IOTΛ Archive
The IOTA Ecosystem Tracker

List of industrial and institutional interest in IOTA

Alphabetical list of unique entities with a known interest in IOTA, including official partnerships/collaborators, entities engaged in joint projects with the IOTA Foundation, known IOTA Data Marketplace participants, entities that developed one or more IOTA-based proof-of-concept and academic references from academic institutions.

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Finland

Academia

2019/09/09

A member of the Aalto University publishes his MaS thesis titled "A privacy-preserving approach to grid balancing using scheduled electric vehicle charging", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/25

Members of the Aalto University, Finland, publish a paper on "Decentralized Beacons: Attesting the Ground Truth of Blockchain State for Constrained IoT Devices", referencing IOTA.

2019/02/04

The Aalto University offers a position as "First Stage Researcher", "focuses on the development of SOFIE Framework components, which will interact with blockchains and/or IoT platforms, and/or the development of smart contracts using Ethereum, Iota and/or other suitable distributed ledgers".

2018/02/13
IOTA is briefly being mentioned in a document of a professor from Aalto University.

$1.01 bn

2,200

Norway

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

ABB Norway participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$93 m

450

Taiwan

Electronics

2018/11/12

Aaeon collaborates with BiiLabs, supposedly on the TangleID digital citizen card for the City of Taipei.

$176 m

1,600

Sweden

IT

2018/01

Acando joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$34.85 bn

442,000

Germany

Consulting

2017/05/30

Accenture invites IOTA to its Accenture Open Talks 2017

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which Accenture is also a member.

$n.a.

50

Germany

IT

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/10/15

Markus Soppa, Managing Director of Accessec showcases Accessec's IOTA-based identification and authentication solution and explains why it is superior to traditional certificate-based solutions.

2019/08/21

Accessec updates its website, further describing its IOTA-based car wallet demonstrators.

2019/07/12

Accessec shares a link to an article published in a German mobility industry magazine, explaining the downsides of public key infrastructure in automotive security systems, and the benefits of its IOTA-enabled automotive cyber system.

2019/07/09

Accessec presented its IOTA CarWallet at the 5th VDI Conference on Cyber Security for Vehicles.

2019/06/26

Accessec GmbH is looking for a C-developer interested in IOTA-based industrial security and identity solutions for the automotive sector.

2019/06/18

Accessec GmbH publishes an article on how "digital patients can obtain privacy" through IOTA in a german magazine.

2019/05/23

Alexander Renz (IF) and Markus Soppa, the CEO of Accessec are invited as speakers to the 14th Handelsblat Jahrestagung, which is moderated by the EDAG Engineering GmbH CEO, to talk about "Blockchain and Mobility" and "Utility vehicles and new mobility concepts für blockchain".

2019/05/19

Sven Feuchtmüller from Accessec presents at the IOTA Meetup Karlsruhe.

2019/05/09

Accessec GmbH presents IOTA at the Digital Farming Conference 2019.

2019/02/28

Accessec releases an integrated IOTA Tangle-based car wallet and point of sale demonstrator.

2019/02/11

Accessec is looking for a Security Analyst and Penetration Test expert, interested to work on IOTA-based projects.

2018/12/22

Accessec attends a workshop of the Peace Innovation Foundation on "securing DLT-based ID-system for humanitarian workers" with their partners from Motorola, IOTA, BiiLabs, B4P Solutions and Mobaxe.

2018/12/05

Sven Feuchtmüller from Accessec attends the IOTA Torino Meetup to talk about "IOTA and AI".

2018/11/20

Accessec holds an internal presentation, showcasing their car wallet and point-of-sale solution to the whole company.

2018/11/06

Sven Feuchtmüller from Accessec shares an update on the progress of the Accessec car wallet implementation and also provides a glimpse into their development of a physical chip (in collaboration with Infineon) to store IOTA seeds.

2018/11/01

Sebastian Rohr, CEO of Accessec, reveals on Twitter that his development team is about to finalize their car wallet for one of the major german luxury automotive brands that will be released before christmas.

2018/11/31

Sven Feuchtmüller from Accessec will talk about their car wallet on the IOTA Berlin meetup on November 6th.

2018/10/27

Sebastian Rohr, CTO of Accessec gives a lecture about the application of IOTA in different industries at the "International VDI Workshop on 3rd Gen Blockchain Technologies"

2018/09/20

Markus Soppa from Accessec GmbH gives a talk about "eWallets, based on IOTA" at the Bayern Innovativ event

2018/09/12

Sebastian Rohr (CEO) and Markus Soppa (Research Consultant) from Accessec GmbH explain the advantages of IOTA over first generation blockchain architectures in industrial use cases in an extensive article in a professional journal "Computer Automation" (german) in its safety and security section

2018/09/05

Accessec explains the advantages of IOTA in a two-page article in a professional journal "Funkschau" focused on mobile communication

2018/08/05

Accessec tweets about their appreciation being listed as a close IOTA partner in an partnership infographic

2018/06/05

Accessec AG tweets that they are looking into IOTA carwallets and IDoT

2018/05/16

Sebastian Rohr, CEO of Accessec gives a lecture about IOTA in regard to "Industrial IT Security and IT Security for Vehicles"

2018/04/19

Sebastian Rohr, CEO of Accessec gives a lecture about IOTA and its security aspects at the 2018 Hannover trade fair

2017/10/26

Sebastian Rohr, CEO of Accessec holds a presentation on "Secure Identities for IoT", referencing IOTA at the Chapter Conference 2017.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/04/01

Actiware Development GmbH tweets from the Hannover Trade Fair 2019 about its "blockchain by design" module, showing IOTA as one of the available modules.

$5 m

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2018/09/20

Robin Lehmann from Adasens Automotive GmbH gives a talk about "IOTA, Qubic and beyond" at the Bayern Innovativ event

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

IT

2019/04/25

A patent application filed by Aisa Innotech Inc is published, describing a “Method and system for generating individual microdata“, referencing IOTA.

$3 bn

12,500

Germany

Other

2019/07/02

Lidbot (TwoIoT) publishes a video, mentioning that "40+ clients are waiting for sensor completion", as well as further proof-of-concepts with American Airlines, Festo and Alba Suez.

$44.55 bn

126,600

USA

Mobility

2019/07/02

Lidbot (TwoIoT) publishes a video, mentioning that "40+ clients are waiting for sensor completion", as well as further proof-of-concepts with American Airlines, Festo and Alba Suez.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2017/05/04

Members of the Air Force Research Laboratory publish a paper on "Practical comparison of distributed ledger technologies for IoT", analyzing different DLTS, IOTA being one of them.

$1.26 bn

1,600

Norway

Energy

2017/2018

Agder Energi joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/08/27

The CEO of Aiisma once again thanks the IOTA team for its time and notes, jointly with Aiisma's with the CMO, that "we will be working with IOTA & using it’s technology".

2019/08/22

Ankit Chaudhari, CEO of Aiisma thanks the IOTA team and notes that "IOTA happens to be an ideal platform for what Aiisma is looking to build.".

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Academia

2019/11/20

Angelo Capossele (IF), Andreas Penzkofer (IF) and Sebastian Mueller of the Aix-Marseille Université (CNRS) publish a paper titled "Robustness and efficiency of leaderless probabilistic consensus protocols within Byzantine infrastructures", based on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/12/31

Akita publishes step-by-step instructions to "connect robots, energy providers, governments or basically any device" with its "IOTA Payment Module".

2019/09/27

Akita publishes an update on its IOTA-based machine-to-machine demonstrator.

2019/07/02

Akita publishes a live demonstrator for a machine economy.

2019/06/27

Akita launches a “VirtualLab” linking to physical robots, demonstrating an IOTA-powered supply chain in a machine-to-machine economy.

2019/04/18

Akita publishes an article about their "Smart Machine Agent prototypes and first physical Use Cases" based on IOTA.

2019/04/07

Akita Blockchain Solutions posts a video and a link to their presentation at the Smart Dubai Blockchain Challenge.

2019/04/02

Akita Blockchain Solutions presents an IOTA-based proof of concept, a "car [that] makes an automated, real time micro-transactions to a parking space based on the exact parking duration. Afterwards the parking space pays tax to a virtual government machine wallet" at the Smart Dubai Blockchain Challenge.

2019/03/14

Akita Blockchain Solutions has been selected as one of 20 apllicants from 700 submissions to present their IOTA based M2M proof of concept at the Dubai Blockchain Challenge.

2019/02/21

Akita Blockchain Solutions tweets about their latest integration of generic smart devices with a dedicated IOTA machine wallets.

2019/02/12

IamPass, one of Akita Blockchain Solutions' IOTA-based projects is nominated for the German Data Center Award.

2019/02/11

Akita Blockchain Solutions details its plans for its upcoming machine economy proof of concept.

2019/01/14

Akita Blockchain Solutions announces an IOTA community meetup in Singapore.

2018/11/08

Akita Blockchain Solutions announces a robot that is buying its own energy and sells services to other machines to be released in january 2019.

2018/05/22

Akita Blockchain Solutions publishes further information on the IOTA Lab Singapore

2018/05/22

Akita Blockchain Solutions opens an IOTA Lab in Singapore

2018/03/19

The Head of the CEO office of Fujitsu Central Europe, Kai Pasing, marks Akita Blockchain Solutions in an IOTA related tweet

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

IT

2018/11/19

Wave App is among the winners of the Alastria Open Call hackathon with its IOTA PoC.

2018/11/01

GeoDB reports of their participation in the Alastria Open Call and its evaluation of IOTA.

2018/06/01

A digital transformation manager from Telefonica tweets about the advantages of IOTA from the Alastria HackDay

2018/05/23

Alastria hosts a hackathon on IOTA, BigChainDB or uRaiden.

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

Other

2019/10/03

A patent application filed by Ali Group S.r.l. Carpigiani is published, describing “Machines and systems for producing liquid or semi-liquid food products”, referencing IOTA.

$39,89 bn

66,421

China

IT

2019/04/05

A patent application filed by Alibaba Group is published, describing a “Stopping charging system and method, apparatus, electronic equipment”, referencing IOTA.

2018/10/27

Representatives from Alibaba Cloud, a subsidary of Alibaba, are invited as speakers to the E-Shelter event alongside Dominik Schiener (IF) and Rolf Werner (IF).

2018/06/11

Alibaba Cloud, a subsidary of Alibaba, publishes an article, explaining the advantages of IOTA over other DLTs

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Energy

2017/2018

Allego joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$1.91 bn

5,621

Netherlands

Energy

2018/06/28

Alliander publishes a detailed article describing their proof-of-concept for a smart energy meter that publishes data via IOTAs Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM)

2017/09/07

Alliander starts working on their proof of concept for a smart energy meter publishing data to MAM streams.

$n.a.

n.a.

Belgium

Policy

2019/10/08

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) and Pierre Hoffmann (IF) are invited as speakers on “Co-creating Open & Transparent Data Marketplaces” in Belgium, an event jointly organised by AIOTI and the European Commission.

2019/08/04

Pierre Hoffmann (IF) presents IOTA at an "Alliance of Internet of Things Innovation" meeting.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Consulting

2017/06/19

Alpha Venturi is part of a new research and innovation network, formed by the IOTA Foundation, Norway Health Tech (formerly Oslo MedTech), Oslo Cancer Cluster, NTNU Center for Cyber and Information Security, The Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research and Alpha Venturi.

$4.59 bn

12,807

Germany

Mobility

2018/12/19

Amadeus recaps on their app focused on enhancing the payment of each phase of a journey through the tokenization of the entire travel lifecycle, developed during the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2018/07/09

Amaedus participates in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2017/10/22

Amadeus mentions IOTA in a publication about the potential of blockchains.

$n.a.

n.a.

Iran

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), AmirKabir University of Technology and Islamic Azad University publish a paper titled "The Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain: Implementation Perspectives", citing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

UAE

Academia

2019/07/08

Members of the Amity University publish a paper on a solution for "Solar Energy Distribution Using Blockchain and IoT Integration", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/16

Members of the Amity University publish a paper on "Enhancing IoT Security and Privacy Using Distributed Ledgers with IOTA and the Tangle".

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2017/2018

The Amrita University joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Japan

Policy

2019/11/01

Members of the japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Leland Capital, Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune and the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan publish a paper on "Blockchain Business and its Regulation", citing IOTA among Bitcoin and Ethereum as the only "risk-free projects".

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2018/04/13

The CIO of Aparito tweets from an IOTA event in Norway

2018/04/12

Chris Tyson, Chief Information Officer of Aparito presents on "Transforming patient reimbursement in clinical trials using IOTA".

2018/02/06

The CIO of Aparito describes in an article how IOTA can be applied to improve patient retention in clinical studies via a combination of next-generation patient monitoring and blockchain.

$312 m

n.a.

Switzerland

Other

2019/07

A new sensor from APG|SGA is spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace

2018/01/29

APG|SGA publishes a press release describing its proof-of-concept, connecting smart city sensors through Swisscoms LoRa network to the IOTA data marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2018/11/27

The Apiida CTO Sebastian Rohr hosts an IOTA workshop for the "International VDI Workshop - 3rd Gen Blockchain Technologies".

2018/05/24

Apiida AG announces their participation at the CeBit fair, marking IOTA in their tweet

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Policy

2019/03/18

Jens Munch Lund-Nielsen (IF), Andrew Brough (IF) and Navin Ramachandran (IF) present a live showcase on global trade at the UK All-party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG) hosted at the UK parliament.

2019/03/12

Dr. Navin Ramachandran participates in the meeting of the UK All-party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG) discussing DLT applications in healthcare, energy and environment.

2018/11/24

The UK All-party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG) lists Dr. Navin Ramachandran as "Permanent Advisory Board member".

2018/11/07

The UK All-party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG) publish their "program 2018/2019", listing Dr. Navin Ramachandran as "Permanent Advisory Board member."

2018/05/15

IOTA is discussed in the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchai (APPG)

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Electronics

2020/02/05

New Mobility Lab reports that members of the Apple Enterprise Team visited the Chicago Connectory where they have been presented with the "Performance-based service agreement, an IOTA-based solution for an Industrial IoT problem".

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Mobility

2018/01/19

The Municipality of Bærum publishes a presentation of Applied Autonomy, naming IOTA their partner in an autonomous mobility testbed in Kongsberg, Norway.

2017/12/12

Applied Autonomy invites IOTA to shape Norways future autonomous, electric and connected mobility

$n.a.

n.a.

UAE

Finance

2019/06/12

The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) publishes a paper "Using Blockchain in Financial Services", naming IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Belgium

Supply Chain

2019/08/29

A member of Area42 publishes a paper on "A Marketplace Approach to Trade-Related Risk Data", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2020/02/05

Ariwonto and Grakn AI held a meeting, presenting on "How to use IOTA on Grakn, and the future of distributed ledger and large scale IoT"

2019/09/16

Ariwonto officially launches "Dekathon, the first IOTA-Token ready enterprise suite, a next generation ERP/CRM Cloud Suite".

2019/08/08

Ariwonto announces the succesful development and launch of "Dekaton", an IOTA-based ERP/CRM system.

2019/04/09

Paracosm partners with Ariwonto to jointly work on IOTA-based solutions.

2019/03/04

Ariwonto releases a one-click deployment solution for IOTA fullnodes and ICT nodes on Microsoft Azure (including free $200 credit).

2019/01/19

Ariwonto publishes a one-click solution to deploy an IOTA node on Microsoft Azure.

2018/12/13

Ariwonto and Indracompany host an IOTA meetup at the Indracompany Peru headquarters where they will be showcasing a live presentation of their Dmoct Microsoft Azure integration.

2018/11/07

Ariwonto cooperates with Prozess Group to integrate IOTA in a market-ready solution with Microsoft Dynamics

2018/10

Ariwonto joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$1.4 bn

6,250

USA

IT

2019/10/28

Dell Technologies, the Linux Foundation and the IOTA Foundation team up for "Project Alvarium", the development of a codebase seeded by Dell Technologies, known as a "Data Confidence Fabric (DCF)" representing collaborative open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data. In its official press release, the Linux Foundation lists ARM, IBM, MobiledgeX, OSIsoft and Unisys as further project partners.

$n.a.

n.a.

Uruguay

IT

2019/10/04

A member of Arnaldo Castro presented on IOTA at the CIGRAS congress.

2019/09/06

Daniel De Michele from XDK2MAM meets with representatives from Arnaldo C. Castro SA and hints at joint collaborations on IOTA-based projects.

$4 m

n.a.

USA

IT

2018/01

Arundo joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Venezuela

Other

2019/02/04

The Artech Digital CEO Adrián Ruiz explains their view on their strategic alliance with the community driven IOTALatino network.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Other

2018/10/19

A patent application filed by Asia Factoring Shenzhen Co. Ltd. is published, describing “A kind of automatic data analysis system and its method”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

3,092

Philippines

Finance

2019/05/21

The Asian Development Bank publishes a paper "Fintech for Asian SMEs", attesting IOTA to be the only cryptopcurrency that might overcome "several issues".

2018/05/03

Julie Maupin (IF) represents IOTA as a panelist in the 51st Asian Development Bank Meeting.

2017/12/01

Julie Maupin (IF) of the Max Planck Institute and members of the Asian Development Bank publish a paper on "Distributed Ledger Technologies for Developing Asia".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2020/01/15

The CEO of Asvin GmbH tweets that Asvin is "using distributed ledger technology for iot update trust layers", "working with iotatoken and hyperledger dlt stacks" and are in the process of developing proof-of-concepts.

$1.47 bn

n.a.

Norway

Mobility

2018/07/06

ATB participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2020/01/22

Members of the Texas Tech University, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Auburn University at Montgomery and University of Houston published a paper titled "Nonlinear Blockchain Scalability: a Game-Theoretic Perspective", referencing IOTA.

$68.21 bn

88,453

Germany

Mobility

2018/07/25

An AUDI manager comments the IOTA collaboration with "The last five months we had a great time [...] working in crossfunctional teams with IOTA on a new project. With the focus on enabling trust for the user in emobility we pushed a new usecase to reality."

2018/07/25

Audi and the IOTA Foundation collaborate on exploring Tangle-based mobility use cases

2018/07/09

Audi participates as key participant in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2018/05/31

The DLT manager of Den Norske Bank reveals in an interview that he recently met with the Iota Foundation and Audi

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Infrastructure

2019/05/21

The IOTA Foundation sponsors the Texas Smart Cities Summit and hosts a working group session with attendees from from Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and beyond.

$7.5 bn

30,000

USA

Supply Chain

2019/05/15

Evrythng, Avery Dennison, 1017 ALYX 9SM and the IOTA Foundation publish the result of their collaboration for a supply chain tracking solution that is already in production (see link), based on the IOTA Tangle.

$8.66 bn

31,000

Norway

Mobility

2018/07/06

The AVIS Budget Group participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$4.56 bn

25,000

Malaysia

Communication

2018/11/21

The Axiata Group Berhad recaps its Data Unchained Datathon with 300 participants, sponsored by the IOTA Foundation and supported by Lewis Freiberg (IF), Microsoft, Google, Ericsson and further companies.

2018/11/04

The IOTA Foundation is a partner of the Axiata Group Berhad "Data Unchained" hackathon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

$1.51 bn

7,300

Switzerland

Finance

2018/07/20

Bâloise Holding AG (Basler Insurance) stopped their Ethereum based prototype and evaluates IOTA for their insurance platform enabling users to switch insurers easily

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2018/01/19

The Municipality of Bærum publishes a presentation of Applied Autonomy, naming IOTA their partner in an autonomous mobility testbed in Kongsberg, Norway.

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$56.53 bn

185,405

Spain

Finance

2018/04/19

Representatives from Banco Santander particpate in a presentation of Samuel Reid (IF core developer) at the Google Campus in Madrid

$120 bn

n.a.

Taiwan

Finance

2018/06/22

SinoPac and the IOTA Foundation sign a Memorandum of Understanding for future collaboration. SinoPac developed its notary solution iCertificate based on IOTA.

2017/08/23

The NCKU and SinoPac release a joint video, announcing a notary platform called i-Certificate.

