IOTA 1.5 slated for launch next week
The distributed ledger technology platform built to support the internet of things, IOTA, has just announced that it will be launching “Chrysalis,” or IOTA 1.5, next week. The tweet declaring the upgrade says Chrysalis will bring significant performance, usability, and reliability upgrades.
TMForum launches new business ecosystem utilizing IOTA and R3 Corda
TMForum, the global industry association for telecom providers has announced the launch of Mega Catalyst which leverages the IOTA tangle to provide an immutable data record of physical tracking devices.
Following a wallet hack, the IOTA Foundation hits turbulence
The past year was a pretty good one for IOTA. Until last month, when the nascent crypto asset project was impacted by a significant hack event that brought the network to its knees. Can it recover?
Investing in blockchain alternatives Pt III: Burst – the IOTA killer?
Burst has a lot to prove as a self-claimed contender for a globally adopted form of currency that talks an even bigger game than IOTA, Hashgraph and Nano with feeless transactions *and* “infinitely scalable” transactions per second.
Investing in blockchain alternatives Pt I: Hedera Hashgraph
Hashgraph is distributed ledger technology built on its own version of a DAG, similar to IOTA, for the age of the Internet of Things. But is this really the "blockchain killer"?
IOTA tease information of ‘Project Q’ ahead of launch
Distributed ledger technology-based company [IOTA is continuing ](news/iota-trials-tangle-technology-with-smart-energy-company/)to expand its business with the release of its highly anticipated ‘Project Q’. The project has been the subject of a great deal of speculation and interest in the cryptocurrency community after the leaders of IOTA began to allude to it in a series of conversations.
IOTA Price Analysis – A Tangled Skein
IOTA is designed to usher in machine-to-machine payments and data transfer in the Internet-of-Things economy. The new protocol promises to fix the scalability issues that ail blockchain technology with fast, zero-fee, quantum-immune, and secure transactions. IOTA was founded in 2015, by entrepreneurs David Sønstebø and Dominik Schiener, and mathematicians Sergey Ivancheglo and Serguei Popov. Ivancheglo is also the creator of NXT, a Proof of Stake coin. In 2017, IOTA opened a German-based non-profit foundation focused on research, development, education, and standardization of the economy of things. The foundation recently added Dr. Rolf Werner, a Fujitsu business executive, while IOTA recently added Porsche to its growing list of partnerships and corporate interests.
IOTA trials Tangle technology with smart energy company
Following a successful previous collaboration, IOTA and one of Europe's leading smart energy company's InnoEnergy have come together to spur on innovation in the energy sector.
The tangle
In this paper we analyze the technology used as a backbone of iota (a cryptocurrency for Internet-of-Things industry). This technology naturally succeeds the blockchain technology as its next evolutionary step and comes out with features required for micropayments conducted on a global scale.
