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. When you buy IOTA, 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(BERLIN, 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]

IOTA News Oct 14, 2018

We explained our proposal’s basic concept in the 2nd part of this series. We will now explain why IOTA was not designed like this in the first place, and why the proposed solution cannot fully replace the way transactions are handled right …

A Proposal for Reusable Addresses [Part 2]

IOTA News Oct 13, 2018

In the first part of this blog post, we discussed our motivation for introducing reusable addresses. Moreover, we suggested why this would work best at the protocol level, rather than as a second-layer approach. In this part of the blog…

IOTA Trinity Update – 12th October

IOTA Oct 13, 2018

It’s been a while since we posted an update, so here’s an overview of the things we’ve been working on the IOTA wallet in the past few weeks. Something that has been on many community member’s minds is IOTA ledger nano s integration. We are pleased…

A Proposal for Reusable Addresses [Part1]

IOTA News Oct 12, 2018

IOTA has been criticized for making design choices that are fundamentally different to others in the distributed ledger field.One of those choices was to use a quantum-resistant signature scheme, which (while being safe from quantum…

Configuration improvements in IRI 1.5.5

IOTA News Oct 11, 2018

Today marks the release of IRI 1.5.5. The IOTA Reference Implementation (IRI) software is the backbone of the IOTA network. An evolving piece of software that is incrementally moving towards the implementation outlined in the IOTA white …

Attack analysis – the simple parasite chain

IOTA News Oct 10, 2018

Note: This blog post is intended for a reader with a basic understanding of the Tangle. In particular, we heavily rely on concepts like a random walk in the Tangle, a cumulative weight (and how it affects random walk), an α parameter and a…

Welcome Thibault Martinez to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Oct 8, 2018

Thibault Martinez is a French Software Engineer living in Montpellier. He graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Epitech (Paris Graduate School of Digital Innovation), where he also has been a teacher and deputy head of…

The Second Cohort of Ecosystem Development Fund Grantees

IOTA News Oct 5, 2018

“With open source, better/faster/cheaper by itself is available for the low, low IOTA Coin price of zero dollars. As an open source company, we don’t cry about that. Instead, we look at how open source might create a new inflection point that…

Welcome Daniela Faustino to the IOTA Foundation

IOTA News Oct 5, 2018

Daniela Faustino is a passionate international business executive with a focus on building teams and organizational capacity. A proven track record as senior leadership team member in crafting a strategic vision, driving growth and…

Welcome Cara Harbor to the IOTA Foundation

Cara Harbor joins The IOTA Foundation as the new Head of Communication. In this role, she will be instrumental in developing The IOTA Foundation’s external and internal communication strategy. She will also lead the charge in ensuring IOTA…

Qubic status update October 3rd 2018

September was all about testing the IOTA Qubic programming language Abra and creating its initial support library, which is written in Abra of course. While creating the support library, the need arose to be able to verify all kinds of ideas.…

Validity in the Tangle: The good, the bad, and the ugly

This article discusses how we can assess the validity of a transaction in a distributed ledger, and the particular issues we face in the case of the Tangle.To begin with, let’s look at blockchain data structures. In a blockchain, before…

One seed to sow your key(s)

IOTA tokens are stored in private, pseudo-anonymous virtual ‘wallets’. Each wallet is identified and protected by a unique access key known as a ‘seed’. Although we call them wallets, they do not actually store the iota crypto tokens. Think of them as…

Welcome Florian Doebler to the IOTA Foundation

Florian Doebler is an Economist and Entrepreneur with a focus on behavioral science and international development. He joins the IOTA Foundation as Social Impact & Donor Relations Coordinator at our headquarters in Berlin. During his…