#coordicide

IOTA Inching Closer to Coordicide, Launches the DevNet and a New Digital Assets Framework

In what has been described as “experiencing the future today,” IOTA has launched the IOTA 2.0 DevNet and a new Digital Assets Framework to begin experimenting with the community. IOTA 2.0 DevNet As per an update on June 2, IOTA is moving closer to a fully decentralized network without a super-node called the Coordinator. FollowingRead More

IOTA and Horizen Partner to Maximize IOTA Oracles Adoption by New Blockchains

Horizen, a technology platform that enables businesses and developers to create their public or private blockchains, announced a partnership with IOTA. The partnership will see the newly launched IOTA Oracles’ functionality and introduce oracle capabilities to the Horizen sidechain and scaling protocol, Zendoo.  IOTA Partnership Plans IOTA is a cryptocurrency built to operate as theRead More

Digital Tokens Coming to IOTA, Chrysalis Mainnet Launch in March 2021

The IOTA Foundation is releasing the official protocol Request for Comment (RFC) for the Digital Asset Framework. It has also activated asset tokenization on the Coordicide Testnet (GoShimmer), an update on Feb 18 shows. Chrysalis Mainnet Launch is in March Coupled with changes made on Chrysalis, an intermediate step before Coordicide, the IOTA network isRead More

IOTA (MIOTA) Inching Closer to Complete Decentralization

Jakub Cech, the Director of Engineering at the IOTA Foundation, on Jan 14, released the development update detailing progress made in December 2020. IOTA Smart Contracts and Chrysalis In their report, the Chrysalis testnet and the pre-alpha version of IOTA smart contracts were made public in December. Hornet has since been running on this testnetRead More

IOTA Foundation: Chrysalis Development Positive, Efforts on Functionality Audit

The second phase of Chrysalis is progressing well, according to the latest update from the IOTA Foundation on Dec 11. Chrysalis Phase 2 Chrysalis is the intermediate stage before Coordicide.  Here, IOTA will eliminate the central coordinator for a fully decentralized, infinitely scalable, and secure distributed ledger network powering the internet of things and the nextRead More

Senior IOTA Researcher: Coordicide Will Not Fail

In a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) session on Oct 14 co-hosted by core members of the IOTA Foundation including Serguei Popov, Dominik Schiener, and David Sønstebø, Billy Sanders–the Senior Research Scientist, relayed the team’s development confidence stating that Coordicide implementation will be a success. Coordicide Decentralizes IOTA The session was all about Coordicide launch and the challenges thusRead More

The IOTA Foundation Is Trialing Smart Contracts

The IOTA Foundation has unveiled three Proof-of-Concept (POC) smart contracts and a set of tools for developers to explore the smart contracting capability of the blockless, feeless, flexible, and infinitely scalable Internet-of-Things (IoT)-focused platform. IOTA Is Building The Pre-alpha release of IOTA’s (POC) smart contract on Oct 2 is out of necessity.  As a technological development, itRead More

IOTA Foundation Implements a Reputation System Against Sybil Attacks

The IOTA Foundation–the non-profit promoting the blockless ledger system focusing on the under-explored but yet critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) and the machine economy, has implemented a reputation system used to identify trust nodes and arrest Sybil attack sfollowing the launch of Mana on Sept 28.  The IOTA Reputation System ahead of Coordicide Mana is a vital,Read More