IOTA News Apr 24, 2019

This build includes a handful of minor fixes and changes. A more substantial build will be out soon for both Android and iOS.- Increase timeout for attachToTangle network requests (#989) - Fix iOS camera zoom calculation (#995) -…

IOTA at the Odyssey Hackathon 2019

Dave de Fijter Apr 22, 2019

From the 11th to the 15th of April the biggest DLT & AI hackathon in the world took place in Groningen, The Netherlands. The Odyssey Hackathon returned for its third year with 99 highly motivated and capable teams who were supported by…

IOTA: Welcome To America

Mathew Yarger Apr 19, 2019

As the IOTA Foundation has grown, so has its reach. As many know, we at the Foundation haven’t placed much precedence on marketing and advertising. Instead, over the last few years, we focused on funneling our resources to fulfilling the…

Welcome Dan Simerman to the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Apr 19, 2019

Dan Simerman is a blockchain investor and technical product manager well versed in consumer psychology, digital assets and open source software development. He lives in Brooklyn, New York where he has spent the last two years developing…

Explaining the Qubic Computation Model: part 6

Eric Hop Apr 18, 2019

In the first part of this series we have looked at a conceptual overview of the Abra specification, which describes how data flow is achieved within the Qubic Computation Model. In the second, third, fourth, and fifth parts we used the Abra…

IOTA and EVRYTHNG Collaboration: This is how you make a transparent supply chain

Michele Nati PhD Apr 17, 2019

The collaboration between IOTA and EVRYTHNG announced today is designed specifically for making product supply chains transparent in order to meet the urging demands for sustainability from people and planet alike.Supply chains are…

Untangled Episode #10: Hannover Messe 2019

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Apr 11, 2019

For the tenth episode of Untangled, we went to the Hannover Messe in Germany.Out of the more than 6000 exhibitors at the industrial trade fair, several of them were using IOTA as their underlying data processing structure.To hear…

Stateful client libraries: part 2

Jakub Cech Apr 11, 2019

In the previous post, we highlighted some of the major changes in the client libraries, and how they simplify development on IOTA. In this post, we’ll look closer at the concept of Conditional Deposit Addresses (CDAs).CDAs are special…

Stateful client libraries: part 1

Jakub Cech Apr 11, 2019

Today, we are officially releasing the beta versions of our new stateful client libraries, which contain what we call an ‘Account module’. The name does not do justice to what is a very substantial update, so we will try to summarize the…

Running the IOTA CClient library on ESP32

Sam Chen Apr 9, 2019

CClient is an IOTA client library implemented in C. This is one of the modules in the entangled project. This post outlines how to run CClient in the ESP32 development framework. Building the IOTA CClient project on ESP32 If you are new…

Open source coordinator on Mainnet

Jakub Cech Apr 8, 2019

Coordicide, the effort of removing the Coordinator from the IOTA networks, is well under way in its research phase. One step in the journey towards Coordicide is making the inner workings of the current network set-up fully transparent. We…

Explaining the Qubic Computation Model: Part 5

Eric Hop Apr 5, 2019

In the first part of this series we have looked at a conceptual overview of the Abra specification, which describes how data flow is achieved within the Qubic Computation Model. In the second part we used the Abra specification to start…

Qubic status update April 3rd 2019

Eric Hop Apr 3, 2019

March was an extremely busy month. Luckily, we managed to get yet another community member on board to help out the Omega team: say hi to ben75, our Qupla IntelliJ plug-in creator! Benoit will be working on IXI modules at first, while…

IOTA Becomes A Founding Member of New International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications

Cara Harbor Apr 3, 2019

Brussels, Belgium, April 3, 2019- IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and permissionless ecosystem development, announced today it has joined the International Association of Trusted…

IOTA at Hannover Messe 2019

Cara Harbor Apr 2, 2019

If you are working in any industry-related area, you already know that Hannover Messe (#HM2019) is one of the most exciting global exhibitions showcasing the latest news, stories and trends of the industrial world.The IOTA protocol is…

Explaining the Qubic Computation Model: part 4

Eric Hop Apr 1, 2019

In the first part of this series, we have looked at a conceptual overview of the Abra specification, which describes the how data flow is achieved within the Qubic Computation Model. In the second part we used the Abra specification to…

IOTA Foundation supports LEDGER venture builders to foster human centric DLT solutions.