$75.44 bn

115,490

Germany

Other

2018/02/27

Representatives from BASF are present at an IOTA meetup for StartupAutobahn

$17 m

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2018/09/20

Bayern Innovativ hosts an industry event, outlining IOTA use cases and implementation for the automotive industry, including talks by EDAG Engineering GmbH, DLT Lab Hochschule Reutlingen, Trive.me, Accessec GmbH, Adasens Automotive GmbH

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Finance

2018/07/09

The Bayrische Versicherungskammer participates in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

$23.68 bn

137,968

Spain

Finance

2018/12/17

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA) lists IOTA as one of the technologies their software engineering department will explore in 2019.

$798 m.

4,343

Netherlands

IT

2020/01/11

A partner at Bearingpoint, a big dutch management and technology consultancy, publishes a detailed article titled "IOTA - the backbone of the Internet of Things".

2019/04/30

Bearingpoint, a management and IT consultancy, publishes a report on DAGs for machine-to-machine communication, asserting IOTA the best qualities.

$n.a.

n.a.

Poland

IT

2018/12/03

Members of BEIA Consult International publish a paper on "Comparative Analysis of Distributed Ledger Technologies", including IOTA and the community-developed "Bolero" node.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2020/01/15

Members of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, CSIRO, Run Technologies Company, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Cyberspace Data Analysis and Applications and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security published a paper titled “Distributed Ledger Technology for eHealth Identity Privacy: State of The Art and Future Perspective”, referencing IOTA (and others)

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/09/06

Members of the University of Technology Sydney, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing, Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, China publish a paper on "Capacity of blockchain based Internet-of-Things: Testbed and analysis", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Energy

2019/04/11

The IOTA Foundation hosts representatives during the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2019, the leading international forum for key stakeholders of the energy sector.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2018/07/15

On July 15th, 2018 the IOTA Foundation announced being a founding member of the "Trusted Internet of Things Alliance", of which BigchainDB is also a member.

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which also BigchainDB is a member.

2017/12/17

Harm van den Brink (IF) reveils in a talk the joint development of a digital twin (Carpass) application together with BigchainDB, Volkswagen and Innogy (Note: IOTA discontinued working with Innogy)

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

IT

2020/02/12

Biilabs announced its participation in the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2020/02/04

BiiLabs announced to have published its 2020 product catalogue, including IOTA solutions, both in english and japanese.

2020/01/21

BiiLabs published its 2020 product catalogue, including IOTA services.

2020/01/16

BiiLabs announces the publication of its 2020 product catalog, including its IOTA-integrated "Sentinel" application, developed in cooperation with hardware-makers VeCow, ASRock and GigaByte.

2020/01/04

BiiLabs refers to the participation of its partner Yallvend at CES Las Vegas, which will present its IOTA-powered smart vending machine.

2019/12/23

Members of the National Taiwan University and National Cheng Kung University, as well as BiiLabs published a paper titled "Decentralized Data Marketplace to Enable Trusted Machine Economy", based on IOTA.

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2019/12/17

BiiLabs is presenting "the IoT-enabled data marketplace based on the IOTA Tangle at Qualcomm Innovation Taiwan Challenge 2019".

2019/12/06

Yu-Wei Wu (IF) and Partnership Manager Soichiro Watanabe from BiiLabs hold talks about "Blockchain trustless revolution: From the sociology & computer science view" at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

2019/12/05

IOTA Co-Founder Dominik Schiener (IF) becomes an advisor to BiiLabs.

2019/10/16

The IOTA-based case study of BiiLabs and TransIoT has been published on Amazon AWS.

2019/10/01

BiiLabs is invited to the Digitimes International Autonomous Car Innovation and Business Cooperation Forum to present its IOTA-based situation-based insurance proof-of-concept.

2019/09/26

BiiLabs and Softchef "join forces to launch ‘Benchy-Alfred’, a new SaaS platform for M2M encrypted IoT data".

2019/08/19

BiiLabs announces to integrate CellWine with its IOTA API solution.

2019/07/12

Lyman Chu, CEO of BiiLabs presented on TangleID and digital identity at the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) in Washington hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the US Department of Commerce

2019/07/08

BiiLabs Jim Huang will deliver a speech at the International Information Security Organization's Taiwan Summit (InfoSec Taiwan 2019) on "Introducing a Decentralized Identity System"

2019/07/04

BiiLabs joins the smart city forum with Taipei City Government and Major Ko, participating in the Taipei City Digital Citizen program to assist infrastructure construction of decentralized identifiers.

2019/06/28

BiiLabs is working on a leightweight IOTA permanode.

2019/06/19

BiiLabs announces on Twitter that it is "building virtual FPGA clusters to accelerating IOTA transactions".

2019/06/13

BiiLabs is listed as Amazon AWS ISV Partner with its IOTA-based "Alfred" package.

2019/06/12

BiiLabs reports that The W3C Credentials Community Group approved the registry of IOTA-based TangleID as Decentralized Identifier (DID) Method implementer, jointly developed with the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).

2019/06/06

BiiLabs is invited as speaker to the Tokyo FinTech Meetup #45 to speak about IOTA.

2019/06/04

Lu Xinke, the Chief Information Officer of the City of Taipei provides further information on Taipei"s efforts to digitalise governmental services based on Tangle-ID, developed in cooperation with BiiLabs.

Lu Xinke, der Chief Information Officer der City of Taipei bietet weitere Informationen in einem Interview zu Taipei"s Bestrebungen staatliche Dienste auf Basis der Tangle-ID anzubeiten, entwickelt in Zusammenarbeit mit BiiLabs.

2019/06/01

ITHome reports that the cooperation to develop an IOTA-based energy marketplace between BiiLabs and NextDrive reached the PoC stage.

2019/05/31

BiiLabs announces that it is "about to provide FPGA and SIMD accelerated IOTA full nodes officially along with the improved load balancer".

2019/05/25

Jimmy Xiong from BiiLabs presents IOTA at the China R-Conference.

2019/04/25

Lman Chu, founder of BiiLabs is invited as speaker to the DLT101 Summit in Taipei.

2019/04/23

BiiLabs publishes its IOTA-based authentication suite "Alfred" on the Amazon AWS marketplace for one-click deployment.

2019/04/12

BiiLabs publishes an article further describing their collaboration with TransIoT to offer a Tangle-based "Usage-Based Insurance" architecture.

2019/04/09

BiiLabs tweets about their collaboration with Gigabyte to provide DLT ready appliances through Gigabyte, storing data in the IOTA Tangle.

2019/04/01

BiiLabs meets with the IOTA Foundation for talks in Berlin.

2019/03/28

BiiLabs publishes an article detailing the use of their IOTA based platform "Alfred" jointly with cloud platform provider TransIoT to enable usage-based insurance (UBI).

2019/03/18

BiiLabs releases a 10x optimisation of binary to trinary conversion.

2019/03/17

BiiLabs releases a decentralized data marketplace that allows data consumers to place bids on auctions for high-value sensor/IoT devices.

2019/03/11

BiiLabs releases four IOTA-based proof of concept demonstrations for Decentralized Certification, Tangle Credentials, Agricultural Product Tracking and Tangle Lottery.

2019/03/11

BiiLabs releases a proxy server, called "Tangle accelerator", caching IOTA node API requests as open source.

2018/12/22

BiiLabs attends a workshop of the Peace Innovation Foundation on "securing DLT-based ID-system for humanitarian workers" with their partners from AccesSec, IOTA, Mobaxe, B4P Solutions and Motorola.

2018/12/13

BiiLabs publishes an article describing their Sentinel Appliance that helps enterprises and governments to monitor water quality with the help of DLTs (IOTA tagged as article keyword).

2018/12/09

Jim Huang from BiiLabs tweets about their "research prototype that has been adopted by the NCKU as career verification platform, using verified credentials with IOTA".

2018/11/30

The IILA releases a press release regarding their memorandum of understanding with the NCKU DLT Lab of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, on collaborating in the field of Internet of Everything, Internet of Production and distributed ledger technology-driven Data Economy based on IOTA.

2018/11/14

The BiiLabs co-founder and CEO is invited to talk about "Your City On Blockchain" at TechCrunch Shenzhen 2018.

2018/10/15

BiiLabs officially announces their launch of their open source GDPR-compliant identity system based on IOTA.

2018/10/02

Jim Huang from Biilabs releases a Github repository for TangleID, supposedly used for the City of Taipei Citizen ID card.

2018/09/16

Jim Huang from Biilabs announces testing of a multi-threaded AVX2 accelerated full node and the upcoming set up of a FPGA cluster for radically fast transactions, open to the public

2018/06/30

Jim Huang from Biilabs announces the release of TangleID among a completely decentralised identity application for the second quarter of 2018 and posts a link to a first Github repo

$n.a.

n.a.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Communication

2020/01/30

Members of the University of Siegen, University of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina Telecom (BH Telecom) published a paper titled "Directed Acyclic Graph as Tangle: an IoT Alternative to Blockchains", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Infrastructure

2020/02/01

Deposy publishes a video, explaining the interaction between a product ID, theg Deposy NTA and IOTA integration.

2019/10/11

Deposy meets with representatives of the IOTA Foundation for a workshop on "Co-creating Impact with EIT Climate KIC".

2019/10/09

Lidbot, Omoku and BIOTA e.V. collaborate on an IOTA-driven recycling solution called "Deposy".

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

IT

2019/04/14

Terry Shane of the bIOTAsphere is invited by the Canadian National Research Council to its "Voice of Industry" workshop.

2019/04/08

The bIOTAsphere publishes a short video of its recent "half-day educational session for senior leaders at PricewaterhouseCoopers".

2018/12/19

High Mobility, the bIOTAsphere and the IOTA Foundation hold a live webinar, showcasing how High Mobility's platform can be used to develop IOTA-based vehicle blueprints.

2018/12/12

Harm van den Brink (IF)/ElaadNL and Terry Shane of the bIOTAsphere talk about how they are using novel technologies, and in particular IOTA, to accelerate the evolution of electric vehicles.

2018/11/02

The bIOTAsphere publishes a video providing developer insights into their IOTA based proof-of-concept "Insure my car"

2018/09/27

Terry Shane, CEO of Refined Data Solutions Inc. and founder of the bIOTAsphere, presents a proof-of-concept for a situation-based car insurance model during NewCO in the Biotasphere, reading data from a Tesla X and streaming it to the IOTA tangle, paying insurance fees based on driver behaviour. Apparently, Shane was already in talks with insurers (see link)

2018/09

The bIOTAsphere joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2019/05/15

Michele Nati (IF) is invited by the Birkbeck University London to present IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2020/01/21

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hohai University, National institute of Telecommunications (INATEL) and University of Idaho published a paper titled "DAGIoV: A Framework for Vehicle to Vehicle Communication using Directed Acyclic Graph and Game Theory", referencing IOTA.

2020/01/16

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal and Tomsk Polytechnic University published a paper titled "A Blockchain-based Framework for Lightweight Data Sharing and Energy Trading in V2G Network", based on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2019/07/08

Members of the Birmingham City University and the Centre for Citizenship publish a paper on "Blockchain as a Value Enabler: Bridging Financial Assets and Intangibles ".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Policy

2019/06/06

Janna Zielinksi (IF) is invited by Bitkom to present IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Austria

Finance

2020/03/12

Representatives from Bitpanda hold a presentation at the IOTA Vienna Meetup

2018/06/14

Bitpanda integrates IOTA on its platform

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

IT

2019/10/23

Bit4ID presents its digital identity prototype EUCLID integrated with Hyperledger Fabric and IOTA at the SMAU 2019.

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Finance

2019/10/10

A patent application filed by Black Gold Coin Inc. is published, describing “Systems and methods for personal identification and verification”, referencing IOTA.

2018/11/19

A patent is awarded to Black Gold Coin Inc., describing “Systems and methods for providing a universal decentralized solution for verification of users with cross-verification features”, referencing IOTA.

2018/08/30

A patent application filed by Black Gold Coin Inc. is published, describing “Systems and methods for providing a universal decentralized solution for verification of users with cross-verification features”, referencing IOTA.

2018/08/28

A patent application filed by Black Gold Coin Inc. is published, describing “Personal identification and verification systems”, referencing IOTA.

2018/06/07

A patent application filed by Black Gold Coin Inc. is published, describing “System zur sicheren Speicherung von elektronischem Material”, referencing IOTA.

$916 m

4.044

USA

Communication

2019/10/17

A patent application filed by Blackberry Ltd. is published, describing “Providing inter-vehicle data communications for vehicular drafting operations“, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/09/29

Blackpin GmbH presents an alternative to WhatsApp based on IOTA.

$440 m

1,008

Norway

Energy

2018/01

BKK joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

IT

2018/01

The Blocklab joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$115.91 bn

129,932

Germany

Mobility

2019/04/08

The "Head of Blockchain, AI and NLP" of BMW presents the holistic view of the mobile connected ecosystems at the BMW headquarter in Munih, featuring IOTA and Hyperledger on their roadmap.

2019/02/15

Students from the Fraunhofer Institute present their IOTA-based Platooning proof-of-concept at the BMW Information Technology Center during the MOBI Grand Challenge.

2019/02/15

Outlier Ventures (early IOTA investor) tweets a picture from a BMW presentation during the MOBI Grand Challenge at the BMW ITZ (Information Technology Center), showing IOTA on their roadmap for "track and trace, value exchange and sale and autonomy".

2019/02/14

Alexander Renz (IF) and Klaus Schaaf (IF) attend the MOBI Grand Challenge at the BMW headquarter in Munich, Germany as jurors.

2018/07/24

BMW congratulates the winners of the Blockchain Mobility Hackathon, exploring the applications of blockchain and the IOTA Tangle.

2018/07/19

BMW AG visits RWTH University to look at their Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) proof of concept based on IOTA technology

2018/07/09

BMW AG participates as key participant in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner' of which BMW is also a member.

$92.60 bn

400,000

Germany

Electronics

2020/02/19

BOSCH announces the winners of the Trusted IoT Alliance hackathon for its "IoT Smart Bulding Challenge", for which IOTA is listed as principle partner in all categories, at the "BOSCH Connected World" event.

2020/01/14

BOSCH hosts a hackathon and workshop for the Trusted IoT Alliance that lists the IOTA Foundation as principle partner in all categories of its "IoT Smart Bulding Challenge".

2019/12/17

The Chicago Connectory tweets from its event at which it hosts talks by Jochen Renz (IF) and Matteo Dariol from BOSCH Rexroth.

2019/12/17

Matteo Dariol, Lead Innovation Strategist for Bosch Rexroth talks about "Performance-based service agreement – DLT solution for an Industrial IoT problem" at the IOTA Foundation Beyond Blockchain Meetup Chicago. Jochen Renz (IF) and Uwe Roehm from BOSCH are attending the event as well.

2019/11/05

Members of Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (India) publish a paper on "Smart Wallets on Blockchain—Attacks and Their Costs", citing IOTA.

2019/10/31

A patent application filed by Robert Bosch GmbH was published, describing “Method and device for operating a digital payment system”, (exclusively) based on the IOTA Tangle

2019/09/12

Bosch and IOTA host a meetup at the Curitiba Connectory to explain the different use-cases of the IOTA Tangle.

2019/07/08

Reiner Schmohl, BOSCH XDK Product Lead, has a barbecue with the Argentinian XDK2MAM.

2019/06/04

A Bosch representative talks about Distributed Ledger Technology - Economy of Things @ Bosch at the Chicago Connectory, in particular about technical implementations and the impact on future business models.

2019/05/15

BOSCH publishes a video explaining blockchains, Distributed Ledgers and "the alternative approach for use-cases with higher transaction limit requirements", a Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) in which every transaction confirms tow previous transactions.

2019/05/02

Dominik Schiener (IF), Jochen Renz (IF) and Alexander Rieger from Bosch, as well as SonicMessenger are giving an update on IOTA at the Chicago Connectory.

2019/04/30

BOSCH publishes an article about data monetization on its homepage, mentioning two options to monetize data: fiat or IOTA.

2019/03/21

Bosch announces to present an IoT demonstration for smart factories that "will be able to pre-process data and execute local data analysis, as well as accept payments with cryptocurrencies like IOTA".

2019/02/05

Representatives from the Bosch XDK team visit the IILA and talk about further use-cases of the IOTA-based XDK2MAM library within the Internet-of-Production PoC.

2019/01/11

Bosch adresses the IOTA community in a tweet regarding their development XDK.

2018/11/23

Peter Busch, Product Owner for DLTs in mobility at BOSCH is cited with "Bosch is very close to use IoT together with IOTA" after his presentation at the Frankfurt School of Blockchain.

2018/11/21

BOSCH officially includes the open source IOTA library "XDK2MAM" in their BOSCH XDK Ecosystem.

2018/11/12

BOSCH publishes an extensive article explaining how their XDK hardware and XDK2MAM enables anyone to contribute to the IOTA data marketplace.

2018/09/26

BoschRexroth Brazil provided BOSCH XDKs for a workshop held by XDK2MAM, teaching participants to connect to the IOAT data marketplace.

2018/09/25

BOSCH again endorses XDK2MAM, an open source IOTA community project in a tweet

2018/09/13

BOSCH endorses XDK2MAM, an open source IOTA community project in a tweet on programmers day

2018/09/04

BOSCH publishes a video interview with Domink Schiener (IF), providing a closer look at the potential of distributed ledger technology, explaining what technologies like blockchain are able to achieve and how the IoT can benefit

2018/08/10

An Industrial IoT Expert from BOSCH North America explains the advantages of IOTA in an interview

2018/08/09

BOSCH states in a tweet that it wants to intensify its collaboration with the IOTA Foundation

2018/08/07

BOSCH publishes video interviews with Dominik Schiener (IF) in their youtube channel.

2018/07/20

BOSCH provides an update on their progress working with IOTA (and Ethereum)

2018/07/15

On July 15th, 2018 the IOTA Foundation was a founding member of the "Trusted Internet of Things Alliance", of which the WEF is also a member.

2018/07/09

BOSCH particpates in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which BOSCH also is a member.

2018/03/24

BOSCH publishes an article on "How blockchain can help to prevent odometer fraud", featuring IOTA

2018/02/10

BOSCH tweets about implementing IOTA in autonomous cars during the BOSCH SI hackathon

2018/01/25

Representatives from BOSCH host an "Ask Me Anything" event regarding IOTA on Reddit

2017/12/19

Robert Bosch Venture Capital announces its investment into IOTA

$30.28 bn

106,700

Great Britain

IT

2020/02/08

Members of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., the Cyberethics Lab and British Telecom plc published a chapter in the book "Blockchain: enabling trust in the internet of things", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Dubai

Academia

2020/02/05

Members of the British University in Dubai, Hashemite University and the University of Dubai published a paper titled "Towards building a blockchain framework for IoT", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

NGO

2017/06/30

IOTA co-founds german blockchain association Bundesblock e.V. in the german parliament

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Governmental

2019/05/14

The Fraunhofer Institute presents its IOTA-based platooning prototype at the german Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI) blockchain forum.

2019/05/15

The german Federal Ministry for Mobility and digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur) publishes an extensive expert report on "Chances and challenges of DLT in Mobility and Logistics", analyzing 8 DLT's in detail, of which IOTA is one of the three permissionless systems (next to ETH and BTC).

2018/10/23

Alisa Maas (IF) is invited to an expert group of the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in preparation of a report on "Blockchain Technology in the mobility sector".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Governmental

2019/11/21

The Bundesministerium für Energie und Wirtschaft publishes an article about IOTA, titled "Meilenstein für die Maschinen-zu-Maschinen-Kommunikation: Industry Marketplace von IOTA setzt auf Spezifikationen der Plattform Industrie 4.0".

2019/06/19

The German-Mexican Energy Partnership, comprised of the german Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) and the Ministry of Energy of Mexico (SENER) in collaboration with the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) publish a paper "Blockchain meets Energy" on "Digital Solutions for a Decentralized and Decarbonized Sector", naming IOTA as a new approach circumventing known problems of DLTs.

2019/02/20

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy offers a grant for "Block­chain-based metering and management of energy distribution systems: Feasibility study and pilot concept", mentioning IOTA as possible architecture.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Energy

2018/03/21

A presentation from the BDEW emerges, explaining blockchains (transactors, miners, nodes) and mentions IOTA and its advantages as an alternative.

