IOTA 1.5The first phase of IOTA 1.5 (also known as Chrysalis) — the mainnet’s intermediate stage before Coordicide — is complete. You can read more about the strategy for releasing Chrysalis here.The Chrysalis Phase 1 components have been deployed on the IOTA mainnet a few weeks back. Since then, the network has been running with fast confirmation times and sustaining high TPS.The IOTA Foundation is now actively working on the development of Chrysalis Phase 2 components. You can read more about the release strategy for…

Dev Status Update — September, 2020Published 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.The research department is also releasing a monthly update that you might want to see.IOTA 1.5IOTA 1.5 (also known as Chrysalis) is the mainnet’s intermediate stage before Coordicide is complete. You can read more about the strategy for releasing Chrysalis here.The Chrysalis phase 1 components were deployed to…

Hashchains for Immutable Data Storage using the IOTA Tangle Introduction In recent times the transaction fees on the major blockchains have exploded making one of their core usecases, immutable data storage, extremely unattractive. This has caused many people, including myself, to restart the search for alternative solutions. The IOTA Tangle with it’s fee-less architecture would seem to be the perfect candidate, if it was not for the fact that the nodes in the network only store data for a certain amount of time(around 30…

IOTA Research Status Update — September 2020With the easing of travel restrictions in Europe, our department was able to have its first summit since February. The primary purpose of this meeting was to review all the specifications which each group had been working on over the last few weeks. With our theoretical Coordicide research nearing its end, our research is moving into a new phase, where we are focused on the following tasks:Tying up the last few loose ends in the specifications and completing specifications…