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, IOTA Coin Holders Can Now Isolate Their Tokens From Their 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…