2017/10

The BDEW publishes their blockchain research report "Potential for energy suppliers", naming IOTA several times in it.

2017/08/11
The BDEW publishes a paper on "Blockchain in the Energy Sector".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Policy

2017/10

Julie Maupin (IF) is invited by Germany's eco-party "Bündnis90/Die Grünen" to discuss the potential of DLTs for a sustainable future. Danyal Bayaz, german minister who recently met with Dominik Schiener (IF) is a participant.

$n.a.

n.a.

France

IT

2018/12/18

Bytes publishes an update on their development progress.

2018/11/16

Bytes publishes an update on their development progress, announcing to split their work into a mobile app and an IoT stack, enabling IoT devices to user their services.

2018/10/10

Bytes releases a video of an PoC app of their internet access trading app, based on Ethereum and IOTA.

2018/10/05

Bytes receives a grant of $ 70,000 from the IOTA Foundation Ecosystem Development Fund.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Finance

2020/02/10

Boerse Stuttgart GmbH, a german stock exchange, discusses IOTA cryptocurrencies in its podcast.

$n.a.

n.a.

Israel

Other

2018/12/22

B4P Solutions attends a workshop of the Peace Innovation Foundation on "securing DLT-based ID-system for humanitarian workers" with their partners from AccesSec, IOTA, BiiLabs, Motorola and Mobaxe.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/09/26

A member of the California State University publishes a paper titled "New Business Applications for the Blockchain", citing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Mobility

2020/02/11

Calypso Networks announced its participation in the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Cambridge Blockchain Inc was published, describing “Systems and Methods For Secure Custodial Service”, referencing IOTA.

2019/07/04

A patent application filed by Cambridge Blockchain Inc is published, describing “Systems and methods for managing digital identities”, referencing IOTA.

2019/04/18

A patent application filed by Cambridge Blockchain Inc. is published, describing “Systems and methods for managing relationships among digital identities”, referencing IOTA.

$6.52 bn

29.309

Germany

Other

2020/01/27

Members of the Edith Cowan University, Canberra Institute of Technology and Southeast University Bangladesh published a book titled "Security Analytics for the Internet of Everything", referencing IOTA.

$6.52 bn

29.309

Germany

Other

2019/08/08

Representatives of Carl Zeiss AG visit the IOTA Lab Aachen, commented by the RWTH head with "looking forward to an upcoming cooperation" on Twitter.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2019/03

Researchers from University of Siegen publish their research results on "Distributed Ledger Technologies for M2M Communications", analysing IOTA and Hedera Hasgraph in collaboration with Carmeq GmbH in scope of its "Mobility 2030" project.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2020/02/14

Members of the Cardiff University and Fre University Berlin published a paper titled "Performance of Tip Selection Schemes in DAG Blockchains", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Lithuania

IT

2019/06/28

BiiLabs is working on a leightweight IOTA permanode.

2018/11/07

CarVertical announces using IOTA as a backend for their automated parking payment solution "CarVertical.City" (including the option to pay via IOTA tokens).

2018/10/26

CarVertical announces tweets that they will "sort out the tangle" on Novermber 7th.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2020/02/05

New Mobility Lab reports that members of the Apple Enterprise Team visited the Chicago Connectory where they have been presented with the "Performance-based service agreement, an IOTA-based solution for an Industrial IoT problem".

2019/12/17

The Chicago Connectory tweets from its event at which it hosts talks by Jochen Renz (IF) and Matteo Dariol from BOSCH Rexroth.

2019/06/04

A Bosch representative talks about Distributed Ledger Technology - Economy of Things @ Bosch at the Chicago Connectory, in particular about technical implementations and the impact on future business models.

2019/05/20

The Chicago Connectory shares a video of the thoughts on IOTA of an industrial IoT expert from BOSCH.

2019/05/02

Dominik Schiener (IF), Jochen Renz (IF) and Alexander Rieger from Bosch, as well as SonicMessenger are giving an update on IOTA at the Chicago Connectory.

The Chicago Connectory invites to the upcoming IOTA event on May 2nd.

2018/10/31

Jochen Renz (IF) is being portraiet in an article published by the Chicago Connectory.

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Academia

2020/01/15

Members of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, CSIRO, Run Technologies Company, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Cyberspace Data Analysis and Applications and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security published a paper titled “Distributed Ledger Technology for eHealth Identity Privacy: State of The Art and Future Perspective”, referencing IOTA (and others)

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Other

2020/01/15

Members of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, CSIRO, Run Technologies Company, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Cyberspace Data Analysis and Applications and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security published a paper titled “Distributed Ledger Technology for eHealth Identity Privacy: State of The Art and Future Perspective”, referencing IOTA (and others)

$n.a.

n.a.

Ukraine

Academia

2018/09

Members of the University of Lviv and Cherkasy State Technological University publish a paper on "Сryptocurrency and Internet of Things: Problems of Implementation and Realization", analysing IOTA.

$60.68 bn

n.a.

Sweden

Finance

2018/02/12

The swedish central bank, Riiksbank, selects IOTA as one of the contenders to explore the option for a national digital currency, the E-Krona

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Governmental

2019/06/20

Matthew Yarger (IF) discusses IOTA at a meeting with the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2020/02/15

A project engineer of the Centre for Development and Advanced Computing, an autonomous Scientific Society of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Pune, India), presented on "Developimng IoT Solutions using IOTA" at IOTShow.

$8.17 bn

73,000

Canada

IT

2018/12/01

The CGI Group hosts an exclusive IOTA hackathon in Braunscheig, Germany, in cooperation with the IOTA Foundation, also presenting projects their employees already worked on.

2018/01

The CGI Group joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$17 m

n.a.

Germany

Energy

2017/01/29

The Chainledger Systems AG announces their positioning as third pary integration service for IOTA technology.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2019/01/09

A video of a DXC proof-of-concept for a vehicle charging station and an IOTA car wallet is published, developed in collaboration by DXC and the Chennai Institute of Technology.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/09/06

Members of the University of Technology Sydney, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing, Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, China publish a paper on "Capacity of blockchain based Internet-of-Things: Testbed and analysis", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Governmental

2018/05/17

The CCID, a research unit under the countries industrial ministry ranks IOTA at #8 of 30 top DLTs

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/12/31

Members of the Shandong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong published a paper titled "A Highly Parallelized PIM-based Accelerator for Transaction-based Blockchain in IOT Environment", referencing IOTA.

2019/09/25

A member of the Chinese University of Hong Kong publishes a paper titled "Blockchain of Things (BCoT): The Fusion of Blockchain and IoT Technologies", referencing IOTA.

$48.01 bn

72,790

USA

Electronics

2018/07/15

On July 15th, 2018 the IOTA Foundation was a founding member of the "Trusted Internet of Things Alliance", of which Cisco is also a member.

2018/04/05

IOTA attends to a private meeting with Intelzone, IBM and Cisco

2018/01/17

Max Minchenkov (IF) and Serge Ivancheglo (IF) attend a blockchain conference in Moscow and reveal that IOTA is working with Cisco on a project for an undisclosed oil company.

$n.a.

n.a.

Romania

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

The city of Alba Iulia participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Infrastructure

2019/05/21

The IOTA Foundation sponsors the Texas Smart Cities Summit and hosts a working group session with attendees from from Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and beyond.

2019/04/30

Dominik Schiener (IF) and Matthew Yarger (IF) meet the mayor of the City of Austin.

2019/04/29

Dominik Schiener (IF), Matthew Yarger (IF) and reprsentatives from the City of Austin Department of Transportation announce their partnership on smart city collaboration and provide deep insights into their vision of the future.

2019/04/25

The City of Austin Transportation Department reveals that it is partnering with the IOTA Foundation to bring the future of mobility to Austin, Texas.

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Infrastructure

2017/12/18

Xurux reveals a PoC for official document verification for the City of Haarlem, Netherlands

$n.a.

n.a.

Ireland

Infrastructure

2019/09/27

The Limerick City and County Council publishes a video detailing its work within the EU 2020 Horizon programme of creating positive energy disctricts with IOTA as a base currency for energy trade.

2018/07/06

The city of Limerick participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Czech Republic

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

The city of Pisek participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

The city of Sestao participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Bulgaria

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

The city of Smolyan participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

Infrastructure

2019/07/04

BiiLabs joins the smart city forum with Taipei City Government and Major Ko, participating in the Taipei City Digital Citizen program to assist infrastructure construction of decentralized identifiers.

2019/06/04

Lu Xinke, the Chief Information Officer of the City of Taipei provides further information on Taipei"s efforts to digitalise governmental services based on Tangle-ID, developed in cooperation with BiiLabs.

Lu Xinke, der Chief Information Officer der City of Taipei bietet weitere Informationen in einem Interview zu Taipei"s Bestrebungen staatliche Dienste auf Basis der Tangle-ID anzubeiten, entwickelt in Zusammenarbeit mit BiiLabs.

2018/06/13

Jim Huang of Biilabs tweets about mass deployment of a self-sovereign identity management system based on IOTA for the city of Taipei until the end of 2018

2018/05/31

Members of the taiwanese government visit the IOTA Foundation in Berlin

2018/01/30

Tapei, the capital of Taiwan announces a partnership with the IOTA Foundation and BiiLabs to incorporate DLT into smart city applications, starting with TangleID citizen cards

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

The City of Trondheim participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Estonia

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

The city of Voru participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$25.74 m

400

Germany

IT

2018/03/09

Codecentric introduces IOTA in their Chain Day in Frankfurt

2017/09/09

Codecentric introduces IOTA in their Chain Day in Solingen

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Finance

2019/11/07

Coinstreet Partners lists the IOTA Foundation as partner of the "Coinstreet Alliance", a "collaboration business partnership program among top-notch blockchain professionals and service providers [...] enabling the next generation of decentralized investment banks".

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

Colaborativa participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

IT

2019/06/06

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited as speaker by Communicate Norge to a talk on "How to build trust in the value chain?".

$n.a.

n.a.

Pakistan

Academia

2020/02/28

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad and Incheon National University published a paper titled "Post-quantum distributed ledger for internet of things", referencing IOTA.

2020/01/13

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad, King Abdulaziz University and King Saud University published a paper titled “Novel One Time Signatures (NOTS): A Compact Post-quantum Digital Signature Scheme”, referencing IOTA

2020/01/09

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad, King Saud University and University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar published a paper titled "Data Sharing System Integrating Access Control Mechanism using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts for IoT Devices", referencing IOTA.

2019/12/23

Members of the University of Kentucky and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, including Umair Sarfraz (IF) publish a paper titled "Outsourcing IOTA proof‐of‐work to volunteer public devices", based on IOTA.

2019/07/03

Members of the COMSATS University, Islamabad, publish a paper on "Curbing Address Reuse in the IOTA Distributed Ledger: A Cuckoo-Filter-Based Approach" that can be directly integrated into the current IOTA core lightweight client, avoiding address reuse.

2019/04/02

Members of the Kyung Hee University and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology publish a joint paper on "Orchestrating Product Provenance Story: When IOTA ECOSYSTEM Meets The Electronics Supply Chain Space".

2018/01/05

Umair Sarfraz (IF) and fellow members of the COMSATS University as well as University of Kentucky publish a paper on "Privacy aware IOTA ledger: Decentralized mixing and unlinkable IOTA transactions".

2017/12/06

Three researchers of the University of Malaya, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology and Sangji University publish an academic research paper on IEEE, analysing "Decentralized Consensus for Edge-Centric Internet of Things: A Review, Taxonomy, and Research Issues", citing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

IT

2019

Conceptual KLT S.L. mentions on its website to be collaborating closely with the IOTA Foundation.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Energy

2019/07/11

A patent application filed by Conjoule GmbH is published, describing a “System Comprising an Electrical Producer Arrangement”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Consulting

2018/02/02

Conexio GmbH organises a symposium including a presentation from IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Denmark

Academia

2019/06/06

Members of the Polytechnic University Madrid,Copenhagen Business School and Kristiania University College publish a paper "Accelerating Health Data Sharing: A Solution Based on the Internet of Things and Distributed Ledger Technologies", proposing a solution based on IOTA MAM..

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Electronics

2019/07/04

A patent application filed by Corlina Inc is published, describing a “System and method for monitoring the trustworthiness of a networked system”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Liechtenstein

IT

2019/06/13

A patent application filed by CoreLedger AG is published, describing a “Method for carrying out transactions”, referencing IOTA.

$894 m

n.a.

Norway

IT

2018/04/15

Navin Ramachandran (IF) and Jens Munch Lund-Nielsen (IF) speak at a Crayon meeting about the machine economy

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/10/03

Cretec GmbH released a video of a fully automated industrial lab test suite, including an data archiving solution based on IOTA as well as a pay-per-production/pay-per-view solution based on the IOTA token

2019/08/29

EinfachIOTA.de publishes a video from the ZeMA industrial mechatronics/automation industry event.

2019/08/29

EinfachIOTA.de publishes a detailed report of the ZeMA industrial mechatronics/automation industry event, including images and detailed descriptions of the presented IOTA-based proof-of-concepts from ZeMa, Cretec GmbH, and the RWTH Aachen.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/11/28

A patent on "Smart parking locator and reservation systems" applied for by Cryptokart Inc is published, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Finance

2019/01/20

The IOTA Foundation Partners with Crypto Storage AG to "offer the First Institutional-Grade IOTA Token Storage Infrastructure Solution".

2020/01/02

A patent application filed by Swiss Crypto Storage AG, an official partner of the IOTA Foundation, was published, describing the “Secure Storage of Crypto Assets”, referencing IOTA (and others)

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2019/06/01

The IOTA Foundation announces that the IOTA token is available for OTC trade at Cumberland, one of the world's leading crypto OTC liquidity providers for retail investors, hedge funds, businesses and approved investor.

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

IT

2020/02/08

Members of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., the Cyberethics Lab and British Telecom plc published a chapter in the book "Blockchain: enabling trust in the internet of things", referencing IOTA.

$11 m

n.a.

Estonia

IT

2019/05/19

An update on the grant of "Digital Liquid Democracy: Delegative End-to-end Verifiable E-voting" the University of Lancaster, Cybernetica AS and IOTA are working on is published.

2017/05/02

Cybernetica (e-voting pioneer) supports IOTA e-voting research of the University of Lancaster

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

IT

2019/08/27

Members of Cybercrypt AS, the Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems (IRISA) and the Technical University Denmark publish a paper titled "Troika: a ternary cryptographic hash function", analysing IOTA's new hash function.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of CSIRO, the University of New South Wales, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre publishes a paper titled "Blockchain Technologies for IoT", referencing IOTA.

$11 m

n.a.

Czech Republic

Academia

2019/04/24

A student of the Czech Technical University in Prague publishes his master thesis on "Analysis of IOTA Protocol and its Use Cases".

$192.31 bn

289,331

Germany

Mobility

2019/09/05

The Industrial IOTA Lab Aachen of the WZL of the RWTH University Aachen welcomed visitors from Daimler and presented its IOTA-based internet-of-production prototype.

2019/07/18

Fujitsu presents its IOTA-based proof-of-concept at the Daimler EDM CAE Forum.

2019/07

Lab1886, the corporate incubator of Daimler AG is spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace.

2018/05/31

The DLT manager of Den Norske Bank reveals in an interview that he recently met with the Iota Foundation and Mercedes

2018/12/03

A Mercedes Benz employee tweets about an IOTA meetup during StartupAutobahn

2018/02/27

Through its "Fleetboard Innovation Hub", Daimler holds a hackathon for their truck mobility services and vehicles. One of the DLTs used is IOTA. Fleetboard GmbH is the former employer of Alisa Maas (IF).

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

IT

2020/02/13

Members of the Swinburne University of Technology, La Trobe University and CSIRO Data61 published a paper titled "Towards a Trusted Marketplace for Wearable Data", referencing IOTA.

2020/01/15

Members of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, CSIRO, Run Technologies Company, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Cyberspace Data Analysis and Applications and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security published a paper titled “Distributed Ledger Technology for eHealth Identity Privacy: State of The Art and Future Perspective”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2019/12/23

Members of the CSIRO, University of New South Wales and Queensland University of Technology published a paper titled "Analysis of Data Management in Blockchain-Based Systems: From Architecture to Governance", referencing IOTA.

2019/10/30

A publication of members of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology and CSIRO, titled "A Comprehensive Survey on Attacks, Security Issues and Blockchain Solutions for IoT and IIoT" and referencing IOTA, has been accepted for publication in the "Journal of Network and Computer Applications".

2019/09/25

Members of CSIRO, the University of New South Wales, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre publishes a paper titled "Blockchain Technologies for IoT", referencing IOTA.

2019/09/06

Members of the University of Technology Sydney, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing, Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, China publish a paper on "Capacity of blockchain based Internet-of-Things: Testbed and analysis", referencing IOTA.

2019/08/17

Members of the University of New South Wales Australia, DATA61 CSIRO and Tata Consulting, publish a paper on "LSB: A Lightweight Scalable Blockchain for IoT security and anonymity", rferencing IOTA.

$883 m

7.387

Germany

Other

2019/11/22

Germany's largest tax software provider DATEV publishes an article titled "How IOTA and others monetize data".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2018/07/09

Datarella GmbH hosts the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2017/11/17

Datarella GmbH hosts an IOTA hackathon in Poland

$n.a.

n.a.

China

IT

2019/11/22

A patent application filed by Daqing Direction Software Technology Co. Ltd. is published ,describing a “System for distributed search and network measuring”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2019/11/06

Members of the Deakin University publish a paper titled "Applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies to the Internet of Things: A Survey", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Policy

2018/05/22

The IOTA Foundation announces their membership in the ndation (DIF).

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2019/05/21

Delion presents a TranslateBits, a pay per character translation service based on IOTA.

$25 bn

70,000

Germany

Electronics

2019/10/23

Daniel Trauth of the RWTH Aachen University reports that the collaboration with Dell EMC on its Feintool IOTA-use case is progressing rapidly.

2019/02/08

Dan Dougherty, Senior Vice President EMEA of Dell EMC visits Daniel Trauth from the IILA for a presentation of their IOTA-based Internet-of-Production proof-of-concept.

$90.62 bn

157,000

USA

Electronics

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/12/08

Dell reiterates on its collaboration with the IOTA Foundation, the Linux Foundation and Unisys on "establishing measurable trust and confidence in data from multiple sources".

2019/11/14

Dell tweets about its collaboration with the IOTA Foundation and the Linux Foundation on "Project Alvarium".

2019/11/14

Jason Shepherd, CTO of IoT and Edge Computing at Dell talks about Dell's collaboration with IOTA and hints at upcoming Dell projects utilising IOTA.

2019/11/09

Dell tweets about its collaboration with the IOTA Foundation and the Linux Foundation on "Project Alvarium".

2019/10/28

Dell Technologies, the Linux Foundation and the IOTA Foundation team up for "Project Alvarium", the development of a codebase seeded by Dell Technologies, known as a "Data Confidence Fabric (DCF)" representing collaborative open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data. In its official press release, the Linux Foundation lists ARM, IBM, MobiledgeX, OSIsoft and Unisys as further project partners.

$38.8 bn

263,900

Germany

Consulting

2018/11/12

Deloitte & Touche Risk Management Advisory Co. reportedly assesses the BiiLabs/Taiwanese TangleID citizen card in regards to security and GDPR compliance.

2018/06/23

Deloitte publishes an article "IOTA explained - in under 100 words"

2017/11/27

Peaq introduces IOTA at a meetup at Deloitte Digital Ventures in Munich

2017/11/27

Nakamot.to holds a presentation about IOTA at Deloitte

$6.6 bn

11,047

Norway

Finance

2019/04/10

Sopra Steria hosts a meeting with its partners Entra, DNV GL Veracity, Mimiro-InFuture, NEXT Biometrics, Den Norske Bank, IOTA Foundation and other key Norwegian stakeholders "explore new pathways to value creation in the Internet-of-Things and the new digital economy".