Lewis Freiberg Mar 29, 2019

€200,000 equity-free funding and 12-month programme available to IOTA and DLT development ecosystemThe IOTA Foundation is proud to support LEDGER, an European Commission funded project, which is looking for people working on…

Explaining the Qubic Computation Model: part 3

Eric Hop Mar 29, 2019

In the first part of this series we have looked at a conceptual overview of the Abra specification, which describes the how data flow is achieved within the Qubic Computation Model. In the second part we used the Abra specification to start…

Explaining the Qubic Computation Model: Part 2

Eric Hop Mar 28, 2019

In the first part of this series we have looked at a conceptual overview of the Abra specification, which describes the how dataflow is achieved within the Qubic Computation Model. In this second part, we will use the Abra specification to…

Explaining the Qubic Computation Model: Part 1

Eric Hop Mar 25, 2019

Ever since we first revealed the Qubic protocol we have been asked to go into more detail about the inner workings of the Qubic Computation Model. This is the first, in a series of blog posts, that will attempt to do exactly that. So fasten…

Untangled Episode #8: Smart Cities: Energy — Part I

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Mar 21, 2019

In the eighth episode of Untangled we are digging into the substantial topic of Smart Cities with a specific focus on the energy sector and the immense challenges residing therein.To uncover what the cities of the near future will be…

Payments App Zeux Adds IOTA For Crypto Payments at all Shops

Cara Harbor Mar 21, 2019

BERLIN, GERMANY (March 21, 2019) — Payments and banking services app Zeux has teamed with the IOTA Foundation to create a system that will allow users to use MIOTA tokens as payment with merchants that accept Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.…

Welcome Philipp Blum to the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Mar 15, 2019

Philipp Blum is joining IOTA as Developer Advocate of the Ecosystem team. In this role, he will focus on growing and developing an IoT developer community. Philipp lives in Berlin, Germany and has been in the technology sector for over 6…

IOTA Research Grant Awarded to Professor Robert Shorten

Andrew Greve Mar 14, 2019

The IOTA Foundation is proud to announce that Professor Robert Shorten is the recipient of a substantial research grant that will fund academic researchers’ work on the IOTA Tangle for a three-year program of research. The grant includes…

IOTA Area Codes — A proposal to geo-tag IOTA Transactions

Lewis Freiberg Mar 13, 2019

IOTA is a flexible protocol that can be utilized in various ways. The most common is value transfer via the native token. However, IOTA can be easily extended by building standards on top of the base protocol. Both Masked Authenticated…

Welcome Marcos Andrade to the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Mar 9, 2019

Marcos Andrade lives in Altea, he is a Graphic Designer, born in Caracas, Venezuela. His passion is traditional illustration and animation. He is very creative and needs to illustrate everything that surrounds him. He leaves drawings…

Welcome Rajiv Shah to the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Mar 8, 2019

Rajiv Shah is a software engineer with experience in cross-platform mobile software development. His fascination with programming was sparked by work with Scratch and Lego League in elementary and middle school. After learning the basics of…

Untangled Episode #7: IOTA Research Council & Department

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Mar 7, 2019

In the seventh episode of Untangled, we are continuing in the realm of research and are talking to the IOTA Foundation’s new Director of Research, Moody Alam, and one of the IOTA originals and author of the IOTA Whitepaper, Serguei Popov.…

A Coo-less Testnet

Alon Gal Mar 5, 2019

A Testnet with no Coordinator We are happy to announce the launch of znet, the first iteration of the IOTA Coordinator-less testnet. This testnet has in fact been alive for several weeks, but we would like to officially open it up to…

