Tagged: iota

April 8, 2025 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Twinstake has joined the IOTA Genesis Validator Set, which is described as an institutional-grade staking solution for a “secure future.” When the IOTA Foundation selected its Genesis Validators for IOTA Rebased, it wasn’t just seeking network participants—it was curating what it claims is the “bedrock”… Read More

August 6, 2024 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain ecosystem IOTA has been recognized as being Shari’a-compliant. According to a note from IOTA, the Cambridge Institute of Islamic Finance’s certification states that the IOTA token fulfills all accepted Shari’a principles and standards, including those practiced by the Islamic financial services industry. IOTA reports… Read More

July 4, 2024 @ 4:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tokenization platform Tokeny says it has added IOTA EVM to its list of supported distributed ledger technologies. The IOTA Foundation supports a blockchain that is “open, feeless, and scalable distributed ledger, designed to support frictionless data and value transfer.” The ecosystem aims to emerge the… Read More

July 3, 2024 @ 3:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

IOTA, a blockchain ecosystem, has funded the I3-Lab at Imperial College London. IOTA has provided £1 million to support the research facility. According to the firm, the college is also providing additional funding. IOTA seeks to advance highly scalable distributed ledger technology (DLT) for Web3… Read More

June 13, 2024 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain firm IOTA has been selected to participate in the European Blockchain Sandbox. According to a blog post, IOTA will be participating in the Sandbox with its Web3 identification product. IOTA says the solution tokenizes all kinds of identification processes, enabling identity verification in Web3 environments… Read More

October 3, 2023 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following IOTA’s ShimmerEVM update last week, the developers have are introducing IOTA 2.0. After a period of research and prototyping, the IOTA Foundation “presents IOTA 2.0, a protocol that encapsulates its vision of digital autonomy for everyone.” The entire architecture of IOTA has reportedly “been… Read More

July 27, 2023 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The IOTA Foundation and Shimmer teams have been working diligently on various aspects of their respective projects to enhance functionality, research new possibilities, and engage with the community. These advancements and collaborations demonstrate “the commitment of the IOTA ecosystem to drive innovation, foster community engagement,… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOTA, the non-profit organization driving the development of an open, feeless, and highly scalable distributed ledger technology (DLT) for Web3 applications and digital economies, announces the launch of the ShimmerEVM test chain on the Shimmer testnet. With IOTA launching its incentivized staging network Shimmer last… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Commission has selected 5 blockchain providers as part of the ongoing European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) initiative. The EBSI has been in the works for several years now as the EU aims to leverage blockchain technology to improve or add digital services to benefit the population… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of IOTA are announcing the start of IOTA staking. With the release of Firefly 1.3.0, the staking functionality is “fully” integrated and IOTA holders can begin staking their IOTAs “in return for SMR, the native token of the Shimmer network and ASMB, the… Read More

September 7, 2021 @ 10:47 am By JD Alois  |  

IOTA, a scalable, feeless, and decentralized distributed ledger technology, has been selected for the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), a project organized the by the European Union. Dominik Schiener, co-founder and Chairman of the IOTA Foundation, said they are very excited about the selection in… Read More

June 11, 2021 @ 1:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AI and machine learning network Fetch.ai will be working with IOTA, in order to connect Autonomous Economic Agents to IOTA network’s rich data sources. As mentioned in a blog post by Fetch.ai, dated June 10, 2021, for the first time ever, this draws “a clear,… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 1:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dominik Schiener, Co-founder at IOTA, which claims it has “re-engineered the principles” of existing distributed ledger technology (DLT) to offer a fee-less, open-source, secure data and financial exchange protocol, has revealed that one of the biggest upgrades in IOTA’s history is “right in front of us.”… Read More

February 19, 2021 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The IOTA Foundation has teamed up with Curv Custody in order to expand the IOTA Token Ecosystem. The IOTA developers noted that they’re pleased to confirm that the IOTA token will “soon be available” on Curv’s “industrial-grade” digital asset custody platform. With IOTA’s planned Chrysalis… Read More

April 4, 2020 @ 10:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The questions surrounding whether certain crypto assets qualify as financial securities is becoming increasingly important within the blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) sector. There are now several entities within the digital asset sector that are focusing on bringing greater understanding to this pressing issue…. Read More

March 12, 2020 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology and permissionless ecosystem development, announced on Thursday it has formed a partnership TradeMark East Africa with a mission to improve East African trade and global competitiveness using IOTA’s ledger technology. According to IOTA, TradeMark East… Read More

February 15, 2020 @ 10:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bZX, a leading Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol has reportedly been exploited. Although the exact amount of Ether (ETH) lost due to the exploit has not been confirmed, Kyle Kristner, co-founder at bZx, says “a portion of ETH [was] lost.” As reported by The… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 1:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IOTA Foundation, a non-profit entity behind the ongoing development of the leading IOTA distributed network, confirmed on February 13, 2020, that electronic funds belonging to the users of the Trinity wallet software had been stolen. The Germany-headquartered organization revealed on Wednesday that it had turned… Read More

July 14, 2019 @ 3:00 pm By Will McDonough  |  

While Facebook has stolen the show with news of Libra and its cadre of notable brand partners, the community also values the many other household brands that have pioneered with blockchain. Just a few short years ago, distributed-ledger technology was the domain of a small… Read More

July 2, 2019 @ 1:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology and permissionless ecosystem development, announced on Tuesday the launch of its new secure and user-friendly software wallet for IOTA tokens, Trinity, for mobile and desktop. According to IOTA, Trinity offers a host of new features that… Read More