Alessandro Buser, who the IOTA community probably knows as “AleB”, is a prolific genius who has his hands in a number of things. According to the internet, Alessandro is a senior associate and the tech lead at Blockchain Valley Ventures in Switzerland, has experience developing smart contracts (solidity) and IOTA, and is also a member of the IEN.It's rare that we get a chance to learn from an engineer who also has an investing perspective from inside a top venture capital firm, so let's not miss this opportunity to learn…

IOTA 1.5 is fast approaching…With it come a range of improvements that will transform IOTA from an exploratory research project into a mature, enterprise-ready protocol. Experimental features like trinary encoding and Winternitz One-Time Signatures (W-OTS) have been removed and replaced with carefully-selected, tried-and-tested standards. These changes will allow IOTA to realize the original promise of a DAG-based DLT protocol without the technical baggage and entry barriers introduced by early design choices.The…

Last hours to turn Black Friday into a long-term investment. This is a special day for the crypto community. For the last day of Black Friday, Ledger adds an exceptional 5% discount to the existing 40% only on Monday 30th. Enjoy 45% off the Nano X and S with the promo code "BFLASTDAY".The Ledger Nano X and Nano S hardware wallets will enable users to protect the private keys giving access to their IOTA tokens in a state-of-the-art secure chip. The Ledger hardware wallets integrate with the IOTA Trinity and the new…

After exploring the world of traditional finance in our recent piece, we now understand lending, securitization, interest rates, and the markets that arise around tradable assets. It's time to dip our toes into some of the newer innovations in the world of finance.As we established, traditional finance centers on large institutions that are supremely well capitalized. We saw that some of the largest banks in the world have more than one trillion dollars on their balance sheets. All of this money is rabidly searching for…