We’ve been explaining the foundations of IOTA for years now. Since it’s so different from blockchains, newcomers to the IOTA space have been well served by extra-careful explanations. We talked to @Schmucklos who curates the gold standard of IOTA German-language websites, iota-einsteiger-guide.de, whose mission it is to spread information about IOTA. Here he shares his most updated explanation of what IOTA actually is. Let’s get back to the basics. What is IOTA? IOTA is an open source distributed ledger technology…

Preamble This use case was created within the project Blockchain Reallabor für das Rheinische Revier, funded by the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, with the aim of forming a thematic community of interests. If you feel addressed, please contact us ([email protected]) or contact the project directly via [email protected] or https://blockchain-reallabor.de/. The original publication by the Blockchain Reallabor can be found here…

With the Coordicide specifications nearing completion, the research department has been communicating the specifics of the new protocol to the engineering department, external researchers, and the community. This communication requires simple and standard terminology for the new components. However, until recently, researchers, including myself, have mainly used potentially confusing “in house” and ad hoc names. So, several researchers and engineers began devising proper terminology. Recently, we have completed this task…

Despite the world being in the throes of a pandemic, human ingenuity and resolve continues to shine. Our cities might be locked down, yet we press on. Nature has made a comeback as humans have retreated into their homes. New Delhi is no longer plagued by smog and Twitter has been alive with wild animal sightings in uncharacteristic places. Deer in parking garages, wolves in neighborhoods, and even (apparently false) reports of porpoises enjoying newly clean Venice waterways. The idea of a green future inspired the…

Hi folks, we are back again! In GeoDB we continue working hard in order to allow users to benefit from our services as soon as possible. Within the last days we have released new versions of GeoCash for both Android and iOS devices, so we encourage you to help us to test the app by downloading it and start sharing your data in exchange for GEOs*. However, with this post we are going to present something different, that is, the proof provision protocol based on IOTA that we use to add trust to data. In GeoDB we aim…

Selv Demo — A Digital Health Passport The IOTA Foundation combined forces with the world’s largest law firm Dentons in the Financial Times’ Global Legal Hackathon to “innovate solutions to the most pressing legal, regulatory, and civil society challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis”. Together, we created a demonstration of how digital identity can give individuals control over their health data and its authenticity be guaranteed through IOTA. The architectural design of IOTA Identity has been validated by Dentons privacy…

The “chicken or egg”, also known as the causality dilemma, has been around for millennia. Aristotle first raised the idea as a rhetorical question in 4th century B.C., an idea that would be thrust into the corpus of modern philosophy 400 years later by Plutarch’s The Symposiacs. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? It’s a metaphor for situations in which a distinct cause and effect are difficult to separate. Macrobius would later deal with this paradox in 5th century A.D. before the matter was seemingly put to bed…

Since Coordicide is on the Roadmap, things becoming clearer for the community. The IOTA Foundation is focusing on Rust, a programming language for Web and IoT. Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language focused on performance and safety. It’s developed by Mozilla and backed up with sponsoring by big companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Here is a website with some companies which use Rust in production with different uses cases. These use cases are very diverse, for example, they…

Dev Status Update — May, 2020 Published by the IOTA dev team every month, this update will provide you with news and updates about our key projects! Please click here if you want to see the last status update. You can also view our complete tech roadmap here. The IOTA research department also releases a monthly update that you might want to see. Chrysalis Earlier this month, we released our strategy around Chrysalis (IOTA 1.5), a series of upgrades to the protocol that achieves enterprise-readiness before Coordicide.…

Industry 4.0 is a popular topic these days. The “fourth industrial revolution” encompasses ambitious ideas including smart manufacturing, smart cities, and the industrial internet of things. Residing at the heart of smart manufacturing, and arguably the vanguard of Industry 4.0 as a whole is the “Digital Twin” concept. We’re all familiar with the physical products that we encounter each day. Our cars, our appliances, our food. Well, all of these physical products have to come from somewhere, and those manufacturing…

How Blockchain/DLT can automate the certification of companies Preamble This use case was created within the project Blockchain Reallabor für das Rheinische Revier, funded by the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, with the aim of forming a thematic community of interests. If you feel addressed, please contact us ([email protected]), Alexander Stoffers from NextAudit or contact the project directly via [email protected] or…

In the last couple of years, the IOTA Foundation started to proactively participate in collaborative research and development efforts, funded by the EU commission. The main purpose has been twofold, to enable other parties to leverage the power of IOTA protocol in solving new problems and to identify and work on new requirements that would increase the long-term technology maturity and adoption. The trust of the IOTA Foundation as partners in such initiatives has grown since then. We are now glad to see that, following…