IOTA: The Distributed Ledger Technology Designed for the Internet of Things

Cara Harbor Mar 4, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an umbrella term for billions of Internet-connected devices that share data with each other. Thanks to this data-sharing network, IoT will become a driving force in creating more efficient communication…

Qubic status update March 3rd 2019

Eric Hop Mar 3, 2019

February turned out to be an even shorter month than it normally already is. First, our previous update was a few days late, and in addition some people finally took some well-deserved vacation days left over from last year. So this will be…

Assuring authenticity in the Tangle with signatures

Wolfgang Welz Feb 27, 2019

In today’s blog post we will take a closer look at one of the core concepts of IOTA and any crypto currency, namely public key cryptography and digital signatures.In IOTA, in order to transfer tokens from one address to another, you…

Welcome Martyn Janes to IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Feb 27, 2019

Martyn Janes is a seasoned developer with more than 25 years of experience. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computing and a Masters degree in Interactive Computing System Design (Human Computer Interaction) from Loughborough University, UK.…

Welcome Felix Krupar to IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Feb 26, 2019

Felix Krupar is a fully qualified lawyer admitted to the German Bar with a focus on IT and Privacy Law. He joins the IOTA Foundation as Regulatory Affairs Specialist.After growing up in a small village in the Alps, Felix studied law in…

The IOTA Data Marketplace: a technical introduction

Alexey Sobolev Feb 25, 2019

Part 2: Sensor Onboarding https://data.iota.orgThis is the first in a series of technical level posts, aimed at those who want to understand more about how Data Marketplace works under the hood. In this article I introduce the Sensor…

The IOTA Data Marketplace: a technical introduction

Alexey Sobolev Feb 25, 2019

Part 5: Checkout and Deploy your application https://data.iota.orgIn the previous article in this series, we talked about cloud backend configuration. Today we will learn how to checkout, build and deploy your version of the Data…

The IOTA Data Marketplace: a technical introduction

Alexey Sobolev Feb 25, 2019

Part 4: Cloud Backend Configuration https://data.iota.orgIn the previous article in this series, we talked about publishing sensor data. Today we will learn how to setup and configure a cloud backend to store settings and encryption…

The IOTA Data Marketplace: a technical introduction

Alexey Sobolev Feb 25, 2019

Part 3: Publishing Sensor Data https://data.iota.orgIn the previous article in this series, we discussed the sensor onboarding in detail. Today we will learn how to submit sensor data to Tangle using a simple script.Let me…

Part 1: IOTA Data Marketplace — Update

Cara Harbor Feb 25, 2019

The IOTA Foundation launched the Data Marketplace (https://data.iota.org) in the fourth quarter of 2017, as a Proof of Concept (PoC) and open innovation ecosystem. Over a year later, it is now time for the Data Marketplace (DMP) PoC to…

IOTA Announces Smart City Development Competition with Groupe Renault, ENGIE Lab CRIGEN, VEOLIA…

Cara Harbor Feb 25, 2019

IOTA Announces Smart City Development Competition with Groupe Renault, ENGIE Lab CRIGEN, VEOLIA Birdz, Sopra Steria, and Supporting Organizations (BERLIN, GERMANY — February 25, 2019) IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on…

IRI and client libraries update Feb 22

Jakub Cech Feb 22, 2019

In the last update, we outlined some ongoing work on both IRI and the client libraries. This post will mainly summarize the work that has been going on and its results.If you have questions on the day-to-day development of IRI and…

Untangled Episode #6: Research Summit feat. Coordicide & Attack Analysis

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Feb 22, 2019

For the sixth episode of Untangled, we went to Barcelona to follow the IOTA Foundation Research Summit 2019. The entire Research Department was, for the first time ever, all gathered in the same place and many fruitful discussions, ideas…

IOTA Research Summit 2019

Andrew Greve Feb 21, 2019

The IOTA research department recently gathered for one week of focused discussion and planning around some of the most critical aspects of the organizational roadmap, including Coordicide and attack analysis. This blog post summarizes the…

