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 already been instrumental in helping to shape the current Trinity Desktop and Mobile wallets over the last eight months. A London-based design professional with over 12 years of agency experience, he has worked as a UX/UI lead for clients such as Nokia, Disney, Oxford University, RBS,…

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 teenage years, he grew his love of programming by writing extensions for his favorite game. Luca has worked for the same IT company since the age of 15, where he modernized internal processes by programming various applications ranging from a web-based DMS, to interfaces between CRM and…

One thing is clear! The more well-known IOTA and the more companies and people deal with IOTA, the greater the scope of application will be. Currently, the specialists mainly deal with IOTA but in the future, large sections of the population will also do so. At the moment, IOTA and Tangle are still in need of explanation for many people. IOTA can become a centerpiece of the Internet of Things in the future. But currently, it makes the impression that the time factor is crucial, because IOTA competes with other…

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 Medium articles on Qubic. Namely Qubic Lite — his own implementation of the Qubic protocol — reached a lot of interest from the community. On joining IOTA Ever since I found out about IOTA, I was in complete awe of its lightweight design. Quite soon I started to play around with the…

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 were established. The interpreter was further expanded to handle state variables correctly, and an initial Qubic Dispatcher was created that can dispatch event data between outside data sources and internal Qubic entities represented by Abra functions. Our next step will be a plug-in…

Introduction IOTA allows feeless and secure messaging by attaching zero-value transactions to the tangle. While data on the tangle is immutable and therefore tamper-proof, additional techniques are needed to fulfil other security requirements such as confidentiality and authentication. Another problem is the linking of multiple messages carrying related data. A convenient way to point to multiple messages is needed instead of referencing each zero-value transaction explicitly. Random Access Authenticated Messaging is an…

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 version of the JavaScript library (IOTA JS). The rewrite to Typescript has had a great reception and 4 new versions of the library have come out since. Recently, we added IOTA Go and IOTA Java to the client libraries that we will be actively developing. Since then, we have had dedicated…

IOTA Foundation Announces Integration with Ledger Hardware Wallet for Secure Storage and User Access of IOTA Tokens Now IOTA Token Holders Can Isolate Their Tokens From Their Computer or Smartphone (BERLIN, GERMANY — November 2, 2018) IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology and permissionless ecosystem development, announced today a new collaboration with Ledger, the cryptocurrency and blockchain security leader, to integrate IOTA tokens with Ledger’s secure hardware wallets…

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 many of you, whether you want to satisfy your curiosity on the inner workings of the Tangle, or you are trying to build something great on top of it. As time progressed and the community around IOTA grew, the demands for our documentation portal have also increased. As a result, the demand…

Q: What is your name, and who do you work for? Jochen Renz, Advisor to the IOTA Foundation Q: What is your project/what are you working on? IOTA is a 3rd generation distributed ledger technology (DLT) that is built for the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) economy. Unlike traditional blockchain technologies, it is not based on “blocks” and “chains” with its inherent limitations such as scalability issues, transactions fees and centralization of mining power. IOTA is the first DLT based on a “Directed…

IOTA’s areas of application are not only limited to cars, but include buildings, as shown by the Trondheim project of ENTRA (Norway). At the end of August, ENRA ASA (a Norwegian real estate company managing 1.2 million square miles in 128 buildings, €228m profit in 2016) published the following news: We are currently working to find the optimal solution for using all the pure energy that needs to be produced.  (source) This news is nothing unusual from them since they have built Norway’s first energy-positive office…

(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. HIGH MOBILITY envisions solving one of the key challenges for carmakers as well as app developers: how can big corporates engage and work with thousands of independent developers simultaneously and how can a developer use standardized car APIs for seamless prototyping? Through community and…