2018/05/31

DNB ASA signs a memorandum of understanding with the IOTA Foundation to collaborate on exploring the new digital innovation landscape made possible by the IOTA Tangle technology

$50.20 bn

323,000

Germany

Mobility

2020/01/16

Deutsche Bahn is still looking for a software engineer / business engineer with knowledge in Hyperledger and IOTA and renewed the job ad on its website.

2019/11/12

Deutsche Bahn renewed a job ad for a Software Developer/Business Engineer with practical experience in IOTA for its blockchain team.

2019/10/08

Deutsche Bahn renews its job ad for a Software Developer/Business Engineer with practical experience in IOTA for its blockchain team.

2019/07/10

Deutsche Bahn is looking for a Software Developer/Business Engineer with practical experience in IOTA for its blockchain team.

2019/01/28

The Deutsche Bahn is looking for a software engineer with knowledge in Hyperledger and IOTA.

2018/10/12

Regine Hascka Helmer (IF) is invited as a panelist to the Deutsche Bahn 2nd Blockchain Public Day

2018/07/09

Deutsche Bahn participates as key participant in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2018/06/12

A tweet from Regine Helmer (IF) shows Dominik Schiener (IF) and the (assumed) press secretary of Deutsche Bahn posing together at the Cebit 2018 fair, referencing a meeting and announcing "more to come"

2018/02/23

Dominik Schiener (IF) reveals in an interview that IOTA is working with Deutsche Bahn

$1.73 tn

97,535

Germany

Finance

2018/02/23

Dominik Schiener reveals in an interview that IOTA is working with Deutsche Bank

2017/12/11

Deutsche Bank publishes a blockchain report, suggesting IOTA having solved the fundamential problems of blockchain and calls it the "currency of IoT"

$n.a.

200

Germany

Energy

2019/02/26

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited to the official launch of the DENA (the german energy agency) blockchain study.

$87.02 bn

216,000

Germany

Communication

2019/09/19

The telekom Innovation Lab presents its solution "Ståx", including its IOTA-integration, at Diffusion2019.

2019/09/11

T-System unveils its ride sharing scooter XRide, partly based on IOTA.

2019/08/23

T-Systems features Alexander Ebeling and Yannik Lockl of the Fraunhofer FIT BlockchainLab with their IOTA-based platooning prototype in its podcast.

2019/08/21

A patent application filed by Deutsche Telekom AG is published, describing a “Management ecosystem of superdistributed hashes”, referencing IOTA.

2019/08/02

The Deutsche Telekom podcast references IOTA in its series about "basic knowledge blockchain".

2019/07/31

T-Labs, the innovation lab of Deutsche Telekom, published a proof-of-concept called "xRide", a decentralized open mobility system based on identity and payment solutions by IOTA, ETH, Riddle & Code, UbirchGmbH (and others). According to John Calian, Senior Vice President and Head of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs, the blockchain scooter is going to be launched as a pilot on September 11th, 2019 in Bonn.

2019/05/11

An industry news portal reports that Ubirch GmbH developed a solution in collaboration with WZL/RWTH (IILA) and Deutsche Telekom Labs to save sensor data to the IOTA ledger.

2019/02/23

Alexander Renz (IF) is invited as juror to the Deutsche Telekom T-Labs Blockchain Mobility Hackathon in Barcelona, Spain.

2019/01/19

The IOTA Foundation is a community partner at the Deutsche Telekom "T-Labs Blockchain Identity Hackathon".

2018/10/27

Paul Douglas (IF) and Alexander Renz (IF) participate in the Deutsche Telekom "T-LabsHACK" event in Seatlle. Alexander Renz acts as one of the judges for the event. The winning team created a P2P WIFI sharing network based upon the IOTA token on top of hashtaX.

2018/09/13

Deutsche Telekom links to an article about IOTA expanding its strategic cooperations with Fujitsu, Bosch and Volkswagen

2018/07/09

Deutsche Telekom participates as key participant in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2018/04/19

T-Systems MMS announces a free webinar wherein the advantages of IOTA over traditional blockchains are explained

2017/12/01

Dominik Schiener is keynote speaker at the Deutsche Telekom blockchain hackathon

2017/10/18

Deutsche Telekom (T-Systems) confirms on Twitter that IOTA is a topic in an internal IoTDay presentation

2017/10/17

T-Systems refers to an IOTA article in a tweet

2017/04/17

T-Systems refers to IOTA on Facebook

$70.69 bn

520,000

Germany

Supply chain

2018/02/27

Representatives from DHL are present at an IOTA meetup for StartupAutobahn

$2.81 bn

14,954

Norway

Supply chain

2019/04/10

Sopra Steria hosts a meeting with its partners Entra, DNV GL Veracity, Mimiro-InFuture, NEXT Biometrics, Den Norske Bank, IOTA Foundation and other key Norwegian stakeholders "explore new pathways to value creation in the Internet-of-Things and the new digital economy".

2018/01

DNV GL joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Grmany

Academia

2020/02/04

Members of the Duale Hochschule Basden-Württemberg (DHBW) published a paper titled "Approach to a fair participation model in data revenue", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Policy

2019/07/02

Odyssey reports that ChainMix, one of the winning teams, is now developing an IOTA-based prototype with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK) in order to enable businesses to verify the validity of invoices.

$n.a.

n.a.

Turkey

Academia

2019/11/10

Members of the Dokuz Eylül University publishes a paper titled "A Blockchain Based Framework for Blood Distribution", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2020/02/17

The Fachhochschule Dortmund is offering a research position "Innovation for sustainable mobility: parking and recharging in the city", requiring "knowledge in blockchain architectures, ideally in IOTA".

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academic

2020/02/28

Members of the Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar College of Engineering contributed a chapter titled "Integration of Blockchain and Internet of Things" to the "Handbook of Research on Blockchain Technology", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Policy

2019/06/20

Odyssey tweets that one of the winning teams from VXCompany is now working with the Dutch Kadaster (land registry) on a "digital bulding dossier".

$25 bn

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/09/22

DXC Security tweets about its "secure framework for connecting cyber-physical systems", based on IOTA.

2019/09/19

DXC showcases its IOTA solutions offered to its clients at its "Innovation Day".

2019/08/26

DXC (an HP subsidiary) detailed its secure framework to connect cyber-physical systems, based on IOTA, designed to work online, offline and in mesh networking mode (when Wi-Fi or cellular networks are not available, in up to a 65-mile radius). The framework addresses two-way tamper-proof device communication, machine-to-machine micropayments, message transfer and data storage between devices.

2019/04/19

DXC publishes a press release about its collaboration with the IOTA Foundation for the presentation of the IOTA-based proof-of-concept at the Hannover Messe.

2019/01/29

DXC publishes an article detailing its proof of concept exploring no-fee M2M micropayments for a smart, decentralized solution to show how electric vehicles can make fast, secure, frictionless payments to charging stations based on IOTA.

2019/01/09

A video of a DXC proof-of-concept for a vehicle charging station and an IOTA car wallet is published, developed in collaboration by DXC and the Chennai Institute of Technology.

2018/05/16

The CTO of DXC is discussing IOTA with representatives of Vodafone and the CTO of General Electric at the WeAreDevelopers conference in Vienna

2018/04/24

DXC presents a robotic IOTA showcase at the 2018 Hannover trade fair

2018/04/19

DXC (a spin merger of Hewlett Packard Enterprise) announces its partnership with the IOTA foundation

$578.20 bn (balance)

30,279

Germany

Finance

2019/01/30

The DZ Bank AG, a central institute of 900 financial institutes, publishes an extensive article about IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Consulting

2019/09/25

D-Fine publishes an article detailing the smart parking proof-of-concept it developed in collaboration with Trive.me and the IOTA Foundation.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/05/31

Members of the East China Normal University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and University of Hyogo publish a paper on "Preimage Attacks on Reduced Troika with Divide-and-Conquer Methods".

$44 m

n.a.

Germany

it

2019/09/26

e-Shelter shares their video about their IOTA-based "next generation security and access management solution for data centers and other business applications."

2019/09/26

e-Shelter invites Janna Zielinski (IF) for a presentation about IOTA, the Jaguar Land Rover and Cretec proof of concepts and describes it as "a significant building block to master the challenges of the mobility industry".

2019/08/08

e-Shelter publishes a video about "Digital Access Management powered by Blockchain", explaining the "Co-Innovation Project: Digital Access Management", including an introduction to IOTA and an interview with Dominik Schiener (IF).

2019/04/01

E-shelter presents the IOTA-based access control system IAMPASS, developed by Akita Blockchain Solutions at the Hannover Trade Fair 2019.

2019/03/22

E-shelter announces that it will showcase an audit-compatible access control system using a hand vein scanner (based on IOTA) at the Hannover Messe 2019.

2018/11/14

E-shelter releases a video from their partner event, including quotes from Dominik Schiener (IF) and Rolf Werner (IF).

2018/09/27

The e-shelter services GmbH (Europe’s largest data center company) hosts an event "e-shelter Partnerforum 2018", inviting Dr. Rolf Werner (IF) and Dominik Schiener (IF) to present IOTA, as well as IamPass to showcase their IOTA-based palm vein scanner.

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

IT

2020/02/11

The Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation provides insights on the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group in a video.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation announced the founding of the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/06/04

Pierre Hoffmann (IF) is invited as speaker to the Eclipse IoT Day 2019 to talk about "Networks of trust in a connected world".

2017/12/21

The Eclipse foundation publishes a blog post describing a proof-of-concept for monetizing data using the IOTA network, including links to open source code on Github and an explanatory video.

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

Academia

2020/01/16

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal and Tomsk Polytechnic University published a paper titled "A Blockchain-based Framework for Lightweight Data Sharing and Energy Trading in V2G Network", based on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of the Technical University of Madrid, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Heilbronn University published a paper titled “Indoor Air-Quality Data-Monitoring System: Long-Term Monitoring Benefits”, referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2020/02/05

eCl@ss shares an interview (german) with the collaborators of the IOTA-based industrial marketplace.

2019/12/12

eCl@ss and the IOTA Foundation launch the "Industry Marketplace Hackathon" on hackster.io.

2019/11/01

Thorsten Kroke from eCl@ss, adresses the presentation of the IOTA Marketplace in the monthly eCl@ss newsletter.

2019/10/16

Torsten Kroke from eCl@ss discusses IoT, IOTA and the industrial marketplace at the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, including guests as Hitachi.

2019/09/19

Together with its partners Neoception, eCl@ss, University of Magdeburg, Helmuth Schmidt University and WeWash, IOTA launches the "Industrial Data Marketplace" to "enable increased Interconnectivity between Humans, Machines, and Machine Readable Contracts".

2019/09/19

eCl@ss invites Dominik Schiener (IF) and Holger Köther (IF) for presentations at its 7th eCl@ss Congress 2019

2019/06/03

Thorsten Kroke from eCl@ss showcases IoT demonstrations including eCl@ss standards and IOTA at the W3C "Web of Things Open Day", hosted by Siemens.

2019/05/31

Thorste Kroke from eCl@ss describes why IOTA "offers the best technique in the DLT", why it is more interesting for companies and the efforts of eCl@ass to establish a uniform data structure description for IOTA.

2019/04/08

The IOTA Foundation publishes a video of the IOTA-based eCl@ass demonstrator from the Hannover Trade Fair 2019, developed by Neoception and Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH.

2019/04/01

eCl@ss exhibits a set of precise sensors in a demonstrator at the Hannover Trade Fair 2019, further developed by the IOTA Foundation and Neoception. One of the sensors is e.g. measuring the distance to an object and categorizes the retrieved data through a specific, unique, standardized ID. Any measured distance is being immutably recorded as a data point on the Tangle. From that point, it is easily audible and can be purchased through a micro transaction.

2018/12/10

eCl@ss includes the IOTA Foundation official into their lits of partners on ther website.

2018/12/05

eCl@ss, a joint venture founded by (mostly) german industry giants to establish commonly used standards and the IOTA Foundation announce their partnership to "support the exchange of digital resources" and "introduce IOTA as a payment model for eCl@ss" as well as to "establish the eCl@ss standard in the data market as well as in the IOTA protocol".

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Academia

2018/01

The Ecole42 joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Academia

2018/08/23

An intern of the iCube Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure de Rennes (ENS) publishes his internship report “Tangle analysis for IOTA cryptocurrency”

$531 m

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2020/02/11

EDAG Engineering GmbH won the German Design Award for its IOTA-enabled CityBot concept.

2019/12/19

Johannes Barckmann and Alexander Süssemilch from EDAG Engineering explain status quo of the IOTA integration into the autonomous EDAG City Bot, as well as the IOTA-enabled Trive.me parking app.

2019/09/22

The Trive.me product owner tweets from the EDAG booth at the IAA where the EDAG City Bot is jointly presented with the IOTA team.

2019/09/11

EDAG Engineering presents its Trive.me "Citybot" at the IAA 2019 press conference, also explaining the advantages and integration of IOTA as communication protocol and payment solution.

2019/09/11

Holger Koether (IF), Jan Pauseback (IF) and Anne Smith (IF) are invited by EDAG Engineering to the presentation of its IOTA-enabled "CityBot" at the IAA2019 trade fair.

2019/09/10

The EDAG Engineering Group publishes a promotional video explaining its IOTA-enabled "Citybot", including services of the bot that are being paid in IOTA tokens.

2019/09/10

EDAG Engineering publishes a preview video of its IOTA-enabled "Citybot".

2019/08/22

EDAG Engineering‘s Trive.me lists IOTA as „prototypical feature“ for the second generation of its parking app solution.

2019/08/20

Edag Engineering announces to present its "EDAG City Bot" at the IAA 2019, an autonomous concept car including "digital micro-payment solutions of EDAG partner IOTA, [...] offering new, autonomous transport and working vehicles, but also possible new business models".

2019/08/20

Edag Engineering, through its subsidiary Trive.me announces a new parking solution including app, based on IOTA.

2019/05/23

Alexander Renz (IF) and Markus Soppa, the CEO of Accessec are invited as speakers to the 14th Handelsblat Jahrestagung, which is moderated by the EDAG Engineering GmbH CEO, to talk about "Blockchain and Mobility" and "Utility vehicles and new mobility concepts für blockchain".

2018/10/26

Alisa Maas (IF) and Andreas Osowski (IF) introduce IOTA to several automotive OEMs

2018/10/19

Edag Engineering GmbH publishes an article, announcing further development of concepts to utilize IOTA.

2018/09/20

Shadi Aburok and Alexander Süssemilch from Edag Engineering GmbH give a talk about "IOTA as M2M gateway for identification, verification and payment layer for off-street parking", based on their PoC at the Bayern Innovativ event

2018/08/30

Edag Engineering announces to host an event for automotive OEMs where IOTA use cases for the automotive industry, IOTA payment systems, e-wallets, autonomous driving, pay-per-use models and supply chain examples are presented and discussed.

2018/07/02

Dr. Andreas Böhm of the Cluster Automotive talks with Jacek Burger from EDAG Engineering GmbH about their developments regarding IOTA presented at the Ecosytem Highly Automated Driving, announcing more to come in autumn

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2020/01/27

Members of the Edith Cowan University, Canberra Institute of Technology and Southeast University Bangladesh published a book titled "Security Analytics for the Internet of Everything", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Academia

2019/07/31

Members of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich publish a paper on "Managing mistrust in construction using DLT: a review of use-case categories for technical design decisions", certifying IOTA excellent properties.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Energy

2019/12/30

ElaadNL publishes its annual review including all major events, R&D; innovations, mentioning IOTA.

2019/06/05

IOTA shares a booth with Enexis and ElaadNL at CIRED 2019, the 25th international conference on electricity distribution.

2019/02/14

ElaadNL publishes details of its proof-of-concept, developed in collaboration with Enexis, of a self-balancing energy smart grid, incentivized through IOTA-tokens.

2019/01/10

Elaad showcases a proof-of-concept, developed in collaboration with Enexis, of a self-balancing electric grid at an IOTA meetup and publishes an accompanying article.

2018/12/12

Harm van den Brink (IF)/ElaadNL and Terry Shane of the bIOTAsphere talk about how they are using novel technologies, and in particular IOTA, to accelerate the evolution of electric vehicles.

2018/10/29

Elaad publishes a new video in which they showcase their testing of different EV charging stations, including an IOTA-powered charging station.

2018/10/31

According to a comment on Discord by Harm van den Brink, ElaadNL is working on a (partially virtual) energy grid balancing system, that is able to autonomously balance itself by [automatically] asking grid participants (machines) to lower or raise their energy demand, all registered and stored on the Tangle. Collaborators are incentivised through a small IOTA fee in return.

2018/04/19

ElaadNL reveals the first fully automated electric vehicle charging station based on IOTA

2017/10/31

ElaadNL reveals a PoC IOTA charging station

$n.a.

n.a.

Andorra

Energy

2018/05

ElectriCChain is looking "to get a simple data logger to connect to the IOTA chain".

2016/06/01

The partners ElectriCChain, SolarCoin, Solcrypto, Bitseed, IOTA, and RWE, the first Chain of Things Case Study Event focused on the secure logging of solar energy production data to a distributed blockchain ledger

$n.a.

n.a.

Korea

Academia

2019/02/22

Members of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute publish a paper "Data-Centric Hyper-distributed Autonomous Infrastructure Technologies", comparing different architectures, including IOTA.

$155m

n.a.

Estonia

Energy

2018/01

Elering joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$22.13 bn

20,305

Germany

Energy

2018/01

EnBW invites a representative from Fujitsu to explain how IOTA and Hyperledger can enhance traditional databases while being compliant to GDPR.

$n.a.

n.a.

Denmark

Energy

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/09/01

The IOTA Foundation publishes a brochure detailing the efforts of the smart city working group within the +CityXChange, consisting of ENGIE Lab, Energinet, Trianel, Entra, TronderEnergi and Enexis.

2019/01/30

Energinet and the IOTA Foundation sign a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in experimentation with the IOTA Tangle in the IoT and energy market domains.

$n.a.

n.a.

Bulgaria

Energy

2018/07/06

The Energy Agency of Plovdiv participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Energy

2018/07

A sensor of Enervolution GmbH is spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace

$1.64 bn

4,500

Netherlands

Energy

2019/09/01

The IOTA Foundation publishes a brochure detailing the efforts of the smart city working group within the +CityXChange, consisting of ENGIE Lab, Energinet, Trianel, Entra, TronderEnergi and Enexis.

2019/06/05

IOTA shares a booth with Enexis and ElaadNL at CIRED 2019, the 25th international conference on electricity distribution.

2019/02/14

ElaadNL publishes details of its proof-of-concept, developed in collaboration with Enexis, of a self-balancing energy smart grid, incentivized through IOTA-tokens.

2019/01/10

Elaad showcases a proof-of-concept developed in collaboration with Enexis of a self-balancing electric grid at an IOTA meetup and publishes an accompanying article.

2019/01/10

Jan-Peter Doormernik from Enexis speaks at the fourth Dutch IOTA Meetup

2018/01

The Enexis Groep joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$79.3 bn

153,090

France

Energy

2020/02/12

Engie Lab Crigen announced its participation in the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/09/12

The IOTA Foundation releases a video about "Cities of the future", showing the collaboration in energy traceability of Jaguar Land Rover, Engie Lab Crigen & Entra.

2019/09/01

The IOTA Foundation publishes a brochure detailing the efforts of the smart city working group within the +CityXChange, consisting of ENGIE Lab, Energinet, Trianel, Entra, TronderEnergi and Enexis.

2019/09/01

A leaflet of the partners IOTA, Jaguar Land Rover, Engie Lab Crigen and Entra, describing the Trondheim Powerhouse proof-of-concept is published.

2019/08/30

The IOTA Foundation shares a stand with SopraSteria at the Powerhouse Festival Trondheim, where they demonstrate a proof-of-concept for smart cities, developed in collaboration with EngieLabCrigen and Entra ASA's positive energy building.

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

2019/02/13

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies publishes an article outlining the setup of the surplus energy building in Brattørkaia, Trondheim, and the meeting of leaders from Engie Lab Crigen, Entra, IOTA Foundation, NTNU, POWEL, Trianel, Trondheim municipality and TrønderEnergi to explore new energy solutions and business models around IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.