Welcome Professor Robert Shorten to the IOTA Research Council

David Sonstebo Feb 21, 2019

Professor Robert Shorten is joining IOTA as a member of the Research Council. In this role, Robert will focus on advising and helping the research department make strategic decisions.Robert studied Electronic Engineering at University…

Welcome Dr. Moody Alam to the IOTA Foundation

David Sonstebo Feb 21, 2019

Dr. Moody Alam is joining IOTA as Director of Research. In this role, Moody will focus on overseeing research at the IOTA Foundation.Dr. Moody Alam is a Chartered Scientist (CSci) with the UK Science Council, and a Fellow of the Royal…

IOTA joins the biggest blockchain hackathon in the world: Odyssey

Lewis Freiberg Feb 19, 2019

The IOTA Foundation has joined the Odyssey Hackathon, in Groningen NL from April 12–14, as an Ecosystem partner.The Odyssey Hackathon connects selected top teams (new teams, pre-startups, startups, and SMEs) to their potential launching…

On stress tests and improving the IOTA networks

Jakub Cech Feb 12, 2019

The stress tests over the past few weeks probably have not escaped (m)any of you. Be it due to the numbers they produced, or the discussions surrounding them.The IOTA Foundation considers stress tests to be an indispensable part of the…

IRI and client libraries update Feb 8

Jakub Cech Feb 8, 2019

The past weeks our engineering department has been transitioning to a very different, and much more open communication model with our community. Regular updates for Trinity, Entangled, IRI and client libraries are now coming out.…

Untangled Episode #5: Connecting Hardware Sensors with the Tangle

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Feb 7, 2019

In the fifth of episode of Untangled we are exploring how to combine hardware sensors with the Tangle. We are talking to Daniel De Michele, founder of XDK2MAM, about their grant winning project and the future need for more code writers.…

Qubic status update February 3rd 2019

Eric Hop Feb 5, 2019

Hey everyone, sorry for the small delay in getting this IOTA Qubic status update out. We will still call it the February 3rd status update because I did not have the heart to ask Sabri to redo this gorgeous image. Did you know that Sabri…

IOTA Community Assists Local Authorities with Arrest of Fraud Suspect for Creating a Fake Seed…

Koen Maris Feb 4, 2019

On January 23, 2019, Europol released information on the arrest of a 36-year-old man they have on suspicion of fraud, perpetrated against the members of the IOTA community and others. This was a significant and extremely unfortunate event…

Trinity Update: Feb 1st

IOTA News Feb 1, 2019

Last week we released Trinity Mobile 0.6.0 beta. This was a substantial step forward for the mobile version, including a number of considerable changes and improvements. The addition of node quorum vastly improves the wallet’s security when…

Posets and Consensus

William Sanders Jan 31, 2019

In any cryptocurrency, transactions are linked to one another using hashes. This unalterable relationship endows the set of transactions with a natural mathematical structure called a partial order. In this post, we discuss partial orders…

Welcome to the new IOTA documentation portal

Jakub Cech Jan 30, 2019

As you probably know, we have been working on a new user experience for our documentation portal. We are now releasing the first version of the portal. There are still many things that we want to build into the portal in the not-too-far-off…

Energinet and the IOTA Foundation to Drive Internet of Things Integration in the Energy Ecosystem

Cara Harbor Jan 30, 2019

Energinet and the IOTA Foundation (IOTA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in experimentation with the IOTA Tangle in the IoT and energy market domains.Energinet is an independent public enterprise owned by the Danish…

Applying IOTA in Global Trade and Supply Chains: Mission Possible

Jens Lund-Nielsen Jan 28, 2019

Trade facilitation, track & trace, provenance… There are many opportunities to apply Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) to international trade and build true innovation. An innovation leveraging the features offered by DLTs, can…

IRI and client libraries update: Jan. 25

Jakub Cech Jan 25, 2019

To follow up on previous updates from the Trinity and Entangled teams, the client libraries team and the IRI team will also be posting regular updates on the development progress. The updates will contain both an overview of what the teams…

