Enterprise-Grade Wallet Infrastructure for Builders TL;DR: IOTA integrates with Turnkey, giving builders enterprise-grade wallet infrastructure. Developers can now embed non-custodial wallets without seed phrases, automate transactions with policy-based signing, and balance UX with security. Developers building on IOTA can now integrate secure, policy-driven wallet infrastructure directly into their applications thanks to IOTA’s new integration with Turnkey, a private key management platform.This means less time…

Welcoming Karen O’Brien and Manuel Vigilius TL;DR: IOTA strengthens global communications with the appointments of Karen O’Brien as CMO and Manuel Vigilius as executive communications advisor and interim Head of Communications for TWIN. As the IOTA Foundation expands its role in unleashing the potential of global trade by building an open, trusted digital infrastructure – and enabling the tokenization of over $10 trillion in real-world value – we are pleased to announce two senior appointments that will enhance our…

Post-Quantum Security and Public Verifiable Credentials TL;DR: IOTA Identity 1.7 Beta ensures credentials issued today stay secure in the future. It introduces post-quantum and hybrid signatures for Verifiable Credentials, developed with the LINKS Foundation. It also adds on-chain public credentials for transparency and streamlined key handling, making digital identity more efficient, interoperable, and ready for real-world adoption. In the future, computers that use the laws of quantum mechanics could break much of…

New releases. New integrations. Real-world traction.Across R&D, adoption, and ecosystem growth, we’ve pushed IOTA closer to becoming the global infrastructure that brings the real world on-chain. Here’s a look at what we built, shipped, and scaled over the past quarter.Research & DevelopmentQ3 has been a productive quarter for our R&D department, with significant progress across multiple initiatives.Starfish Consensus Mechanism: In Q3, we successfully deployed the non-sharded version of Starfish onto Devnet. This…

Building a Web3 Identity Solution  TL;DR: The European Blockchain Sandbox has concluded its second cohort, featuring IOTA Foundation’s Tokenized Know Your Customer Solution with IDnow, walt.id, and Bloom Wallet. The Sandbox provided key lessons on compliant and privacy-preserving identity verification in Web3, including the use of off-chain verification, soulbound tokens, and GDPR-aligned wallet and node practices. We’ve completed our participation in the European Blockchain Sandbox, a three-year initiative by the…

10 Years, 10 Million Tokens, Our Thanks TL;DR: We're celebrating IOTA’s 10th anniversary by distributing 10 million IOTA tokens among our community through airdrops, staking rewards, raffles, and community engagement. Just a handful of blockchain projects have lived to celebrate their 10th anniversary. In October, IOTA joins this exclusive circle. Since its first announcement on Bitcointalk in October 2015, IOTA has pioneered a distributed ledger architecture designed for scalability, decentralization, and real-world…

Building Blocks for Digital Trust TL;DR: The IOTA Trust Framework is an open-source suite of products that bridges the gap between complex blockchain technology and real business problems. From identity and notarization to tokenization and gasless transactions, it gives developers and organizations ready-to-use building blocks for secure, compliant, and scalable applications, all anchored to the high-performance IOTA protocol. After more than a decade of building digital solutions with businesses from across the…

TL;DR: The U.S. is developing digital asset regulation with the GENIUS Act establishing stablecoin frameworks. IOTA contributed feedback on Senate and CFTC initiatives, advocating for innovation-friendly rules that distinguish utility tokens from securities, support DeFi, and ensure proportionate compliance. European MiCA offers clarity but highlights complexity risks in implementation. 2025 is shaping up to be a turning point for digital asset regulation in the United States. Although President Donald Trump has…

IOTA Foundation to Collaborate with GLEIF TL;DR: The IOTA Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to explore collaboration on trusted digital identities for businesses. The partnership will investigate how combining GLEIF capabilities with IOTA tools, such as the Identity Framework and platforms like TWIN, can be utilized to create verifiable, on-chain trust for business interactions and trade networks. Every business, whether a small local…

Unlocking $2.5T Through Tokenization TL;DR: By building the infrastructure for digitized trade and finance, IOTA is addressing the multi-trillion dollar global trade finance gap. Our partnership with Salus brings transparency to critical mineral supply chains. Alongside TLIP’s work in East African trade and Realize’s focus on tokenization, these initiatives show how IOTA enables trusted, real-time exchange of data and value, replacing fragmented, paper-based systems with secure digital infrastructure. Global trade and…

New Online Edition of our Hackathon Series TL;DR: Registration opens today for Moveathon Europe, which runs online from October 20 to November 16, bringing together builders to create real-world Web3 solutions in finance, identity, and supply chains, with $150,000+ in prizes across five tracks and bonus challenges. In June, we wrapped up the first IOTA Moveathon, where builders across the APAC region brought fresh ideas to life. The next chapter begins today, with registration opening for Moveathon Europe, at…

Flexible and Verifiable Trust Networks TL;DR: IOTA Hierarchies is an open-source product for cryptographically verifiable trust delegation across people, organizations, and devices. It allows entities to define a set of properties, delegate authority, and validate trust relations both on-chain and off-chain. Now released in Alpha, IOTA Hierarchies provides a scalable, industry-agnostic way to model who is trusted, for what, and by whom, enabling secure, transparent, and revocable credential verification across sectors. …