Untangle Care — Milestone #4 The 4th and last milestone of the “Untangle Care” project was concluded. With this article we would like to share first and foremost, a summary of the tools built and that are now openly available for anyone interested. In the second part of the article, we provide a more detailed explanation of the project goals, achievements, challenges, and next steps. Recapping, the goal of “Untangle Care” was to develop IOTA-based tools to help healthcare data to flow between citizen-based solutions…

Autonomous Drone Delivery and Charging System — powered by the IOTA Industry Marketplace A future goal of the Open Marketplace is to provide information about charging stations for autonomous vehicles like drones for free. They just need to pay for the service. It still sounds a bit like science fiction, but the development of drones and flight taxis has long been underway. Drones should soon become part of everyday life when it comes to transportation. But there is still a lot to do. Packages come with the drone,…

Release Strategy for Chrysalis (IOTA 1.5)One of the IOTA Foundation’s primary roles is to define and deliver on a development roadmap that moves IOTA towards production-readiness and adoption. In a complex and ever-changing ecosystem like DLT, having a clearly defined vision — and strategy on how to get there — is the key to success.The IOTA mainnet has been operational since 2016 and so defining a new engineering strategy involves adapting our assumptions to industry…

IOTA Research Status Update - May 2020The past month has been incredibly productive for us as we tie up the last few details around the Coordicide specifications. Handing over the Coordicide specifications to development will be a major milestone for our team. We appreciate everyone’s interest in our work and patience throughout this process. Below are specific updates highlighting progress in each area.GoShimmer Implementation. The GoShimmer team has been focused on the integration of FPC with the value Tangle. A major…

For quite a while I’ve been actively working on a Sensor Tangle Gateway using the IOTA technology. This technologie enables us to store data secure, distributed and permissionless without any fees on a decentralized DAG, the so called Tangle. This DAG is a kind of Blockchain but without blocks and a chain. But it provides the same previous mentioned advantages without the commonly known issues like huge power consumpion or super expensive transaction fees. The Sensor Tangle Gateway (STG) is intended to connect the current…

Introduction written by @Carpincho Dem, the new head of IEN. Article also inspired by Carpincho. Just as Apollodorus witnessed and transmitted the debate about Eros reflected in Plato’s Symposium, yesterday I had the chance to witness some IEN members discussing Data Privacy, DLTs and social media in our Discord server. Among those members were Ben Royce, who is starting Society2 as an attempt to provide a framework for decentralized social media. The following is what was discussed between our resident social media…

As we just finished rebooting our network, this little post should serve as an overview of the current status of the IEN. The rebooting process involved cleaning up our member roll to get rid of those who were inactive in order to start with a lean network. In terms of numbers, the IEN went from 160 members to 57, distributed among 22 countries worldwide. Geographical distribution of members: Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Czech Republic Finland Germany Italy India…

Do you want to learn more about open source? No Problem! We challenge you and ourselves to discover and learn more about open-source technologies and create a resume and share the results! The Challenges Our first challenge is to set up and establish a community-driven project. That means in short, the community can decide, what we do next. To reach that, we need a community that wants to lead and a core team that can handle the requests. With the challenges, we search for talented people for the core team and give the…

I want to thank my colleagues in the IOTA Foundation who provided input and feedback for this article. In particular, Eric Hop, who headed the Qubic project and now joins IOTA Smart Contracts, and Jake Cahill, who is responsible for most of the wording. IOTA Smart Contracts is an ongoing effort by the IOTA Foundation. The goal of this article is to inform the community about what we are doing and where we are heading with IOTA Smart Contracts. It also presents an opportunity for the community to begin contributing to…

Pickert and the IOTA Foundation jointly demonstrate the power of zero defects and digital twins for manufacturing. Supply Chain tracking is one way to demonstrate the benefits of IOTA’s ability to store information about digital assets in a secure and open infrastructure. The IOTA Tangle guarantees not only the immutability of data, but also the sharing of information across customers and partners in the value chain. One example is the Trade Logistics Information Pipeline (TLIP), which is set up to create an…

At the IOTA Foundation, we have always celebrated and supported the many achievements of the IOTA community. By its very nature, the health of any project in the DLT space has as much to do with those consuming the code as it does with those maintaining it. Only through an active and supportive ecosystem innovating alongside the IOTA Foundation will we see IOTA’s broad adoption and achieve our vision of a Machine Economy. To further our collaborative efforts and work towards this objective, the IOTA Foundation, together…

At the IOTA Foundation, we have always celebrated and supported the many achievements of the IOTA community. By its very nature, the health of any project in the DLT space has as much to do with those consuming the code as it does with those maintaining it. Only through an active and supportive ecosystem innovating alongside the IOTA Foundation will we see IOTA’s broad adoption and achieve our vision of a Machine Economy. To further our collaborative efforts and work towards this objective, the IOTA Foundation, together…