IOTA Newsletter #22 — Introducing Pollen, Nectar & Honey, Pollen & Hornet releases, UiO & Lidbot collaborations & more.Introducing Pollen: the First Decentralized Testnet for IOTA 2.0Pollen marks the beginning of the world’s first truly decentralized, scalable, and fee-less Distributed Ledger, which has been IOTA’s promise since day one. Pollen is the first phase in IOTA’s three-part release strategy that will culminate in our coordinator-less, production-ready…

Last year, the IOTA Foundation released an official permanode solution for storing all IOTA transactions, forever.Throughout this time, we have been gathering your feedback and using it to build an improved version with exciting new features. We’re excited to announce that, as of today, our Permanode solution is now in Alpha and ported over to Rust. Why we built Chronicle Nodes in an IOTA network are free to remove old transactions whenever they like. While this freedom is good for node owners, it can present a problem…

This month, we were honored to release Pollen, the first testnet version of IOTA 2.0 to include Fast Probabilistic Consensus, the consensus mechanism for the post-Coordicide IOTA. Work continues on the finalization and further integration of our research specifications into future updates, with a major milestone this month being the finalized version of two types of mana implementations.Below are the updates from several of our research groups.GoShimmer Implementation. Last week, we released Pollen, our first fully…

Last few months I have been very busy with bringing AION to the next level, the level on which it can actually be used and becomes a product. So far the progress is steady but still away from fully finished. As always with new projects is that during the development you come across some issues that require you to rethink parts of your solution. (That this happened was anticipated!) For AION this was rethinking the importance of timewarps. As discussed in a previous article is that timewarps are a little bit more…