Untangled Episode #4: Indoor Mapping & Localisation

Casper Eicke Frederiksen Jan 24, 2019

In the fourth episode of Untangled we are exploring the realm of indoor mapping and localisation. Mapping and localisation has reached incredible levels of accuracy over the years, but indoor mapping is lacking far behind.To find out…

Trinity Update: Jan 18th

IOTA News Jan 18, 2019

This is the first of resurrected regular updates from the Trinity team. Every two weeks, we will be posting a brief overview of the team’s recent focus, together with any ideas and longer-term plans surrounding the project.Here’s a…

Who’s In Who’s Out: a Rate Control Algorithm for the Tangle

IOTA News Jan 17, 2019

Rate control in distributed ledgers In most networks, there are circumstances where the incoming traffic load is larger than what the network can handle. If nothing is done to restrict the entrance of traffic, bottlenecks can slow down the…

IRI 1.6.0 with local snapshots out now!

IOTA News Jan 11, 2019

We know you have all been waiting for this for quite some time. Finally we have finished implementing local snapshots, a feature that allows you to run your node without storing the full transaction history. This means faster…

Smart grid and IOTA — Self balancing grid with smart transformers and smart devices

IOTA News Jan 10, 2019

Smart grid and IOTA — Self balancing grid with smart transformers and smart devices TL;DR: We built a proof of concept of how a smart grid could autonomously balance itself, by sharing data in a secure way via IOTA and letting device…

Untangled Episode #3: New Industrial Business Models

IOTA News Jan 10, 2019

Untangled enters 2019 with a look on New Industrial Business Models and how distributed ledger technologies are part of shaping these in the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0.We are speaking to Simon Jegelka, Managing Director…

IOTA Foundation Partners with Crypto Storage AG to Offer the First Institutional-Grade IOTA Token…

IOTA News Jan 9, 2019

Crypto Storage AG provides the first professional IOTA crypto token storage infrastructure solution worldwide. IOTA has set itself apart from blockchain developments with the creation of the Tangle. The Tangle is a permissionless, no-fee…

IBCS Group Uses IOTA Tangle Technology for Track and Trace Supply Chain Solution

IOTA News Jan 8, 2019

(BERLIN, GERMANY — January 8, 2018) The IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and permissionless ecosystem development, announced today that its open source Tangle technology and Masked…

The structure of the Tangle — Number of approvers

IOTA News Jan 4, 2019

In this blog, we talk about the number of direct approvers a tip can receive. In the Tangle, each transaction approves exactly two tips. While this implies that the average number of direct approvers is equal to two, the actual number of…

Qubic status update January 3rd 2019

IOTA News Jan 3, 2019

Happy New Year everyone! And welcome to the revamped Qubic team!December saw a restructuring of our development processes with the introduction of Omega team. After a little bit of initial upheaval everyone quickly decided on a personal…

LoraWAN and IOTA: Proof of Concept of storing data in real time in the Tangle

IOTA News Jan 3, 2019

My wish for 2019 was to create a proof of concept around LoraWAN with IOTA. The obvious thing to do is to store data sent by a LoraWAN device directly into the Tangle. This would be awesome, so… I did! The LoraWAN device I used bought at…

The Perfect Brainstorm: Contest Winners

IOTA News Jan 2, 2019

With over 210 ideas submitted by our community, the Perfect Brainstorm was a great success, beyond everyone’s expectations. The ideas presented by the community varied greatly, from tamperproof 3D printing, to improving air traffic…

CHAT.ixi — Using Ict for Permissionless Chat on the IOTA Tangle

IOTA News Jan 1, 2019

The Iota Controlled agenT (Ict) is a project being developed by the IOTA Foundation Omega Team. To most in the community, Ict appears rather abstract, futuristic and difficult to fully grasp. This is why Samuel and I have decided to…

