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William Sanders 14 posts

I love exploration and discovery of mathematics research, and I am excited to work on the fascinating problems facing the IOTA Foundation. Besides the intellectual challenges ahead, I look forward to studying questions with great societal benefits. I believe that my journey from pure to applied math should be an exciting one.

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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…

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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…

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IOTA Research Status UpdateApril 2021

William Sanders Apr 8, 2021

This month has been quite busy for us, as we enter the home stretch on our way to delivering Nectar, the first feature-complete implementation of our fully decentralized, Coordinator-free network, due in a few weeks! Our groups have all…

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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…

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Explaining Mana in IOTA – Part 2

William Sanders Mar 17, 2021

Last week, we released a new version of our Pollen testnet which contains mana. With this release, we demonstrated the maturity and the efficiency of our mana solution. Soon, mana will be implemented into many modules, an important step in…

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