2018/09/06

ENGIE Lab CRIGEN, the corporate research center of the ENGIE Group, a global energy player and an expert operator in electricity, natural gas and energy services and the IOTA Foundation sign a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in experimentation with the IOTA Tangle in the energy and related IoT domains

2018/05/28

Engie Lab participates in an IOTA hackathon at Ecole42

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

IT

2020/02/08

Members of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., the Cyberethics Lab and British Telecom plc published a chapter in the book "Blockchain: enabling trust in the internet of things", referencing IOTA.

$180 m

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2019/09/12

The IOTA Foundation releases a video about "Cities of the future", showing the collaboration in energy traceability of Jaguar Land Rover, Engie Lab Crigen & Entra.

2019/09/01

The IOTA Foundation publishes a brochure detailing the efforts of the smart city working group within the +CityXChange, consisting of ENGIE Lab, Energinet, Trianel, Entra, TronderEnergi and Enexis.

2019/09/01

A leaflet of the partners IOTA, Jaguar Land Rover, Engie Lab Crigen and Entra, describing the Trondheim Powerhouse proof-of-concept is published.

2019/08/30

The IOTA Foundation shares a stand with SopraSteria at the Powerhouse Festival Trondheim, where they demonstrate a proof-of-concept for smart cities, developed in collaboration with EngieLabCrigen and Entra ASA's positive energy building.

2019/04/10

Sopra Steria hosts a meeting with its partners Entra, DNV GL Veracity, Mimiro-InFuture, NEXT Biometrics, Den Norske Bank, IOTA Foundation and other key Norwegian stakeholders "explore new pathways to value creation in the Internet-of-Things and the new digital economy".

2019/02/13

+CityxChange tweets about the recent workshop with Entra ASA, Powel AS, TrønderEnergi, the NTNU and FourC AS around the Brattørkaia energy surplus building, trading energy over IOTA.

2019/02/13

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies publishes an article outlining the setup of the surplus energy building in Brattørkaia, Trondheim, and the meeting of leaders from Engie Lab Crigen, Entra, IOTA Foundation, NTNU, POWEL, Trianel, Trondheim municipality and TrønderEnergi to explore new energy solutions and business models around IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.

2018/09/28

Entra ASA is building a surplus energy house, the "Powerhouse Brattørkaia" (Trondheim, Norway) in collaboration with Trønderenergi, producing more energy than is used for the production of building materials, operation and disposal of the building. IOTA will be used as the crypto-technology to deliver and charge for the energy. The building thus will be part of a large-scale demo project for how to utilize and control energy distribution between different actors in a neighborhood. The "Powerhouse Brattørkaia" is part of the EU project "+ CityxChange".

2018/09/02

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies joins the IOTA data marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

2018/01

EPM joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$31.4 bn

250,000

Germany

Consulting

2019/12/11

A job ad from Ernst & Young (EY) reveals that the consultancy already has a "IoT City Showcase" based on IOTA.

2019/12/11

Ernst & Young (EY) is looking to fill the position of "Internship/Working Student Audit Digital, Audit Beyond Blockchain", working with a focus on "DLTs beyond blockchain like, e.g., IOTA".

2019/06/06

Dominik Schiener is invited by Ernst&Young; to their EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year event as speaker for the "Entrepreneur-only and Industry session" to talk about "Future cities and mobility".

2019/01/14

Ernst & Young invite Dominik Schiener (IF) and Julie Maupin (IF) to speak at their Dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

2018/01

Ernst & Young joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

2016/12/27

Zuehlke sponsors an IOTA hackathon “HacktheValley” at Thomson Reuters and EY

$3.97 bn

7,870

Ireland

Energy

2018/07/06

ESB Networks participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$1.55 bn

n.a.

Ireland

Energy

2018/07/06

ESB Innovation RoI Ltd. participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$21.94 bn

n.a.

Sweden

Communication

2019/05/23

A patent application filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) LLC is published, describing “Method and arrangement for detecting digital content tampering“, referencing IOTA.

2018/11/21

Ericsson supports the Data Unchained Datathon of the Axiata Group Berhad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, including 300 participants, sponsored by the IOTA Foundation and supported by Lewis Freiberg (IF), Microsoft, Google, Ericsson and further companies.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/11/28

A patent application filed by Essence Security International Ltd is published, describing means to “Guarding a device against a cyber threat“, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Belgium

Energy

2017/11

Eurelectric publishes a report on "Freedom of Charging: Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technology for seamless Electro-mobility", mentioning IOTA.

2017/11/11

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited by Pöyry and Eurelectric ("Union of the Electricity Industry" with 100+ national unions and corporations as members) to present IOTA.

$3.82 bn

35,000

Luxemburg

Other

2019/12/10

The IOTA Foundation collaborates with Felleskjøpet Agri, InFuture, Yara International, Eurofins TINE SA and Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet (NMBU) on a Smart Farming proof-of-concept.

$n.a.

n.a.

Europe

Policy

2019/09/01

The European Central Bank refers to a system that is DLT, but not a blockchain, yet scalable.

$n.a.

n.a.

Europe

Policy

2020/01/21

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited by the European Commission to present on "Energy Services".

2019/10/08

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) and Pierre Hoffmann (IF) are invited as speakers on “Co-creating Open & Transparent Data Marketplaces” in Belgium, an event jointly organised by AIOTI and the European Commission.

2019/04/28

The IOTA Foundation becomes a founding member of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

2019/04/08

The IOTA Foundation publishes a video with comments from Dominik Schiener (IF) and Julie Maupin, attending the digital signing of the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) from the European Commission headquarters.

2019/04/03

The International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA), publishes a press release about its official launch, announcing Julie Maupin (IF) as one of its ten (and only DLT-related) board members.

2019/02/03

Julie Maupin (IF) is participating in an event in preparation of the launch of the "International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA)".

2018/11/20

Julie Maupin (IF) is participating in an discussion of the EC about "to laying the groundwork for an EU backed public private partnership dedicated to promoting DLT/IoT/AI innovation in Europe".

2018/10/16

The "European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology" and the "Directorate-General for Energy" invite IOTA to a panel discussion on „Open marketplaces to spur innovative energy services".

2018/05/22

Julie Maupin (IF), Oliver Bussmann (IF) and Jamie Burke (Outlier Ventures, early IOTA investor) become members of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum

$n.a.

n.a.

Europe

Infrastructure

2019/09/27

The IOTA Foundation officially joined forces with the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) and EIT Climate KIC, the leading bodies of the European Union to connect and scale sustainable solutions across the continent.

$n.a.

n.a.

Europe

Infrastructure

2019/10/22

The IOTA Foundation publishes an update of the ongoing efforts with its partners like Powel and SmartMPower of the +CityxChange project under the EU Horizon 2020 project of the European Commission.

2019/10/14

The +CityxChange tweets about the video of the positive energy building "Powerhouse Brattørkaia" in Trondheim, based on IOTA.

2019/09/01

The IOTA Foundation publishes a brochure detailing the efforts of the smart city working group within the +CityXChange, consisting of ENGIE Lab, Energinet, Trianel, Entra, TronderEnergi and Enexis.

2019/08/31

A video of the presentation of the IOTA Foundation and Jaguar Land Rover from the +CityxChange event at the NTNUin Trondheim is published.

2019/08/28

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) joins Jaguar Land Rover and +CityxChange at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in a presentation on "the potential of DLT / Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Smart cities at the crossroads of energy, mobility, real estate and urban planning".

2019/02/13

+CityxChange tweets about the updates provided by Entra ASA on the workshop surrounding the Brattørkaia surplus energy building running on IOTA.

2018/11/07

Harm van den Brink (IF) and Wilfried Pimanta (IF) attend the kickoff event of the European Smart City Consortium +CityxChange in Trondheim, Norway.

2018/07/07

The +CityxChange proposal was invited by the EU Commission to become a new smart city lighthouse project. The project is driven by 7 cities, 30 partners, including two Universities, six Large enterprises, two distributed network operators, eleven SMEs and two not-for-Profit organisations, including IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Other

2019/09/11

Mathew Yarger (IF) and Florioan Doebler (IF) are invited as speakers to represent IOTA by the European Space Agency to its "Phiweek".

2019/09/02

European Space Agency lists Julie Maupin (IF) as a speaker for "Why We Need a Collaborative Data Commons" at the "ESA Phiweek".

2017/11/29

Julie Maupin (IF) and Samuel Reid (IF) are invited by the European Space Agency to discuss "exciting cooperation opportunities in LoRaWAN, spectrum management, and Earth observation".

$10 m

n.a.

India

IT

2017/08/31

Wilfried Pimenta announces partnership between IOTA and Evernym to create a new digital identity

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/12/11

Michele Nati (IF) is invited by the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) to present IOTA, as well as Dominique Guinard, the CEO of Evrythng.

2019/12/11

Evrythng invites to the London Meetup at which its CEO Dominik Guinard will speak about "transparency in the fashion industry".

2019/10/10

Evrythng tweets about its partnership with the IOTA Foundation, Avery Denison, 1017 Alyx 9SM and Origin Trail.

2019/10/02

Evrythng tweets about its collaboration with IOTA.

2019/09/02

In a video, Dominique Guinard, founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG, talks about the collaboration with IOTA for supply chain transparency and the reasons why IOTA is interesting: energy efficiency + zero transaction fees

2019/05/15

Evrythng, Avery Dennison, 1017 ALYX 9SM and the IOTA Foundation publish the result of their collaboration for a supply chain tracking solution that is already in production (see link), based on the IOTA Tangle.

2019/02/26

Evrythng publishes its Reactor connector as open source repository.

2019/01/11

Evrythng announces the angoing development of the integration of their platform with IOTA.

2018/09/25

Evrythng invites Michele Nati (IF) to present on "DLTs & Supply Chains: Use cases and business opportunities with IOTA & Evrythng".

$9.05 bn

9,048

Germany

Energy

2018/01

EWE joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$85 m

750

Germany

Consulting

2019/10/29

Exxeta AG publishes a 1-hour video of an internal presentation about IOTA.

2019/01/24

The Exxeta AG hosts a meetup for IOTA and blockchain applications.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Other

2018/01

Farmboek joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Other

2018/01

Farmforce joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/02/19

Members of the North China Electric Power University, Fayetteville State University, Temple University and Qatar University publish a paper on "When Energy Trading Meets Blockchain in Electrical Power System: The State of the Art", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Brazil

Academia

2019/09/14

Members of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of ABC publish a paper titled "Analyzing transaction security of the IOTA electronic payment system", in which they analyze the IOTA Tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2020/01/09

Members of the Federation University Australia published a paper titled "Blockchain Leveraged Decentralized IoT eHealth Framework", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Brazil

Academia

2019/09/14

Members of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of ABC publish a paper titled "Analyzing transaction security of the IOTA electronic payment system", in which they analyze the IOTA Tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2018/12/11

Feintool releases an article describing the use of their machines within the IOTA-based fineblanking process.

$1.05 bn

1735

Norway

Other

2019/12/10

The IOTA Foundation collaborates with Felleskjøpet Agri, InFuture, Yara International, Eurofins TINE SA and Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet (NMBU) on a Smart Farming proof-of-concept.

$3.55 bn

20,100

Germany

Electronics

2019/07/02

Lidbot (TwoIoT) publishes a video, mentioning that "40+ clients are waiting for sensor completion", as well as further proof-of-concepts with American Airlines, Festo and Alba Suez.

2018/01

Festo joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/01/08

A representative from Finaris Financial Software Partner GmbH announces a presentation on automated data processing and storing in the IOTA Tangle at the Digital Future Congress

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/10/23

The Fiware Foundation announces its official collaboration with the IOTA Foundation.

2019/10/23

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited as speaker to the FiWare Global Summit to talk about "How to transform Smart Cities into MachineEconomies?".

2018/10/17

The Fiware Foundation presents on "Predictive Maintenance across different IoT platforms using open source", naming IOTA as reference architecture.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2020/01/30

A member of the Florida Institute of Technology published his master thesis titled "A blockchain approach for negotiating trust in IoT", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2019/05/09

A patent application filed by Flow Immersive Inc is published, describing an “Augmented virtual reality”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2018/04/23

FlyNex announces its participation in the Hannover trade fair, marking IOTA in its announcement

$156.78 bn

202,000

USA

Mobility

2019/05/07

Daniel Trauth of the IILA tweets about representatives from Ford, visiting for a presentation of the IOTA use-case.

2018/09/25

A representative from Ford Smart Mobility Solutions holds a keynote speech about "Smart vehicles in a smart world" at the Chicago Connectory

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which also Ford is a member.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2018/12/30

Members of the University Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College and Fordham University publish a paper on "A Review on Crypto-Currency Transactions Using IOTA ".

2018/12/21

The IOTA Foundation publishes a video of the talks at the Humanitarian Blockchain Summit at Fordham University.

2018/12/07

Mariana De La Roche (IF) represents IOTA in a workshop about "Scenarios from the IOTA ecosystem" at the "2nd Humanitarian Blockchain Summit" by the Fordham University.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Energy

2018/06/05

The non-profit organisation "Forschungsstelle für Energiewirtschaft" releases a study on "Transformation in the energy sector" in which it mentions IOTA as one of the dominating technologies.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/12/10

Jelle Millenaar is invited to an IOTA Meetup organised by the Forschungszentrum Informatik, including presentations of Jörg Nagel from Neoception GmbH, Simone Giehl from Zühlke Engineering GmbH, Martin Unterberg of the RWTH Aachen, Raphael Manke of the Forschungszentrum Informatik and Niclas Kannengießer of the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT).

2019/12/10

The Forschungszentrum Informatik hosts an IOTA meetup on its premises in Karlsruhe, Germany. Raphael Manke of the FZI presents on "Decentralized data management for IoT data streams using the IOTA Tangle"

2019/09/12

Members of the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, publish a paper on "An Open Multimodal Mobility Platform Based on Distributed Ledger Technology", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

IT

2019/02/13

+CityxChange tweets about the recent workshop with Entra ASA, Powel AS, TrønderEnergi, the NTNU and FourC AS around the Brattørkaia energy surplus building, trading energy over IOTA.

2018/07/06

FourC AS participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Greece

Academia

2019/10/07

Members of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) and the University of Patras publish a paper titled "Using Blockchains to Enable Big Data Analysis of Private Information", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/05/14

Members of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center publish a paper titled "Blockchain Business Models for Autonomous IoT Sensor Devices", referencing IOTA.

2019/04/16

The head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center shares an article on "Blockchain Business Models for Autonomous IoT Sensor Devices", listing the extensive advantages of IOTA over blockchains.

2018/11/23

Bosch's Product Owner for DLTs in mobility, Peter Busch, is quoted with "Bosch is very close to use IoT together with IOTA" after his presentation at the Frankfurt School of Blockchain.

2018/01

The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/05/16

Members of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and University of Plymouth publish a paper on "Distributed Ledger Technology for Trust Management Optimisation in M2M", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/12/13

Members of the Free University of Berlin and the Fraunhofer Institute publish an article in the german industry journal "Datenschutz und Datensicherheit", referencing IOTA in its volume "Ensuring long-term security for Breeder documents through biometrics and blockchain technology"

2019/09/11

Members of the Fraunhofer Institute publish a paper titled "Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in automotive use cases", focusing on IOTA.

2019/09/03

Members of the RWTH Aachen and Fraunhofer FKIE published an academic paper on “Dataflow Challenges in an Internet of Production: A Security & Privacy Perspective” providing further details of their IOTA-based fineblanking PoC

2019/08/23

Members of the Fraunhofer Institute, Claas E-Systems KGaA mbH and Diebold Nixdorf publish a paper on "Smart Contracts und Smart Payment im Farming 4.0", referencing IOTA.

2019/08/23

T-Systems features Alexander Ebeling and Yannik Lockl of the Fraunhofer FIT BlockchainLab with their IOTA-based platooning prototype in its podcast.

2019/08/03

A member of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering publishes a paper on "Data Marketplaces: Trends and Monetisation of Data Goods", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/02

Members of the Technical University Berlin and Fraunhofer Institute publish a paper on "Industry 4.0 as enabler for a sustainable development: A qualitative assessment of its ecological and social potential", referencing IOTA.

2019/06/27

Students of the Fraunhofer Institute win the pitch at the DLD Conference with their IOTA-based platooning demonstrator.

2019/05/24

The Fraunhofer Institute presents its IOTA-based platooning prototype at the german Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI) blockchain forum.

2019/05/23

The Fraunhofer Institute publishes an article detailing its IOTA-based platooning prototype.

2019/04/14

The Fraunhofer Institute publishes another video about its IOTA-based platooning proof of concept.

2019/02/15

Students from the Fraunhofer Institute present their IOTA-based Platooning proof-of-concept at the BMW Information Technology Center during the MOBI Grand Challenge.

2019/02/14

The Fraunhofer Institute publishes a video on their IOTA based platooning proof of concept.

2019/02/14

The IOTA-based platooning proof of concept developed by the Fraunhofer Institute wins the third place during the MOBI Grand Challenge

2019/02/13

Fraunhofer Institute publishes an official press release regarding the IOTA-based platooning proof of concept developed by its students and faculty staff.

2019/02/06

Jannik Lockl from the Fraunhofer Institute presents several projects, including the mobility platooning proof-of-concept based on IOTA.

2019/01/29

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology BlockchainLab developed a Proof-of-Concept to exchange transactions via IOTA tokens during a competition.

2018/01

Florian Albert from the Fraunhofer IAO presents on "Trends in mobility: Application scenarios for blockchain and DLTs for mobility" at the IOTA Munich Community meetup.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2020/02/14

Members of the Cardiff University and Fre University Berlin published a paper titled "Performance of Tip Selection Schemes in DAG Blockchains", referencing IOTA.

2019/12/13

Members of the Free University of Berlin and the Fraunhofer Institute publish an article in the german industry journal "Datenschutz und Datensicherheit", referencing IOTA in its volume "Ensuring long-term security for Breeder documents through biometrics and blockchain technology"

$150 m

180

Great Britain

Consulting

2018/04/15

A document from Frost and Sullivan appears, outlining the advantages of IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2020/01/07

Members of the Fudan University and University of California published a paper titled "Effective scaling of blockchain beyond consensus innovations and Moore’s law", referencing IOTA.

$41.02 bn

156,000

Germany

Electronics

2019/07/18

Fujitsu presents its IOTA-based proof-of-concept at the Daimler EDM CAE Forum.

2019/07/09

Hamoun Karami of Lidbot notes that they "just spoke with head of Europe from Fujitsu - they want to talk about Lidbot & IF collaboration".

2019/04/01

Fujitsu publishes an article detailing its showcases for the upcoming Hannover trade fair 2019 and describes how it will "demonstrate how IOTA can be used to track component and process data as part of supply chain management and how it can be stored unalterably in the IOTA Tangle – for example, as proof of original components or for warranty management".

2019/03/19

Fujitsu confirms that it will present their IOTA-based robot showcase at the Hannover Messe 2019.

2019/03

Fujitsu announces to present its Industry 4.0 IOTA-based showcase at the Hannover Messe 2019.

2018/11/08

Fujitsu Central Europe tweets about the three evolutions of blockchain, naming IOTA as the example for its latest iteration of solutions that scale.

2018/11/07

The Fujitsu EMEA CTO Dr. Joseph Reger mentions IOTA as being the third iteration from DLT over blockchain to current technology in his keynote speech at the Fujitsu Forum 2018.

2018/09/14

Fujitsu anounces to host an expert talk about using Iota along the supply chain, manufacturing process, and product lifecycle during their Fujitsu Forum 2018

2018/08/29

Fujitsu Netherlands reaffirms the partnership with IOTA and states its main objective of applying the tangle technology to ensure the originality of parts and thus administer supply chain in an effective manner in a tweet

2018/08/25

Fujitsu publishes a description about their PoC for production quality in manufacturing and how it can be documented in an audit trail through IOTA, announcing its readyness to roll out its IOTA solution as the new industry standard

2018/08/06

A lead engineer from Fujitsu reveals in an interview that Fujitsu starts working on IOTA related implementations with interested customers

2018/08/03

Fujitsu publishes a document titled "Media Backgrounder Blockchain", mentioning IOTA.

