research-and-development

The IOTA research department recently gathered for one week of focused discussion and planning around some of the most critical aspects of the organizational roadmap, including Coordicide and attack analysis. This blog post summarizes the…

In today’s blog post, we’ll have a closer look at the journey of random walkers. Similar to one of our previous posts on mixing time in the Tangle, we are interested in understanding how long random walkers have to walk to select a tip and,…

The stress tests over the past few weeks probably have not escaped (m)any of you. Be it due to the numbers they produced, or the discussions surrounding them. The IOTA Foundation considers stress tests to be an indispensable part of the…

Hey everyone, sorry for the small delay in getting this IOTA Qubic status update out. We will still call it the February 3rd status update because I did not have the heart to ask Sabri to redo this gorgeous image. Did you know that Sabri…

In any cryptocurrency, transactions are linked to one another using hashes. This unalterable relationship endows the set of transactions with a natural mathematical structure called a partial order. In this post, we discuss partial orders…