Published weekly as a summary of Chrysalis phase 2 updates. Please click here if you want to ready the full monthly dev status update.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 mainnet in August. The engineering team is now working on Chrysalis phase 2, or the full implementation of IOTA 1.5.  This week’s updates and statusPhase 2 Public…

IOTA Foundation has signed a strategic agreement with the South Korean Observer foundation and IOTA solution partner Tanglehub to jointly apply for smart city projects together in South Korea, South East Asia and Europe starting in 2021.With IOTA being developed open source, by the non-for profit IOTA Foundation, Observers previous experience with Smart City project applications and Tanglehubs extensive experience with IOTA, we are looking forward to enabling Smart Cities in ways that weren’t possible before. They can be…

Read the first IOTA Standardization Update here.The last Object Management Group (OMG) meeting took place in December. Among the things discussed were a number of initiatives of relevance to the IOTA community. This blog post is a brief update of the current state of OMG’s standardization work involving IOTA and the distributed ledger technology space in general.At this meeting the main items of interest were the Linked Encrypted Transaction Streams (LETS) RFP, the Disposable Self-sovereign Identity RFI and a new…

Dominic Zettl is joining IOTA as Software Engineer of the Market Adoption team. In this role Dominic will focus on the development of customer solutions, beginning with the EU-funded innovation project ENSURESEC.Dominic lives in South Germany and has been in the technology sector for around six years. He worked in a variety of projects including the fields: industrial automation, the mobility sector and also the grocery industry. His experience includes desktop and mobile development, but he mainly worked as a…