2018/05/29

Fujitsu showcases their IOTA proof-of-concept during their Fujitsu World Tour in Stockholm

2018/04/24

Videos and images of Fujitsus IOTA showcase at the 2018 Hannover trade fair

2018/04/19

Representatives from Fujitsu particpate in a presentation of Samuel Reid (IF core developer) at the Google Campus in Madrid

2018/04/13

Fujitsu publishes an article explaining IOTAs advantages over conventional blockchain based DLTs

2018/04/09

The CEO of Fujitsu presents Fujitsus IOTA-based IoT showcase to a german economy minister of state Franz-Josef Pschierer.

2018/03/20

Fujitsu publishes an article describing the most important trends within the international industry, featuring IOTA

2018/02/07

Fujitsu meets with Dominik Schiener (IF) discuss future potentials of Industry 4.0

2017/11/26

The CEO of Fujitsu takes a selfie with Dominik Schiener at Berlin Airport

2017/11/08

The Fujitsu CEO mentions the plan to use IOTA in a keynote speech

2017/09/19

An article by the Fujitsu CEO mentioning IOTA is published in a traditional german econimic newspaper

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2020/01/16

Fundstrat Global Advisors published a 72-page report on IOTA for institutional investors, suggesting a potential for a valuation of $702 bn in 2035

2019/11/21

Tom Lee, former chief US equity strategist for JP Morgan, founder and head of Fundstrat Global Advisors provides his view on the topic of automation and the potential of IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Finland

Other

2019/09/12

Fuse, a finnish startup, combines laser marking, RFID and IOTA to "fuse these technologies to create a system that can trace who when and where something is installed".

$n.a.

n.a.

Ireland

Consulting

2018/07/06

Future Analytics Consulting Ltd. participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Consulting

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

$25 m

n.a.

USA

IT

2018/06/20

Gambit Communications publishes a short blog post about how the company sends telemetry from sensors through IOTA MAM channels

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/07/25

A patent application filed by Geeq Corporation is published, describing “Blockchain methods, nodes, systems and products”, referencing IOTA.

$122.09 bn

295,000

USA

Energy

2018/09/13

Jochen Renz (IF) presents IOTA during the "GE Innovations Showcase" event

2018/05/16

The CTO of DXC is discussing IOTA with representatives of Vodafone and the CTO of General Electric at the WeAreDevelopers conference in Vienna

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Other

2019/12/10

The Genossenschaft Traduko met with Julie Maupin (IF) and Mariana de la Roche (IF) in Berlin for a workshop.

2019/06/12

Traduko announces that it now offers IOTA as payment option.

2018/12/12

Traduko expresses their interest in the fee-less transfer of value, specifically the IOTA token, for their translation business, mentioning more to come "in due time".

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2020/02/02

The GeoDB CTO attended the IOTA meetup hoested by Sopra Steria in Madrid.

2019/11/20

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited as speaker to represent IOTA at the Blockchain Leadership Summit 2019 in Barcelona, also meeting representatives from GeoDB.

2019/01/10

GeoDB evaluates IOTA and publishes an implementation on Github.

2018/11/01

GeoDB reports of their participation in the Alastria Open Call and its evaluation of IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/12/31

Members of the Harvard University and Georgia Institute of Technology published a paper titled "IOTA: A Cryptographic Perspective", analysing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

Energy

2020/02/11

Geometric Energy announced its participation in the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2020/01/02

Geometric Energy tweets that it is "now selling an IOTA integrated SATCOM solution provided in partnership with Kanooq and SkyWave Mobile Communications, a subsidiary of Orbcomm, connected to Inmarsat".

2018/11/09

Samuel Reid mentions that Geometric Energy "is launching new products soon including SATCOM with IOTA integration".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

NGO

2018/11/06

A video of the panel discussion including Julie Maupin (IF) representing IOTA for the "The Nexus of Blockchain and Space" is published by the IAF.

2018/10/02

Julie Maupin (IF) represents IOTA as a panelist for "The Nexus of Blockchain and Space" in a joint initiative with the GIZ and Orbit Recycling at the 69th international astronautical congress in Bremen, Germany.

$n.a.

n.a.

Japan

Electronics

2019/04/09

BiiLabs tweets about their collaboration with Gigabyte to provide DLT ready appliances through Gigabyte, storing data in the IOTA Tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

Ireland

Energy

2018/07/06

GKinetic Energy Ltd. participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2019/07/25

Global Blockchain Ventures, a US-based venture capital fund, lists the IOTA Foundation as their partner on its website.

$136.84 bn

98,771

USA

IT

2018/11/21

Google supports the Data Unchained Datathon of the Axiata Group Berhad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, including 300 participants, sponsored by the IOTA Foundation and supported by Lewis Freiberg (IF), Microsoft, Google, Ericsson and further companies.

2018/04/19

Representatives from Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG particpate in a presentation of Samuel Reid (IF) at the Google Campus in Madrid

$n.a.

n.a.

Worldwide

Policy

2019/12/11

Michele Nati (IF) is invited by the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) to present IOTA, as well as Dominique Guinard, the CEO of Evrythng.

2018/04/19

The Government Blockchain Association invites Jens Munch Lund-Nielsen (IF) to join a panel, discussing DLT supply chain solutions

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Governmental

2018/06/05

Ralf Rottmann (IF) is asked to join the state Advisory board of the Economy of the government North Rhine-Westphalia (not specifically in his capacity as IF director)

$n.a.

n.a.

Singapore

Infrastructure

2018/09/16

Dominik Schiener meets with representatives of the government of Singapore

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

Infrastructure

2019/05/31

Dominik Schiener (IF) meets with the Chief Information Officer of the City of Taipei.

2019/05/31

Dominik Schiener (IF) meets with a minister of the Taiwanese National Development Council.

2019/01/22

Jason Hsu, member of the Taiwanese Parliament, details Taiwans plans to set up a "blockchain special economic zone" and mentions IOTA as a leading example of a DLT community productively focused on building actual real world use cases.

2018/05/31

Members of the Taiwanese government visit the IOTA Foundation in Berlin

2018/03/28

The Taiwanese Government invites Julie Maupin (IF) to meet with ministers of the taiwanese government to discuss a national IoT strategy.

2018/01/30

Tapei, the capital of Taiwan announces a partnership with the IOTA Foundation and BiiLabs to incorporate DLT into smart city applications, starting with TangleID citizen cards

2017/11/28

Lewis Freiberg meets with members of the Taiwanese parliament

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2020/02/05

Ariwonto and Grakn AI held a meeting, presenting on "How to use IOTA on Grakn, and the future of distributed ledger and large scale IoT"

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

Academia

2019/06/12

Students of the University of Lima and the Grande Prairie Regional College present their project IOTA-based aquaponics project "Ayni".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2018/11/20

The IILA celebrates their complete integration of a digital twin on the IOTA tangle of their fineblanking manufacturing process, developed in cooperation with Grandcentrix and publishes an extensive video explaining their integration and processes.

2018/01/12

Grandcentrix publishes a screenshot of weather data being collected and published on the IOTA Data Marketplace

2018/01

Grandcentrix joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

2017/12/31

The IILA publihes its 5th status report on their collaboration with Grandcentrix on inclusion of IOTA micro-payments, secure audit trails and zero-marginal costs based on the IOTA tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2019/02/14

A patent application filed by Gridplus Inc. is published, describing a “System for secure storage of cryptographic keys”, referencing IOTA.

$58.4 bn

120,136

France

Mobility

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Other

2019/05/14

A patent application filed by Gsfm LLC is published, describing “Methods, systems, and devices for an encrypted and obfuscated algorithm in a computing environment“, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2018/09/12

The GSM Association, a bodz representing the interests of worldwide mobile network operators, publishes an extensive paper comparing six "solutions" (Hyperledger, IOTA, EThereum, Ripple, Sovrin and BigchainDB)

2018/07

The GSM Association publishes a paper on "Blockchain – Operator Opportunities", referncing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

IT

2018/12/12

Hivemind presents in the IOTA meetup in Zurich, hosted by Swicsscom.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Academia

2018/01

The Handelshøskolen joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Sweden

IT

2019/11/28

A patent application filed by Haj Enterprise AB is published, describing “A system and a method for achieving consensus between multiple parties on an event”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of the Technical University of Madrid, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Heilbronn University published a paper titled “Indoor Air-Quality Data-Monitoring System: Long-Term Monitoring Benefits”, referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/12/31

Members of the Harvard University and Georgia Institute of Technology published a paper titled "IOTA: A Cryptographic Perspective", analysing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Jordan

Academia

2020/02/05

Members of the British University in Dubai, Hashemite University and the University of Dubai published a paper titled "Towards building a blockchain framework for IoT", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2018/08/16

HealtHie Nevada publishes an article analyzing the potential of blockchains for health-related records, naming IOTA and Ethereum the most promising technologies.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of the Technical University of Madrid, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Heilbronn University published a paper titled “Indoor Air-Quality Data-Monitoring System: Long-Term Monitoring Benefits”, referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Finland

Infrastructure

2019/11/15

Heliostorage, a finnish startup focused on emission free heating solutions, announces that its "IOTA based BTES controller went live [today]", adding that "chose IOTA and the tangle to provide the connection because of the high security, reliability and authentication services provided by the IOTA tangle. It also makes it possible for us to minimize the IT inside the controller, which reduces the cost of the controller unit and need for maintenance visits to the site, which in turn further improve the economy of the system".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/09/19

Together with its partners Neoception, eCl@ss, University of Magdeburg, Helmuth Schmidt University and WeWash, IOTA launches the "Industrial Data Marketplace" to "enable increased Interconnectivity between Humans, Machines, and Machine Readable Contracts".

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Academia

2018/03/20

Members of the Haute école de gestion Fribourg publishes a paper "Alternative Distributed Ledger Technologies Blockchain vs. Tangle vs. Hashgraph - A High-Level Overview and Comparison".

$52.18 bn

50,000

USA

IT

2020/02/06

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Hiding Identity of Transacting Party in Distributed Ledger Transaction by Hashing Distributed Ledger Transaction ID Using Secured Representation of Distributed Ledger Address of Transacting Party as a Key”, referencing IOTA

2020/02/06

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Providing Transaction Provenance of Off-Chain Transactions Using Distributed Ledger Transactions With Secured Representations of Distributed Ledger Addresses of Transacting Parties”, referencing IOTA

2020/02/06

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for using Distributed Attestation to Verify Claim of Attestation Holder”, referencing IOTA.

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Using Secured Representations of Location and User Distributed Ledger Addresses to Prove User Presence at a Location and Time”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Using Secured Representations of User, Asset, and Location Distributed Ledger Addresses to Prove User Custody of Assets at a Location and Time”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Using Smart Contact and Light and Sound Emitting Assets Provisioned with Distributed Ledger Addresses to Identify and Locate Assets”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Using Captured Time Series of Secured Representations of Distributed Ledger Addresses and Smart Contract Deployed on Distributed Ledger Network to Prove Compliance”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Associating a User Claim Proven Using a Distributed Ledger Identity with a Centralized Identity of the User”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods for Capturing Time Series Dataset Over Time That Includes Secured Representations of Distributed Ledger Addresses”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise was published, describing “Systems and Methods of Obtaining Verifiable Image of Entity by Embedding Secured Representation of Entitys Distributed Ledger Address in Image”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2019/03/01

The CEO of Things Lab presents IOTA to 50 managers of Hewlett Packard Italy.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2018/12/05

The IOTA Foundation releases an introductory video titled "How to Send Car Data over the IOTA Tangle using MAM and the High-Mobility API" on how blueprints can be created on the High Mobility platform.

2018/11/20

High Mobility publishes an article further describing their collaboration with the IOTA Foundation.

2018/11/06

The High Mobility CEO provides an insight on their work on integrating IOTA into their vehicle applicatoin platform on the IOTA Berlin meetup.

2018/10/31

High Mobility and the IOTA Foundation sign a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the integration of IOTA content, blueprints and tutorials into HIGH MOBILITY´s developer platform.

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Mobility

2019/08/15

HireGo announces to use IOTA MAM channels to publish vehicle data.

$n.a.

n.a.

Estonia

Other

2019/11/25

Pavel Shlapak, CEO and co-founder of the Paracosm Project, reiterates their plans to base Paracosm on the IOTA Tangle in an artile.

2019/11/07

Caer Sidi publishes a video further explaining its IOTA integration to store in-game digitakl and pohysical assets.

2019/11/06

Pavel Shlapak, CEO of PAracosm mentions in an interview that "Quite soon, users will feel significant advantages of IOTA’s technology".

2019/09/12

Caer Sidi Ltd. announces its partnership with the IOTA Foundation to "bring distributed ledger technology into the game industry".

2019/09/12

Caer Sidi announces that its credits can now be purchased through IOTA tokens.

2019/04/09

Paracosm partners with Ariwonto to jointly work on IOTA-based solutions.

2019/02/21

Paracosm publishes details on its plan to transition from Hyperledger to the final IOTA protocol in April/May 2019.

2019/02/14

PARACOSM publishes details on monetary incentives for IOTA node operators/IOTA Controlled Agents (Ict nodes).

2018/12/13

Paracosm publishes another video that showcases their IOTA-based games.

2018/12/09

Paracosm updates their business case PDF in which the setup of IOTA, JINN and their VR game engine is cited.

2018/11/30

Paracosm releases a promo video, including short snippets of gameplay.

2018/11/20

An interview also showing snippets of the tangle-based "Post Scriptum" gameplay is published.

2018/11/15

Paracosm publishes images of the tangle-based board game "Post Scriptum" on their Instagram channel.

2018/11/14

Sergey Ivancheglo's (IF) company 'Paracosm' (not affiliated with the IF) publishes their plans on using the IOTA as infrastructure for its virtual reality development environment and their first Poc, a game called 'Post Scriptum'.

$22.63 bn

53,890

Germany

Infrastructure

2020/03/03

Hochtief AG, Germany's largest construction company, is looking for a "Blockchain Developer" with practical experience in "Hyperledger, Ethereum, Corda, #OTA"

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2020/01/21

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hohai University, National institute of Telecommunications (INATEL) and University of Idaho published a paper titled "DAGIoV: A Framework for Vehicle to Vehicle Communication using Directed Acyclic Graph and Game Theory", referencing IOTA.

$88.58 bn

180,000

China

Electronics

2019/04/22

Researchers of the Huawei Research Center, Trinity College Dublin and IOTA Foundation publish a reaserch paper "Learning to Cache With No Regrets", introducing a novel caching analysis.

2018/05/15

Edward Greve represents IOTA in the Huawei Annual Strategy Technology Workshop panel discussion

2018/04/18

Dominik Schiener present IOTA at the Huawei Deutschland Channel Partner Conference

2018/01/07

IOTA is presented at the Huawei NB-IoT partner annual meeting (Opening speech by Peng Liyuan, first lady of the People's Republic of China)

2017/04/20

Huawei mentions progress in IoT especially through IOTA

$n.a.

~ 300

Argentine

Electronics

2019/03/01

Huenei IT Services hosts an IOTA Meetup at their argentinian headquarters.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/10/28

Members of the Humboldt University Berlin and University of Münster publish a paper titled "Personalized mental health: Artificial intelligence technologies for treatment response prediction in anxiety disorders", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

IT

2019/09/20

A patent filed by Hyperchain Tech Co. Ltd was published, describing Block chain cross-chain transaction method based on smart contract sequencing”, referencing IOTA (and others)

$n.a.

n.a.

Singapore

IT

2018/10/15

I am Pass publishes a short video demonstrating their IOTA based access control solution to a server rack.

2018/09/27

Nino Ulrich from Iampass showcases the proof-of-concept palm vein authentication based on the IOTA protocol, live at the "e-Shelter Partnerforum 2018" joined by Dominik Schiener (IF) and Dr. Rolf Werner (IF).

$n.a.

n.a.

Poland

Supply Chain

2019/01/08

The IBCS Group and the IOTA Foundation announce their partnership in using the Tangle technology for Track and Trace Supply Chain Solutions.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Policy

2019/07/16

The "2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain" in Atlanta, USA, held a session on "Properties of the Tangle for uniform random and random walk tip selection".

2019/05/17

Luigi Vigneri (IF), Wolfgang Welz (IF), Alon Gal (IF) and Vassil Dimitrov (IF) present "Achieving Fairness in the Tangle through an Adaptive Rate Control Algorithm" at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.

2019/05/15

Moody Alam (IF) participates in a panel discussion on "Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrencies: Opportunities & Challenges " at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.

2018/12/02

Jochen Renz (IF) is invited by the IEEE to present about "DLT in New Mobility" at the IEEE Fall Conference in Chicago

$79.14 bn

380,300

USA

IT

2019/12/05

A patent application filed by IBM is published, describing a “Task Scheduling System for Internet of Things (IoT) Devices“, including references to the IOTA token as means of payment.

2019/11/07

Umair Sarfraz's (IF) (et al) paper on "“Privacy Aware IOTA Ledger: Decentralized Mixing and Unlinkable IOTA Transactions" wa sreviewed by members of Intel Labs Germany and IBM Research Labs Zurich to be published in a "Special Issue on IoT Security and Privacy".

2019/10/28

Dell Technologies, the Linux Foundation and the IOTA Foundation team up for "Project Alvarium", the development of a codebase seeded by Dell Technologies, known as a "Data Confidence Fabric (DCF)" representing collaborative open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data. In its official press release, the Linux Foundation lists ARM, IBM, MobiledgeX, OSIsoft and Unisys as further project partners.

2019/05/16

Prof. R. Shorten (IF), et al, from the University College Dublin in collaboration with IBM Research release their research on "Spatial Positioning Token (SPToken) for Smart Mobility, a permissioned distributed ledger based on the IOTA Tangle".

2019/05/16

The IOTA Foundation, in collaboration with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Infosys, Oracle, Zita and the Stanford University developed two telecommunications infrastructure marketplaces (based on IOTA MAM) as a TMForum Catalyst project.

2019/05/15

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited to a panel discussion in the "AI and Data Strategy track" together with the Vice President of Watson AI of IBM and the Product Lead of Vodafone India at the TMForum, a non-profit, global industry association representing over 850 member companies comprised of communications service providers at its Digital Transformation World event.

2018/12/13

Prof. Robert Shorten (IF), (at al) of the University College Dublin publishes a paper about "IOTA-based Directed Acyclic Graphs without Orphans".

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which IBM is also a member.

2018/04/05

IOTA attends to a private meeting with Intelzone, IBM and Cisco

2017/11/09

Wilfried Pimenta discusses in a panel with Andy Stanford-Clark at the Pöyry/Eurelectric Energy4.0 meetup.

$963 m

6,23

Germany

IT

2019/07

IFM Electronic GmbH joind the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Infrastructure

2020/02/17

The Illinois Smart City & Region Association met with Anne Smith (IF) at the IOTA headquarters in Berlin.

$n.a.

n.a.

Ireland

Academia

2019/10/31

Members of the Imperial College Dublin, Imperial College London and Northeastern University publish a paper on "On the stability of unverified transactions in a DAG-based Distributed Ledger", proposing a simple modification to the attachment mechanism for the Tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2019/11/28

Navin Ramachandran (IF) is invited by the Imperial College London to talk about the future of eHealth.

2019/10/31

Members of the Imperial College Dublin, Imperial College London and Northeastern University publish a paper on "On the stability of unverified transactions in a DAG-based Distributed Ledger", proposing a simple modification to the attachment mechanism for the Tangle.

2019/02/25

Members of the Imperial College London publish a paper on "DAGsim: Simulation of DAG-based distributed ledger protocols", analyzing IOTA.

2017/07/20

The Imperial College London partners with the IOTA foundation for DLT innovations.

$n.a.

n.a.

Pakistan

Academia

2020/02/28

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad and Incheon National University published a paper titled "Post-quantum distributed ledger for internet of things", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

IT

2018

Server24 announces on Twitter that they retrofitted their wind turbine with a Scada system that they are planning to integrate with IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

NGO

2019/11/26

Richard Soley (IF), Chairman of the Object Management Group and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortiumshares insights on industrial needs and applications for DLT and the standardisation of the IOTA protocol, predicted to happen in mid-2020.

