This is my first article for the IOTA community. It’s an introduction of my vision for the meta-iota OpenEmbedded layer, as well as a hands-on tutorial that acts as a proof-of-concept. Introduction The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture. Meanwhile, OpenEmbedded is a build automation framework and cross-compile environment used to create Linux distributions for embedded devices. Together, these projects…

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 only build on a decentralized trust layer. In our prototype marketplace, the trust layer was provided by the IOTA infrastructure. To build an asset-trading marketplace, we need to develop a number of building blocks, more or less decentralized. Generic Marketplace ArchitectureThe result of…

Back in May, the IOTA team attended the TMForum Digital Transformation World event in Nice. The event was organized by the TMForum, a not-for-profit industry association, whose mission is to drive the digital transformation for the future growth of its partners, operating in the telecommunication and related sectors. For them, the TMForum paves the way for the exploration of new technologies and business models.  One way TMForum does this is through the Catalysts program. The Catalysts are innovation activities sponsored by…

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 research has already been published, and more is yet to come. Given that Coordicide is a top priority, we want to fund community contributions to our research. This way, we hope to attract expertise from academia and other research organizations to propel the growth of the IOTA ecosystem and…

With the “Test The Tangle Text” event and a new telegram group “Free IOTA for testing”, the public IOTA project is trying to introduce people and companies to IOTA and the Tangle technology. Reduce barriers for people to try the Tangle technology and assisting others by removing friction is the aim oft that event. Many experts call IOTA with the Tangle technology the cryptocurrency of a new generation. There are a number of factors that make IOTA interesting. In summary, there are 5 areas where IOTA clearly hits other…

Open Sourcing of the GoShimmer Prototype At 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 the world, and we recently opened up our Engineering communication channels on Discord. Now, we are ready to push this approach even further by opening up our Research department’s code on the prototype. In our previous blog, we laid out our roadmap for getting the Coordicide approach…

I conducted a little study on the IOTA Community. I would like to share my findings today. This medium post only is a brief overview over the study. You can download the findings here. Some months ago, I had a discussion with members of the IOTA Foundation and other community members about how we can attract new people into the IOTA Community as one user was frustrated that there were not enough people working on the core protocol. One person suggested to focus on marketing while others pointed out that the protocol…

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 semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, to create a new level of powerful, seamless and cost-effective access to Internet of Things (IoT) functionality. The cornerstone of this cooperation is the integration of the IOTA Tangle, a fee-free,…

The “public IOTA project” was launched about 18 months ago. We started with the motto “to move IOTA and the Tangle forward”. Since then, we have been trying to advance the project with open and honest reporting. With this compilation we would like to show the highlights s of this project. During this time we have held countless conversational discussions with people, companies, cities and research institutes and have been able to inspire a whole range for IOTA and the technology of Tangle. It’s nice to see that some of…

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 months and years. Without a platform to explore the many components that make up our story, the world may find it difficult to grasp the full scope of IOTA in a sea of technologies and digital assets. In order to share the IOTA story with you all, we’ve developed IOTA Insights, a series…

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 network, it is often described as “training wheels for the network while it is still in its infancy.” We have been hard at work understanding how to safely remove those training wheels. We recently published our Coordicide blueprint, which outlines the progress we have made so far, as…

“Test The Tangle Text” is an event with the goal that many people test IOTA and the Tangle technology for experience the outstanding properties. Everyone is invited to join this event and experience the possibilities of a technology that has the potential to contribute solving many of the global issues. Just keep on reading and test the tangle. It may take only a few minutes. The goal of the event “Test The Tangle Text” is to persuade thousands of people within half a year to test the cryptocurrency IOTA and the Tangle…