Year in review, year in preview

IOTA News Jan 1, 2019

Year in review 2018 kicked off in the midst of a crypto craze reminiscent of the dotCom one almost 2 decades ago; the grand promise and vast potential of distributed ledger technology had finally started to reach the mainstream and…

Untangled Episode #2: Exploring eHealth

IOTA News Dec 27, 2018

After a warm welcome of Untangled two weeks ago, we are ready to release the next episode of the podcast to keep you enlightened during the Holidays. And, make sure you enter the new year fit and healthy.In the second episode of…

The challenges facing today’s supply chains

IOTA News Dec 20, 2018

A large part of today’s trade is still based on paper documents and antiquated processes that slow down international trade and have a significant impact on the economy. Trucks and containers standing idle (and thus increasing CO2 emissions…

IOTA and CYBERCRYPT Announce New Lightweight Trinary Cryptographic Hash Function

IOTA News Dec 20, 2018

BERLIN, GERMANY — December 20, 2018 IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and permissionless ecosystem development, today announced a new lightweight trinary cryptographic hash function in…

Mixing Time in The Tangle

IOTA News Dec 17, 2018

When my 8 year old twin nieces asked me what I do at my new job, I told them a story: “Imagine you meet a person who is traveling through the whole world. If he told you he started traveling an hour ago, you’d guess he started in the same…

Audi Denkwerkstatt & IOTA: Shaping the future of mobility

IOTA News Dec 14, 2018

Berlin, December 14th, during the hot Berlin summer this year, a team from the Audi Denkwerkstatt started a four month innovation sprint to explore the opportunities of using IOTA technology to solve real world problems in the area of…,

Introducing Untangled — the IOTA Podcast

IOTA News Dec 13, 2018

We are happy and excited to announce the release of our new podcast, Untangled.The podcast will be released every other week and explore the many different use cases of the Tangle in the real world in a tangible way for real people.…

Welcome Julia Schulz to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Dec 11, 2018

Julia Schulz joins the IOTA Foundation as Assistant to the Board. She lives in Berlin, Germany. Julia holds a Bachelor of Arts and has worked at the Swedish energy company Vattenfall for the past 9 years.Starting her career as a team…

Introducing the Omega Team

IOTA News Dec 11, 2018

Even with bleeding edge technology such as IOTA, we must balance the need for innovation, with the need to pursue standardisation and operationalisation of more developed streams. The concept of bimodal IT has become increasingly popular in…

The Third Cohort of IOTA Ecosystem Development Fund Grantees

IOTA News Dec 10, 2018

“Open Source Software (OSS) is by far the most exciting lever + trend for major structural change in technology over the past decade and little has been written about how this works from a data-driven lens: several $X00B+ to $1T+ industries…

Welcome Janna Zielinski to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Dec 10, 2018

Janna Zielinski joins The IOTA Foundation as Head of Strategic Projects, responsible for internal and external Business Model Innovation, and long-term collaboration models. She will support our collaborators in identifying market…

Welcome Mariana De La Roche Wills to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Dec 10, 2018

Mariana De La Roche Wills is a Colombian human rights lawyer and entrepreneur. She holds a Law degree from the Rosario University and a specialization in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the Externado University. She graduated with a…

eCl@ss and the IOTA Foundation Announce Partnership to Standardize IoT Payments and Data…

IOTA News Dec 5, 2018

(BERLIN, GERMANY — December 5, 2018) — IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and permissionless ecosystem development, today announced a new partnership with eCl@ss to standardize and…

Qubic status update December 3rd 2018

IOTA News Dec 3, 2018

Wow, there went November already. Time sure flies when you’re having fun.We continued to work on the Qubic Dispatcher. At the moment we’re working on the system boundary entities that allow us to interface with the Tangle…

The IOTA Foundation and RIDDLE&CODE Partner to Enable the Industrial Internet of Things

IOTA News Dec 3, 2018

(BERLIN & VIENNA, December 3, 2018) — the IOTA Foundation and RIDDLE&CODE today announced their agreement to create a fully trusted path from sensor to Distributed Ledger by integrating their respective technologies. This…

Develop Connected Car Apps Using HIGH MOBILITY and IOTA!