2019/10/07

The Industrial Internet Consortium announces the participants of its "IoT Smart Bulding Challenge", co-organized with the Trusted IoT Alliance, including IOTA.

2018/09/11

The Industrial Internet Consortium invites Jochen Renz (IF) and Alexander Renz (IF), also directors of the New Mobility Lab, to its Chicago meeting to present IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2019/10/30

A publication of members of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology and CSIRO, titled "A Comprehensive Survey on Attacks, Security Issues and Blockchain Solutions for IoT and IIoT" and referencing IOTA, has been accepted for publication in the "Journal of Network and Computer Applications".

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Other

2019/12/10

The IOTA Foundation collaborates with Felleskjøpet Agri, InFuture, Yara International, Eurofins TINE SA and Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet (NMBU) on a Smart Farming proof-of-concept.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Electronics

2020/02/11

The WZL of the RWTH Aachen University announced its participation in the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2020/01/01

Members of the RWTH Aachen University publish a paper titled "FactDAG: Formalizing Data Interoperability in an Internet of Production", referencing IOTA.

2019/12/10

Jelle Millenaar is invited to an IOTA Meetup organised by the Forschungszentrum Informatik, including presentations of Jörg Nagel from Neoception GmbH, Simone Giehl from Zühlke Engineering GmbH, Martin Unterberg of the RWTH Aachen, Raphael Manke of the Forschungszentrum Informatik and Niclas Kannengießer of the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT).

2019/10/24

Daniel Trauth and Felix Mönckemeyer from the Industrial IOTA Lab Aachen of the RWTH University Aachen explain their IOTA integration in an interview.

2019/10/23

Daniel Trauth of the RWTH Aachen University reports that the collaboration with Dell EMC on its Feintool IOTA-use case is progressing rapidly.

2019/09/05

The Industrial IOTA Lab Aachen of the WZL of the RWTH University Aachen welcomed visitors from Daimler and presented its IOTA-based internet-of-production prototype.

2019/09/03

Members of the RWTH Aachen and Fraunhofer FKIE published an academic paper on “Dataflow Challenges in an Internet of Production: A Security & Privacy Perspective” providing further details of their IOTA-based fineblanking PoC

2019/09/03

The WZL of the RWTH University Aachen hosts the annual meeting of the research circle around fineblanking, again introduciong IOTA and SPAICER..

2019/08/29

EinfachIOTA.de publishes a video from the ZeMA industrial mechatronics/automation industry event.

2019/08/29

EinfachIOTA.de publishes a detailed report of the ZeMA industrial mechatronics/automation industry event, including images and detailed descriptions of the presented IOTA-based proof-of-concepts from ZeMa, Cretec GmbH, and the RWTH Aachen.

2019/08/08

Representatives of Carl Zeiss AG visit the IOTA Lab Aachen, commented by the RWTH head with "looking forward to an upcoming cooperation" on Twitter.

2019/07/12

The team of XDK2MAM and DanielTrauth of the RWTH University/IILA met and discussed their vision and future collaboration.

2019/07

New sensors of the IILA are spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace.

2019/05/21

The RWTH hosts 37 fineblanking companies for discussion, including IOTA.

2019/05/11

An industry news portal reports that Ubirch GmbH developed a solution in collaboration with WZL/RWTH (IILA) and Deutsche Telekom Labs to save sensor data to the IOTA ledger.

2019/05/07

Daniel Trauth of the IILA tweets about representatives from Ford, visiting for a presentation of the IOTA use-case.

2019/04/17

The WZL of the RWTH Aachen University publishes an article detailing its plans for SPAICER, an AI-based resiliance management tool, including IOTA-based Digital Twins.

2019/03/01

The IILA publishes an article describing the "finite element method as a service", in which it way to establish a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication between an industrial fine-blanking press and a finite element (FE) server to generate a digital twin for each physically manufactured workpiece, based on IOTA.

2019/02/28

The IILA presents their work on IOTA at the third network meeting on AI in industrial environments.

2019/01/15

The IILA integrates a Philips Hue extension with their IOTA-based Industrial IoT proof of concept.

2019/01/14

Daniel Trauth from the IILA talks about their IOTA-based fineblanking proof-of-concept during the first annual general meeting of the new "Cluster of Excellence".

2019/01/13

The IILA publishes an article describing their integration of measuring tools with IOTA

2019/01/10

Daniel Trauth, Leader of the Industrial IOTA Lab Aachen and Department Head at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering of RWTH Aachen University talks about their integration of IOTA in the IOTA podcast.

2019/01/02

The IILA publishes a video interview, describing its goal to further develop the current result of the project into a big data marketplace and offer Pay-per-Use as well as subscription models to establish new data-driven business models.

2018/12/31

The IILA publishes its 5th status report on their collaboration with Grandcentrix on inclusion of IOTA micro-payments, secure audit trails and zero-marginal costs based on the IOTA tangle.

2018/12/16

The IILA writes measurement data of mechanical tools directly to the Tangle.

2018/12/15

The IILA publishes a video of their IOTA-enabled fineblanking production including payments made for MAM data streams.

2018/12/12

Daniel Trauth from the IILA presents their PoC at the "Microsoft Machine Builder Day" at Microsoft Munich.

2018/11/30

The IILA releases a press release regarding their memorandum of understanding with the NCKU DLT Lab of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, on collaborating in the field of Internet of Everything, Internet of Production and distributed ledger technology-driven Data Economy based on IOTA.

2018/11/22

Daniel Trauth from IILA presents "Showcases: IOTA in the Industry" at the IOTA Munich Community Meetup.

2018/10/20

The IILA celebrates their complete integration of a digital twin on the IOTA tangle of their fineblanking manufacturing process, developed in cooperation with Grandcentrix and publishes an extensive video explaining their integration and processes.

2018/10/13

The IILA publishes their "WZL x GCX x IOTA — Status Report 04", introducing a pay-per-use data marketplace and IOTA micropayments.

2018/09/27

RWTH Aachen won the "cluster of excellence", a Federal German initiative with their IOTA-based internet-of-production protoype and receive federal funding for 7 years (potentially additional 7 years afterwards).

2018/09/13

Daniel Trauth, Department Head of the IILA, presents the IILA PoC and their vision of the IOTA-based manufacturing economy to representatives from 3M, ABB, BASF, BMW Group, BOSCH, Evonik, LG, TUI, and several other companies (see link)

2018/09/07

The IILA publishes its third progress report about its IOTA-based manufacturing PoC, showcasing their frontend and announcing their plan of implementing micro-payments utilizing IOTA for each part produced.

2018/09/05

The IILA presented their vision of an IOTA-based manufacturing economy to their fineblanking working group, consisting of –60 participants from 33 companies.

2018/08/15

The IILA publishes a highly detailed article describing the advantages of DLTs, IOTA in particular, its use-cases in manufacturing, an outlook on the fineblanking PoC and an outlook on its further development

2018/08/15

The Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University (IILA) mentions the effects of their Amazon AWS implementation for PoW on the IOTA tangle throughput in a tweet, citing their "use case is getting closer"

2018/08/08

Daniel Trauth from the IILA presents their IOTA-based Internet-of-Production proof-of-concept to Dan Dougherty, Senior Vice President of Dell EMC

2018/08/06

The Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University (IILA) publishes their second status report on "WZL x GCX x IOTA".

2018/07/25

The Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University showcases their new web frontend for their production audit trail to a newspaper

2018/07/24

The Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University publishes a blog post detailing their setup, goals, current work and 30+ industrial partners

2018/06/30

The WZL of the RWTH University Aachen posts an image showing the 36 company members of their Blockchain working group "AKF", who are all closely following the progress of the RWTH IOTA proof-of-concept

2018/06/23

The WZL of the RWTH University Aachen publishes a blog post describing their PoC industrial fineblanking process that registers produced components on the IOTA tangle

2018/03/24

The WZL announces to build an IOTA based industrial use-case

2018/03/24

The IILA offers a spot for a master thesis, PhD or PostD on the Tangle and IOTA.

$53.32 bn

38,600

Germany

Ended

2019/10/29

A patent is awarded to Innogy Innovation GmbH, describing a “Peer-to-peer network and node of a peer-to-peer network”, referencing IOTA.

2019/09/26

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a "Raw Material and/or Recycling System”, referencing IOTA.

2019/09/25

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Method for operating a peer-to-peer application”, referencing IOTA.

2019/09/25

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Method for operating at least one additive manufacturing apparatus”, referencing IOTA.

2019/07/11

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Roaming method”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/20

A patent application filed by Innogy SE is published, describing “Peer-to-peer communication system and peer-to-peer processing apparatus”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/20

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation Gmbh is published, describing a “Method for operating a decentralized storage system”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/20

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Building automation system” is published, referencing IOTA.

2019/05/09

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing an “Observation system”, referencing IOTA.

2019/05/01

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing an “Augmented reality system”, referencing IOTA.

2019/04/24

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Software defined networking system”, referencing IOTA.

2019/04/04

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation Gmbh is published, describing a “System, in particular authenticity system”, referencing IOTA.

2019/03/28

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “System, especially authenticity system”, referencing IOTA.

2019/03/21

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Peer-to-peer network and node of a peer-to-peer network”, referencing IOTA.

2019/03/13

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “System for evaluating telemetry data”, referencing IOTA.

2019/03/13

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Traffic system”, referencing IOTA.

2019/02/07

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation Gmbh is published, describing a “System for exchanging energy”, referencing IOTA.

2019/02/06

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Production system controllable by means of a peer-to-peer application”, referencing IOTA.

2018/12/13

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing an “Supply medium (eg, electricity) transaction contract system”, referencing IOTA.

2018/10/10

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Charging system for vehicles”, referencing IOTA.

2018/10/10

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Supply medium (e.g. electrical power) transaction agreement system”, referencing IOTA.

2018/10/04

A patent application filed by Innogy SE is published, describing “Method of operating an electrical grid”, referencing IOTA.

2018/09/27

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Control System of an Entity”, referencing IOTA.

2018/09/27

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “Supply Medium Exchange System for Mobile Units”, referencing IOTA.

2018/09/07

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing an “Electric grid control system based on peer-to-peer network”, referencing IOTA.

2018/09/06

A patent application filed by Innogy Innovation GmbH is published, describing a “System and Method for Transporting an Object”, referencing IOTA.

2018/03/22

A patent application filed by Innogy SE is published, describing “System comprising an electrical producer arrangement”, referencing IOTA.

2017/12/25

Innogy Innovation Hub publishes an article describing first IOTA prototypes, including the CarPass project (Note: IOTA discontinued working with Innogy)

2017/12/17

Harm van den Brink (IF) reveils in a talk the joint development of a digital twin (Carpass) application together with BigchainDB, Volkswagen and Innogy (Note: IOTA discontinued working with Innogy)

2017/08/28

Innogy is referenced in an IOTA presentation at Volkswagen Financial Services (Note: IOTA discontinued working with Innogy)

2017/02/22

Dr. Carsten Stöcker (IF) announces that the Innogy Innovation Hub starts exploring solutions built on IOTA (Note: IOTA discontinued working with Innogy)

$n.a.

n.a.

Colombia

IT

2019/10/08

Information Technology Partners Inc publishes an implementation to send IoT Data to the IOTA Tangle with SAP HANA XSA and Analytics Cloud.

$11.8 bn

228,123

India

IT

2019/05/16

The IOTA Foundation, in collaboration with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Infosys, Oracle, Zita and the Stanford University developed two telecommunications infrastructure marketplaces (based on IOTA MAM) as a TMForum Catalyst project.

$8.10 bn

37,500

Germany

Electronics

2018/11/06

Sven Feuchtmüller from Accessec shares an update on the progress of the Accessec car wallet implementation and also provides a glimpse into their research of a physical chip (in collaboration with Infineon) to store IOTA seeds.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Energy

2018/04/19

InnoEnergy and ÖrebroBostäder AB partner up with IOTA on smart energy community development

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Energy

2018/01

Gridsense joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

2017/12/01

Gridsense releases a short statement on their website in regard to their participation in the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2019/08

A member of the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, established by the Reserve Bank of India, publishes a "staff paper" on "FinTechs and an Evolving Ecosystem", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Iran

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), AmirKabir University of Technology and Islamic Azad University publish a paper titled "The Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain: Implementation Perspectives", citing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Singapore

Academia

2018/12/18

Members of the Institute for Infocomm Research publish a paper on "Adding Confidential Transactions to Cryptocurrency IOTA with Bulletproofs".

$n.a.

n.a.

Pakistan

Academia

2018/05/24

Three researchers publish an article, analysing "Zenith Certifier: A Framework to Authenticate Academic Verifications Using Tangle"

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2018/12/05

Members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) publish a paper on "Impact of Security Aspects at the IOTA Protocol".

$n.a.

n.a.

Portugal

Academia

2019/05/19

Members of the University of Chongqing, Xidian University, University of Glasgow, Institute of Telecommunications Portugal and University of North China publish an extensive academic paper on "When Internet of Things Meets Blockchain: Challenges in Distributed Consensus", analyzing the IOTA tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

Brazil

Academia

2019/10/16

Members of the University of Vale, Instituto Federal Catarinense, University of Salamanca, University of Beira Interior and Universidade Lusófona published a paper titled “PRICHAIN: A Partially Decentralized Implementation of UbiPri Middleware Using Blockchain”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

Integrated Environmental Solutions Research and Development participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$70.8 bn

110,200

USA

IT

2020/01/02

A patent application filed by Intel Corp was published, describing a “Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) Service Contract Formation and Workload Execution”, (exclusively) referencing IOTA.

2020/01/02

A patent application filed by Intel Corp was published, describing a “Multi-Access Edge Computing Service for Mobile User Equipment Method and Apparatus”, (exclusively) referencing IOTA.

2019/12/12

A patent application filed by Intel Corp is published, describing “Management of preferred channel allocations between wireless communication bands”, (exclusively) referencing IOTA

2019/12/12

A patent application filed by Intel Corp was published, describing “Vehicle-to-Everything Session and Service Continuity in Automotive Edge Computing Systems”, (exclusively) referencing IOTA

2019/11/07

Umair Sarfraz's (IF) (et al) paper on "Privacy Aware IOTA Ledger: Decentralized Mixing and Unlinkable IOTA Transactions" was reviewed by members of Intel Labs Germany and IBM Research Labs Zurich to be published in a "Special Issue on IoT Security and Privacy".

2019/10/03

A patent application filed by Intel Corporation is published, describing “Multi-access management services packet recovery mechanisms”, referencing IOTA.

2019/07/18

A patent application filed by Intel Corporation is published, describing "Sensor network configuration mechanisms”, referencing IOTA.

2019/10/17

A patent application of Intel Corporation regarding "Various systems and methods for determining and communicating Link Performance Predictions (LPPs)" is published, detailing that "in some embodiments, the fog may be a tangle as defined by the IOTA foundation".

2019/06/06

A patent application filed by Intel Corporation is published, describing “Pseudo-random label assignments for packets in a transmission burst”, referencing IOTA.

2019/05/09

A patent application filed by Intel Corporation is published, describing “Device discovery using heartbeat signals“, referencing IOTA.

2019/04/11

A patent application filed by Intel Corporation is published, describing “Virtual electrical networks”, referencing IOTA.

2019/02/07

A patent application filed by Intel Corporation is published, describing “Trust management mechanisms”, referencing IOTA.

2016/06/01

The partners ElectriCChain, SolarCoin, Solcrypto, Bitseed, IOTA, and RWE, participate in the first Chain of Things Case Study Event at Intel Corporation focused on the secure logging of solar energy production data to a distributed blockchain ledger

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2020/01/13

An alpha-version of IntelliNetwork, a decentralized crime reporting system relying on the IOTA protocol has been released

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

IT

2018/04/05

IOTA attends to a private meeting with Intelzone, IBM and Cisco

$n.a.

n.a.

Europe

Policy

2019/04/08

The IOTA Foundation publishes a video with comments from Dominik Schiener (IF) and Julie Maupin, attending the digital signing of the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) from the European Commission headquarters.

2019/04/03

The International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA), publishes a press release about its official launch, announcing Julie Maupin (IF) as one of its ten (and only DLT-related) board members.

2019/02/28

The IOTA Foundation becomes a founding member of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

2019/02/03

Julie Maupin (IF) is participating in an event in preparation of the launch of the "International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA)".

$n.a.

n.a.

France

IT

2018/10/25

The International Astronautical Congress publishes a video of the session "The Nexus of Blockchain and Space", including Julie Maupin (IF).

2018/10/03

Julie Maupin (IF) represents IOTA as a panelist for "The Nexus of Blockchain and Space" in a joint initiative with the GIZ and Orbit Recycling at the 69th international astronautical congress in Bremen, Germany.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Communication

2019/08/01

The International Telecommunication Union publishes a technical report, mentioning IOTA.

2019/04/02

Lewis Freiberg (IF) is invited by the DLT Working Group of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to present the IOTA Foundation's "Trade Facilitation & Customs Management".

2019/04/02

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) mentions IOTA in a documemt titled "ITU Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Electronics

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Mobility

2018/07/12

Joachim Taiber (IF) hosts a smart mobility testbed alliance sync-meetup, discussing the future of transportation

2018/01/05

The International Transportation Innovation Center announces its partnership with the IOTA foundation to build smart mobility testbeds

2017/11/02

NetObjex presents its electrical vehicle charging solution based on IOTA at ITIC workshop events.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/12/11

Regine Haschka-Helmer (IF), Antonio Nardella (IF), Julie Maupin (IF), Dominik Schiener (IF), Serguei Popov (IF), Hans Moog (IF), Charley Varley (IF) and Andrew Brough (IF) are speaking at the IOTA Meetup: Defining Moments 2019 in Berlin, with IOT1 attending.

2019/05/21

IOT1 tweets from a meeting "Executive Management Forum for Digitalization in the Pharmaceutical Industry", invited by Zuehlke to speak about DLT and IOTA.

2019/05/17

Dominik Schiener (IF) attends an event in Berlin with 40 C-level executives, hosted by IOT1.

2019/04/25

IOT1 launches its new IOTA Onboarding Course for Developers exclusively in cooperation with the IOTA Foundation.

$n.a.

n.a.

France

IT

2017/06/08

IOTA visits IRT SystemX to discuss collaboration in the space of DLT for cybersecurity and IoT application

$n.a.

n.a.

Iran

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), AmirKabir University of Technology and Islamic Azad University publish a paper titled "The Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain: Implementation Perspectives", citing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

Isocarp participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2019/07/20

Members of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim kommune and ITARK consulting publish a paper on "A Smart City Ecosystem enabling Open Innovation", outlining the challenges in designing an architecture for a flexible, open, transferable, and replicable smart city ecosystem, spanning a plethora of suppliers and systems, around the smart city and energy project +CityxChange, referencing IOTA .

2019/06/01

Members of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Kommune and ITARK Consulting publish a paper on "A Smart City Ecosystem Enabling Open Innovation", detailing how IOTA can be used as a solution.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academic

2020/02/28

Members of the Jagan Institute of Management Studies contributed a chapter titled "Overview of Blockchain Technology Concepts" to the "Handbook of Research on Blockchain Technology", referencing IOTA.

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$42.72 bn

n.a.

Great Britain

Mobility

2019/11/19

Russell Vickers and Aaron Hetherington from Jaguar Land Rover’s Software Engineering Centre provide some insights about their IOTA-based Smart Car Wallet and their further plans.

2019/09/30

Autoexpress reports that Jaguar Land Rover integrated a trial for a usage-based insurance system in a Jaguar I-Pace.

2019/09/12

The IOTA Foundation releases a video about "Cities of the future", showing the collaboration in energy traceability of Jaguar Land Rover, Engie Lab Crigen & Entra.

2019/09/01

A leaflet of the partners IOTA, Jaguar Land Rover, Engie Lab Crigen and Entra, describing the Trondheim Powerhouse proof-of-concept is published.

2019/08/31

A video of the presentation of the IOTA Foundation and Jaguar Land Rover from the +CityxChange event at the NTNUin Trondheim is published.

2019/08/28

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) joins Jaguar Land Rover and Positive CityXChange at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in a presentation on "the potential of DLT / Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Smart cities at the crossroads of energy, mobility, real estate and urban planning".

