IOTA Presents Chrysalis Mainnet Update Scheduled for Next Week

IOTA posted on Twitter on August 10, about delivering an upgrade of the Chrysalis mainnet in the coming week. As per the tweet, IOTA 1.5 update means an entirely new experience for users utilizing the IOTA network now. In the past, users were a bit skeptical about IOTA’s successes considering the delay of this scheduled upgrade. However, user's agree that this excellent step into achieving the set goals by the IOTA Foundation was worth the wait. What Users Can Expect…

Worst Performing Coins in the Top 100 – 2020 Edition

Good Year for Most, Rough for Some 2020, so far, has been a sort of balanced year for cryptocurrencies. One might have expected the pandemic would slow things down, especially with the market crash we saw in March, but that hasn’t been the case so far. Overall, the market has done pretty well with constant stability, increasing user base, and growing innovation. But the same isn’t the case for all of the networks out there. While most enjoyed the increased…

The Rise and Fall of IOTA (mIOTA) – A Bittersweet Story

IOTA - A Brief History IOTA is a cryptographic protocol that runs on a unique form of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), significantly different from most cryptocurrency projects. It is different for one vital reason; IOTA doesn’t run on a blockchain! As we have tried to iterate multiple times, blockchain, the distributed database technology, is just a subset of DLT. So then, what kind of database technology does IOTA use? IOTA was developed and initiated by David Sønstebø, Dominik Schiener, Sergey…