IOTA 2.0 (Coordicide)

TL;DR: We provide a detailed overview of the current status and next steps for IOTA 2.0. Current efforts mainly focus on optimizing the consensus and communication layer to make the protocol more efficient and less complex. Next steps…

We are pleased to share the following update from our research groups. The department remains focused on improving the IOTA 2.0 protocol implementation on the DevNet. This month, our update introduces two new groups: the Consensus Group and…

TL;DR: We describe what we learned from the IOTA 2.0 DevNet, focusing on the consensus mechanism. We explain how we can improve the protocol by streamlining the FPC voting process via a mechanism we call On Tangle FPC on a set (OTFPC). …

TL;DR: The IOTA NFT marketplace, developed by the IOTA community, launches today on the IOTA 2.0 DevNet. Currently available in test mode, the IOTA NFT marketplace is a feeless alternative to the expensive and energy wasting approaches…

This post aims to briefly introduce the research specifications which we made available with the release of the IOTA 2.0 DevNet (Nectar). The specifications can be found here. Their purpose is to carefully explain the current state of the…