The potential of DeFi, NFTs and Industrial IoT is now more accessible than ever before. March 24, 2021 — 2021 is already becoming a landmark year for advances in DeFi (decentralized finance) and the adoption of cryptocurrencies, with pioneering uses of blockchain technology making more of an impact than ever before. At Cartesi, our goal is to not only bridge the gap between mainstream software development and distributed ledger technologies for the millions of traditional sof

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has added IOTA as collateral on Bitfinex Borrow after it was successful in a recent social media poll. Bitfinex #Borrow is growing fast 🚀 The community has been asking for more collateral options, so now’s your chance to choose! 💰 Which collateral option would you like to see next on #BitfinexBorrow? — Bitfinex (@bitfinex) February 24, 2021 An overwhelming majority of Bitfinex’s growing community opted for IOTA

Ubirch GmbH is providing a solution to track coronavirus testing results using Iota to manage passengers’ health stats at Frankfurt Airport. It has been reported that during the coronavirus pandemic, the heightened need for various biosurveillance measures sparked interest in the relevance of privacy-enhancing technologies such as blockchain that could protect public health data amid the crisis. However, Ubirch has developed the IT infrastructure for a solution it calls the “

The Iota Foundation, the nonprofit organization, has partnered with Austria’s newest Christian Doppler Laboratory (CDL) as an industrial partner. It has been reported that the first of its kind, the laboratory is housed at the Vienna University of Technology and named the CDL Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things (CDL-BOT). However, the laboratory was officially opened in a digital ceremony on November 26 by the Austrian Federal Minister for Digital and Economic

The IOTA Foundation is collaborating with Japan’s government on a project targeting industrial infrastructure. It has been reported that the foundation has partnered on a project initiated by major Japanese maintenance companies, Best Materia and IMC. However, the project is funded by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, a national research and development agency operating under Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. The report said th

Society2, a new decentralized social media (DeSM) project, has planned to allow users to regain control of their data and enable IOTA node owners to run their own social media sites or apps. On May 5, it has been reported that Society2 highlighted that there has been no mainstream adoption of decentralized social media so far. As such, Society2’s team has started to work on an IOTA-based DeSM framework to enable a new standard in privacy, control, and interoperability of data