We’re happy to be able to announce that after getting Joachim Taiber as advisor to the IOTA Foundation, that we’ve now officially partnered with the International Transportation Innovation Center (ITIC), to collaborate with them to work on autonomous vehicle testbeds. In this blog post, we’ll delve a bit deeper into what we’re doing here, that further fosters the IOTA ecosystem, but also goes beyond distributed ledgers alone.Powering the future of Mobility Testbeds enable the incubation of cutting-edge technology, so…

Oliver Mulherin is an software developer with experience in the Internet-of-Things(IoT) space. His work has primarily focused on developing industrial solutions using both software and hardware, additionally has experience with artificial intelligence and the simulation of complex systems. Oliver holds a bachelor’s degree in Computing and Software Systems from the University of Melbourne. While at university Oliver worked on AI projects ranging from general game playing to language detection using LSTMs. His work in the…

It would be impossible to list every one of the milestones, significant events or other achievements that took place in the IOTA cosmos this year. However, here is a nonexhaustive cheatsheet of some noteworthy things that transpired in 2017.2017 has been an incredibly eventful year for the IOTA project. Milestones have been reached, records breached, and numerous new people have joined the team. There has been an explosive growth in our community and independent projects utilizing IOTA. A metric that captures…

Background During an attack on the IOTA network in October, some funds were found to be at risk of theft, due to users re-using their private keys. The IOTA team took the decision to protect IOTA token holders by taking those funds which were at risk into temporary custody through a snapshot. Once the attack was stopped, the team worked on setting up a process for reclaiming the funds, and sending them back to the rightful owners. This process of receiving and validating the claims has been understandably complicated and…