IOTA News Nov 30, 2018

The collaboration between HIGH MOBILITY and the IOTA Foundation kicked off with the launch of the IOTA workspace on HIGH MOBILITY’s website.The IOTA workspace within the HIGH MOBILITY platform:HIGH MOBILITY has a sleek online…

IOTA Contest: The Perfect Brainstorm

IOTA News Nov 24, 2018

The community around IOTA is one of the most vibrant and innovative in the entire DLT ecosystem. With the help of the Ecosystem Fund, the IOTA Foundation is focused on funding the development of projects utilizing IOTA — effectively helping…

Coordinator. Part 4: An Open Source Coordinator

IOTA News Nov 20, 2018

Today marks a milestone (pun intended!) for the IOTA project.We are releasing the code for a new open source version of the coordinator that has been in the works since late last year. The code repository can be found at:…

Coordinator. Part 3: Approaches to Coordicide

IOTA News Nov 20, 2018

While the Coordinator is a powerful protective tool, the objections to its existence are well-understood. The IOTA Foundation is eager to see the day it can be retired. And the research department of the IOTA Foundation has a dedicated…

Coordinator. Part 2: IOTA is a DAG, not a Blockchain

IOTA News Nov 20, 2018

In this second post in the series, we offer some further insights into the exact nature of the IOTA ledger as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). This exercise is particularly useful because these differences help explain the overall future…

Coordinator. Part 1: The Path to Coordicide

IOTA News Nov 20, 2018

This is the first of a multi-part blog series which explains our current plans for removing the Coordinator from the IOTA network, a major milestone towards decentralization.We are excited to open up the discussion about the next steps…

Welcome Bill Buchanan to the IOTA Research Council

IOTA News Nov 16, 2018

Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, a Fellow of the BCS, and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday…

Introducing the IOTA Research Council

IOTA News Nov 16, 2018

The IOTA Foundation supports the creation of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technologies, to form the backbone of a future automated data-driven society. With this monumental task comes a growing responsibility for oversight and…

Welcome Angelo Capossele to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 15, 2018

Angelo Capossele joins IOTA Foundation as a new Senior Research Scientist. He is interested in applied cryptography, Internet of Things, security and privacy and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Rome “La Sapienza”,…

Welcome Dany Shaanan to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 15, 2018

Dany Shaanan is joining IOTA as a Research Scientist on the Research team. In this role, Dany will focus on the Coordicide project (the eventual removal of the Coordinator, a bootstrapping mechanism that creates additional security for the …

Welcome Wolfgang Welz to IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 14, 2018

Wolfgang Welz is a researcher and software developer with areas of interest in combinatorial optimization, graph algorithms and network design.He studied mathematics and computer science at the Technische Universität Berlin.After…

Welcome Luigi Vigneri to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 14, 2018

Luigi Vigneri Ph.D. is a computer scientist with experience in network modeling, graph and queueing theory, large-scale optimization and performance evaluation of networks. He will be joining the Foundation as a senior research scientist.…

Welcome William Sanders to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 13, 2018

William Sanders is an academic from the realm of pure mathematics. William undertook his undergraduate studies at The University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D. and The University of Kansas. Three years ago, he arrived as a postdoc at the…

Welcome Andreas Penzkofer to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 13, 2018

Andreas Penzkofer is an electrical engineer and physicist, specializing in analytical and numerical methods. He completed his Ph.D. and post-doctoral research in Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK, developing models…

Welcome Pierre Hoffmann to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 10, 2018

Pierre Hoffmann is a business developer who has worked for companies such as TOTAL and Microsoft. Pierre was initially interested in Artificial Intelligence and the way it reshapes the economy, before diving into IoT & Distributed…

Confirmation and ɑ

IOTA News Nov 8, 2018

Currently, we do not need any measure of acceptance of a transaction, since the coordinator issues milestones, which provides us a simple rule to decide whether a transaction should or should not be accepted. But what would happen after the…

Welcome Anne Smith to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 8, 2018

Anne Smith is a Senior Project Manager with an extensive background in Software and Hardware Quality Management. She has managed international projects and technical teams in the US, Finland, China, India, Netherlands, UK, and Germany.…

Welcome Sadjy Sadjan to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 6, 2018

Sadjy Sadjan is a Networks, Systems and Security Engineer, as well as a cryptocurrency enthusiast. He holds an Engineering degree in Networking and Services and OSCP certification. His previous roles include Network and Security Consultant…

Welcome Andrew Brough to IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 5, 2018

Andrew Brough joins the IOTA Foundation as a Senior UX/UI Designer, bringing onboard a wealth of experience in user-centered design to the IOTA ecosystem.Working closely with Dr. Navin Ramachandran and the Trinity team, Andrew has…

Welcome Luca Moser to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 5, 2018

Luca Moser is a self-taught full-stack software engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland, with a strong interest in web technologies and backend systems. At an early age, he began to experiment by building his own computers. Later in his…

Welcome Lukas Tassanyi to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Nov 4, 2018

Lukas Tassanyi is a German Student currently doing his Bachelor of Computer Science at the Technical University Dresden. He is better known to the IOTA community as MicroHash for his work in the ecosystem, such as the IOTA Spam Fund and his…

Qubic status update November 3rd 2018

IOTA News Nov 3, 2018

October flew by in a hurry. While expanding the Abra support library AbraLib we found cause for a few minor changes to the Abra language to make it easier to use. In addition AbraLib was cleaned up and some initial best practices/patterns…

Go and Java library beta out now and what’s next for IOTA client libraries

IOTA News Nov 2, 2018

IOTA client libraries are an important part of our developer ecosystem. We see many of you using them to build amazing things every day. That’s why it’s important that we invest in their future. Back in August, we released the first beta…

IOTA Foundation Announces Integration with Ledger Hardware Wallet for Secure Storage and User…

IOTA News Nov 2, 2018

IOTA Foundation Announces Integration with Ledger Hardware Wallet for Secure Storage and User Access of IOTA Tokens. , you can now Isolate your Tokens From your Computer or Smartphone(BERLIN, GERMANY — November 2, 2018)…

Help us build a great documentation portal

IOTA News Nov 1, 2018

Information sharing is a vital part of achieving our vision. Making sure all the necessary information is available in a clear and concise manner is a cornerstone to a great ecosystem. Our documentation site has been the go-to place for…

IOTA Foundation and HIGH MOBILITY to Drive App Development for Smart Mobility

IOTA News Oct 31, 2018

(BERLIN, GERMANY — October 31, 2018) — HIGH MOBILITY and the IOTA Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the integration of IOTA content, blueprints and tutorials into HIGH MOBILITY´s developer platform.…

IOTA and Freedom

IOTA News Oct 26, 2018

Who controls node behaviour? As you all know, from the beginning, we wanted to build a cryptosystem with no transaction fees. As explained many times (e.g. here), to get rid of the fees one has to get rid of miners. Miners are those…

Trinity Public Bug Bounty

IOTA News Oct 24, 2018

The Trinity Wallet bug bounty program is now open to the public Since its release, Trinity Wallet has been warmly welcomed by the IOTA community. Trinity improves in almost all aspects of the previous wallet. Not only does it have improved…

Welcome S. D. Nelson to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Oct 15, 2018

S. D. Nelson (“Nelson”) joins IOTA as a technical writer. From quick start to deep dive, he can explain IOTA technology so everyone understands. He shares IOTA’s passion for zero-cost transactions in the Internet of Things so that society…

IOTA’s Tangle Powers IAMPASS Biometric Palm Vein Authentication For Digital Identity

IOTA News Oct 15, 2018

IOTA Gains Momentum for its Smart City Initiative with Bio-Identity Verification, GERMANY — October 15, 2018) IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and permissionless ecosystem…

A Proposal for Reusable Addresses [Part 3]