2019/05/16

Nick Rogers, Executive Director at Jaguar Land Rover presents at the BOSCH Connected World 2019 on the future of mobility, that includes the IOTA token (see image).

2019/04/29

Jaguar Land Rover officially partners with the IOTA Foundation, integrating IOTA wallets in their vehicles in order to compensate drivers for submitted environmental data like congestion or road conditions.

$18.72 m

n.a.

Germany

IT

2018/07/09

Jambit GmbH participates in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2020/02/28

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology contributed a chapter titled "Scalability in Blockchain: Challenges and Solutions" to the "Handbook of Research on Blockchain Technology", referencing IOTA.

2020/01/21

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hohai University, National institute of Telecommunications (INATEL) and University of Idaho published a paper titled "DAGIoV: A Framework for Vehicle to Vehicle Communication using Directed Acyclic Graph and Game Theory", referencing IOTA.

2020/01/16

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal and Tomsk Polytechnic University published a paper titled "A Blockchain-based Framework for Lightweight Data Sharing and Energy Trading in V2G Network", based on IOTA.

$109.02 bn

257,444

USA

Finance

2020/01/02

A patent application filed by NCR Corp (National Cash Register) was published, describing “Cryptocurrency Payment and Refund Processing on a Transaction Terminal”, referencing IOTA (and others).

2019/08/01

A patent application filed by the National Cash Register Corporation, describing “Cryptocurrency terminal and transaction processing“ is published, referencing IOTA and assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/08/28

Members of the Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University Madrid and the Supercomputing Center Jülich published a paper titled “The Use of the Internet of Things for Estimating Personal Pollution Exposure”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2020/01/20

Members of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) published a paper titled “On the Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Ledger Technology: A Scoping Review and Future Research Agenda (Working Paper)”, referencing IOTA.

2020/01/07

Members of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) published a paper titled "Do Not Be Fooled: Toward a Holistic Comparison of Distributed Ledger Technology Designs", referencing IOTA.

2019/12/10

Jelle Millenaar is invited to an IOTA Meetup organised by the Forschungszentrum Informatik, including presentations of Jörg Nagel from Neoception GmbH, Simone Giehl from Zühlke Engineering GmbH, Martin Unterberg of the RWTH Aachen, Raphael Manke of the Forschungszentrum Informatik and Niclas Kannengießer of the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT).

2019/10/25

Holger Koether (IF) is invited by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to speak about "IOTA, a fee-free and highly scalable transaction ntwork for the Internet of Things".

2019/09/12

Members of the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, publish a paper on "An Open Multimodal Mobility Platform Based on Distributed Ledger Technology", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Abu Dhabi

Academia

2020/01/27

Members of the Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi) and the University of Campania published a paper titled "Blockchain-Based Distributed Trust and Reputation Management Systems: A Survey", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Ukraine

Academia

2019/02/28

Members of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute publish a paper on "Cryptographic Hardware Acceleration Proof-of-Work for IOTA".

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

Kjeldsberg Eiendomsforvaltning AS participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Saudi Arabia

Academia

2020/01/13

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad, King Abdulaziz University and King Saud University published a paper titled “Novel One Time Signatures (NOTS): A Compact Post-quantum Digital Signature Scheme”, referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Saudi Arabia

Academia

2020/01/13

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad, King Abdulaziz University and King Saud University published a paper titled “Novel One Time Signatures (NOTS): A Compact Post-quantum Digital Signature Scheme”, referencing IOTA

2020/01/09

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad, King Saud University and University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar published a paper titled "Data Sharing System Integrating Access Control Mechanism using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts for IoT Devices", referencing IOTA.

$11.12 bn

35,488

Netherlands

Mobility

2018/11/06

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines invites teams to develop solutions for their "biometric safety challenge" based on IOTA (Ocean or Sovrin) at the Odyssey hackathon.

2018/11/06

A KLM executive is quoted on an IATA meeting "I like what IOTA is doing: read their white paper"

$9.1 bn

43,300

Japan

Electronics

2019/05/21

Michele Nati (IF) presents IOTA at the Konica Minolta Labs in Rome, Italy.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Electronics

2018/05/17

Kontakt.io announces its partnership with IOTA and uses the tangle to store its sensor data

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

Energy

2018/02/26

Kontrol Energy announces having acquired a blockchain software firm to enter the IOTA cryptocurrency sector (later retracted, see link)

2018/02/02

Kontrol Energy appoints Samuel Reid (IOTA architect) to its blockchain advisory board

$26.42 bn

89,000

Germany

Consulting

2019/08/17

Members of Procedo GmbH, Offis e.V. and KPMG Switzerland publish a paper on "Public Blockchains as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology for Open Data Transmission in Smart Cities", referencing IOTA as one of four potential protocols remaining of 200 analysed blockchains.

2018/12/19

KPMG releases a video of the talk with Dominik Schiener (IF) from their next "Next Philantrophy Event".

2018/12/11

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited to a talk in their "Next Philantrophy" series by KPMG.

2018/04/26

KPMG asserts IOTA to be the most innovate blockchain solution in a publication

2017/05/31

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited to present IOTA at the KPMG Fintech Innovation Showcase

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Academia

2019/06/06

Members of the Polytechnic University Madrid,Copenhagen Business School and Kristiania University College publish a paper "Accelerating Health Data Sharing: A Solution Based on the Internet of Things and Distributed Ledger Technologies", proposing a solution based on IOTA MAM..

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

IT

2019/07

A sensor from Kryha is spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Ukraine

Academia

2019/08/01

Members of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute published a paper titled "Hardware Accelerators for IOTA Cryptocurrency", based on the IOTA protocol.

$n.a.

n.a.

France

IT

2016/11/29

La Chaintech, a french blockchain association, tweets about the advantages of IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2019/07

Lab1886, the corporate incubator of Daimler AG is spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace.

$n.a.

n.a.

Korea

Academia

2019/12/18

Members of the Kyung Hee University published a paper titled "Industrial Internet of Things: A Provenance-based Solution for Monitoring Food Products", based on IOTA MAM.

2019/07/21

Members of the Kyung Hee University, Korea, published a paper “A Provenance-based Solution for Tracking Sensor Data in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain”, using IOTA (MAM) to to share data transparently among all participating entities

2019/04/02

Members of the Kyung Hee University and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology publish a joint paper on "Orchestrating Product Provenance Story: When IOTA ECOSYSTEM Meets The Electronics Supply Chain Space".

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2020/02/13

Members of the Swinburne University of Technology, La Trobe University and CSIRO Data61 published a paper titled "Towards a Trusted Marketplace for Wearable Data", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

IT

2017/11/03

LASS stores PM2.5 sensor readings in the IOTA tangle in Taiwan

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2017/11/28

Lattice80, the worlds largest fintech hub, announces its partnership with the IOTA foundation

$n.a.

n.a.

France

IT

2019/05/27

Ledger reports that it will equip Veolia's water sensors (throug its subsidiary Birdz) with Ledger’s specialized microchip (a certified EAL5+ Secure Element) to sign and encrypt all collected data before it is sent to the IOTA tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

Japan

Finance

2019/11/01

Members of the japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Leland Capital, Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune and the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan publish a paper on "Blockchain Business and its Regulation", citing IOTA among Bitcoin and Ethereum as the only "risk-free projects".

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/07/25

A member of the Lehigh University, USA, publishes a paper on "Concensus in Enterprise and Financial Blockchains: Assumptions and Challenges", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Sweden

Academia

2018/08/27

A student from Linnæus University publishes their bachelor thesis about "Distributed Data Management in Internet of Things Networking Environments: IOTA Tangle and Bitcoin Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technologies"

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/10/28

Dell Technologies, the Linux Foundation and the IOTA Foundation team up for "Project Alvarium", the development of a codebase seeded by Dell Technologies, known as a "Data Confidence Fabric (DCF)" representing collaborative open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data.

2019/09/23

The IOTA Foundation is named an officially listed Linux Foundation corporate member and also becomes a member of LF Edge.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

IT

2018/04/13

Localflow publishes an article "Decentralized Local Data Flow", explaining their plans to change "local information, local social life and local economy", built upon the IOTA Tangle.

2017/08
Localflow publishes its whitepaper, naming IOTA as an accepted payment option (next to fiat).

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2018/02/15

A patent application filed by Luryto LLC is published, describing “Systems and method for unmanned aerial painting applications”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/03/24

Michele Nati (IF) represents the IOTA Foundation at the DLT and Internet of Things event, sponsored by Lutron Electronics in collaboration with the IOTA London meetup.

$n.a.

n.a.

Luxemburg

Academia

2019/08/26

A member of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology publishes a paper titled "Towards Blockchain-enabled Searchable Encryption", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

9,000

Romania

IT

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which Luxoft is also a member.

2017/07/14

Luxoft participates in work on supercomputing models for IOTA

2017/05/03

Luxoft has been selected by the Blockchain Training Alliance as a partner because of its established partnerships with blockchain ecosystems such as Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Sawtooth, Corda, Ripple, Chain, Iota and Sovrin.

2017/01/27

The CTO of Luxoft pitches IOTA to "Hack the Valley"-participants

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Academia

2018/01

The Madrid Internet of Things Institute integrates IOTA into their curriculum.

$n.a.

n.a.

Austria

Academia

2018/10/16

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited to speak at the opening event for the MBA course "Digital Business" of the MCI Management Center Innsbruck

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2019/06/03

Members of the Manchester Metropolitan University publish a paper "Demonstrating Blockchain-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and Sharing", citing IOTA as potential infrastructure.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2019/07/11

Members of the University of Toulouse and the Macquarie University publish a paper on "When Air Traffic Management Meets Blockchain Technology: a Blockchain-based concept for securing the sharing of Flight Data", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2018/09/07

Jonas Weisensel from Maritime Data Systems GmbH presents an IOTA based proof-of-concept at SeaDevCon.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2018/09/07

Jonas Weisensel from Maritime Data Systems GmbH presents an IOTA based proof-of-concept at SeaDevCon.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2019/11/14

Maschinenraum GmbH, an entity founded by the venture capital arm of the Viessmann Group, hosts an event titled "From Construction to Smart City", showcasing "Open Innovation Story #1: IOTA an the City of Trondheim, Norway" and inviting Holger Koether (IF) and Regine Haschka-Helmer (IF) to a panel discussion.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/03/31

Members of the University of Boston, the MIT Media Lab and Harvard University publish a paper on "Cryptanalysis of Curl-P and Other Attacks on the IOTA Cryptocurrency".

2018/11/15

A patent application filed by the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology is published, describing “Systems and methods for crowdsourcing, analyzing, and/or matching personal data”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2017/12/01

Julie Maupin (IF) of the Max Planck Institute and members of the Asian Development Bank publish a paper on "Distributed Ledger Technologies for Developing Asia".

$14.84 bn

56,000

Germany

Other

2020/02/04

A patent application filed by Merck Patent Gmbh was published, describing “Methods and Systems for Preparing and Performing an Object Authentication“, referencing IOTA.

2019/11/07

A patent application filed by Merck Patent Gmbh is published, describing “Methods and systems for automatic object recognition and authentication“, referencing IOTA.

2019/11/06

A patent application filed by Merck Patent Gmbh is published, describing “Composite security marking and methods and apparatuses for providing and reading same“, referencing IOTA.

2019/09/04

A patent application filed by Merck Patent GmbH is published, describing "Methods and systems for token-based anchoring of a physical object in a distributed ledger environment”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2020/01/21

Metallicus Inc (MetalPay) integrated IOTA tokens on their platform

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Finance

2019/11/21

A patent application filed by MFE Capital LLC is published, describing a “Systems and methods for cold payment solution“, referencing IOTA.

2019/11/21

A patent application filed by MFE Capital LLC is published, describing “Method and device for off-line generation of key pairs for storage and usage of digital assets”, REFERENCING IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Automotive

2019/09/01

Riddle&Code; and MHP, a subsidiary of Porsche, publish a joint paper titled "The Automotive Sector and Blöockchain", multiple times referencing IOTA and proof-of-concepts, e.g. by JaguarLandrover.

$90.01 bn

124,000

USA

Ended

2018/11/21

Microsoft supports the Data Unchained Datathon of the Axiata Group Berhad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, including 300 participants, sponsored by the IOTA Foundation and supported by Lewis Freiberg (IF), Microsoft, Google, Ericsson and further companies.

2017/12/12

Daniel Trauth from the IILA presents their PoC at the "Microsoft Machine Builder Day" at Microsoft Munich.

2017/12/14

Microsoft France hosts an IOTA Meetup

2017/11/28

Microsoft announces its cooperation with the IOTA foundation based on its data marketplace (Note: IOTA and Microsoft discontinued collaborating)

2016/11/02

Dominik Schiener presents IOTA at a Microsoft Germany Blockchain Event (Note: IOTA and Microsoft discontinued collaborating)

2016/02/29

Microsoft offers IOTA integration in Azure as Blockchain-as-a-Service (Note: IOTA and Microsoft discontinued collaborating)

$n.a.

n.a.

Oman

Academia

2019/05/02

Members of the Middle East College publish a paper “Role of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to Enhance Resiliency in Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem”, referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Turkey

Academia

2019/05/31

Members of the Middle East Technical University publish a paper on "Blockchain for Ensuring Security, Privacy, and Trust in IoT Environments: The State of the Art", basing their research on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

IT

2019/04/10

Sopra Steria hosts a meeting with its partners Entra, DNV GL Veracity, Mimiro-InFuture, NEXT Biometrics, Den Norske Bank, IOTA Foundation and other key Norwegian stakeholders "explore new pathways to value creation in the Internet-of-Things and the new digital economy".

$n.a.

n.a.

Mexico

Governmental

2019/06/19

The German-Mexican Energy Partnership, comprised of the german Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) and the Ministry of Energy of Mexico (SENER) in collaboration with the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) publish a paper "Blockchain meets Energy" on "Digital Solutions for a Decentralized and Decarbonized Sector", naming IOTA as a new approach circumventing known problems of DLTs.

2019/02/20

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy offers a grant for "Block­chain-based metering and management of energy distribution systems: Feasibility study and pilot concept", mentioning IOTA as possible architecture.

$n.a.

n.a.

Israel

IT

2018/12/22

Mobaxe attends a workshop of the Peace Innovation Foundation on "securing DLT-based ID-system for humanitarian workers" with their partners from AccesSec, IOTA, BiiLabs, B4P Solutions and Motorola.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Communication

2019/10/28

Dell Technologies, the Linux Foundation and the IOTA Foundation team up for "Project Alvarium", the development of a codebase seeded by Dell Technologies, known as a "Data Confidence Fabric (DCF)" representing collaborative open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data. In its official press release, the Linux Foundation lists ARM, IBM, MobiledgeX, OSIsoft and Unisys as further project partners.

$n.a.

n.a.

Worldwide

Mobility

2020/02/18

Anne Smith (IF) is invited to MoCo, an event initiated by the Mobility Open Blockchain initiative, to speak on "connected infrastructure and how we approach the future of movement in our cities".

2019/10/03

IOTA is a sponsor of the MOBI Grand Challenge Phase II of the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative.

2018/05/03

IOTA joins the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), founded by BOSCH, Groupe Renault, BMW, Ford, General Motors, ZF (and others)

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Supply chain

2017/08/21

Modum.io announces to build supply chain solutions based on IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2020/01/17

Members of the Monash Business School published a paper titled "Money Without Institutions, How Can Cryptocurrencies be Trusted?", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2018/11/01

A member of the Montana State University publishes his master thesis “Mitigating software engineering costs in distributed ledger technologies”, analyzing 20 cryptocurrencies, IOTA being one of them

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2019/12/18

The IOTA Foundation cooperates with Moon Pay Ltd by integrating it directly into its Trinity wallet.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which Motionwerk is also a member.

2017/12/17

Dominik Schiener (IF) reveals in a presentation the joint development of a PoC EV charging network in collaboration with MotionWerk for the Oslo2Rome challenge

2017/08/28

Motionwerk (Oslo2Rome) is referenced in an IOTA presentation at Volkswagen Financial Services

$25.21 bn

53,000

USA

Communication

2018/12/22

Motorola attends a workshop of the Peace Innovation Foundation on "securing DLT-based ID-system for humanitarian workers" with their partners from AccesSec, IOTA, BiiLabs, B4P Solutions and Mobaxe.

$33 m

n.a.

USA

IT

2017/2018

Movimento joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$229 m

1,500

USA

Consulting

2017/2018

Multiconsult joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/10/24

The MXC Foundation is looking for a Senior Go / Rust Engineer having an "in-depth understanding of major blockchains like Ethereum, IOTA, Stellar".

$n.a.

17,336

USA

Other

2018/11/14

Samuel Reid (IF) presents on "SATCOM relays implementing the post-quantum-secure IOTA protocol for IoT-sensor networks".

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$6.41 bn

34,000

USA

Finance

2019/08/01

A patent application filed by the National Cash Register Corporation, describing “Cryptocurrency terminal and transaction processing“ is published, referencing IOTA and assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank.

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

Academia

2019/12/06

Yu-Wei Wu (IF) and Partnership Manager Soichiro Watanabe from BiiLabs hold talks about "Blockchain trustless revolution: From the sociology & computer science view" at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

Academia

2019/12/23

Members of the National Taiwan University and National Cheng Kung University, as well as BiiLabs published a paper titled "Decentralized Data Marketplace to Enable Trusted Machine Economy", based on IOTA.

2019/06/12

BiiLabs reports that The W3C Credentials Community Group approved the registry of IOTA-based TangleID as Decentralized Identifier (DID) Method implementer, jointly developed with the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).

2018/12/13

Members of the National Cheng Kung University publish a paper on "A Tangle-Based High Performance Architecture for Large Scale IoT Solutions".

2018/12/09

Jim Huang from BiiLabs tweets about their "research prototype that has been adopted by the NCKU as career verification platform, using verified credentials with IOTA".

2018/11/30

The IILA releases a press release regarding their memorandum of understanding with the NCKU DLT Lab of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, on collaborating in the field of Internet of Everything, Internet of Production and distributed ledger technology-driven Data Economy based on IOTA.

2017/11/15

The NCKU and LASS release a joint project, mapping PM2.5 particles around Taiwan and storing sensor-data in the IOTA tangle.

2017/08/23

The NCKU and SinoPac release a joint video, announcing a notary platform called i-Certificate.

$n.a.

n.a.

Japan

Academia

2019/05/31

Members of the East China Normal University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and University of Hyogo publish a paper on "Preimage Attacks on Reduced Troika with Divide-and-Conquer Methods".

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2020/01/15

A member of the National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India, published a paper titled “A Novel Approach on Advancement of Blockchain Security Solution”, referencing IOTA (and others)

$n.a.

n.a.

Brazil

Academia

2020/01/21

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hohai University, National institute of Telecommunications (INATEL) and University of Idaho published a paper titled "DAGIoV: A Framework for Vehicle to Vehicle Communication using Directed Acyclic Graph and Game Theory", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Energy

2018/10/11

Members of the University of Grenoble and the National Institute for Solar Energy, CEA-INES publish a paper "On the applicability of distributed ledger architectures to peer-to-peer energy trading framework" in which they compare different "blockchain" architectures, including the IOTA Tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

Russia

Academia

2019/09/12

Members of the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, publish a paper on "An Open Multimodal Mobility Platform Based on Distributed Ledger Technology", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

Academia

2019/12/31

Members of the National Taiwan University published a paper titled “Traceability for Vehicular Network Real-Time Messaging Based on Blockchain Technology”, based on IOTA

2019/12/23

Members of the National Taiwan University and National Cheng Kung University, as well as BiiLabs published a paper titled "Decentralized Data Marketplace to Enable Trusted Machine Economy", based on IOTA.

2019/09/01

Members of the National Taiwan University publish a paper titled "Design and implementation of distributed traceability system for smart factories based on blockchain technology", based on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Worldwide

IT

2018/05/31

The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence posts an image of John Licciardello (IF) presenting IOTA at CyCon2018

$n.a.

n.a.

Bulgaria

IT

2018/10/25

Navigato competes in the Central European Startup Awards finals in Poland

2017/10/19

Jochen Rentz (IF) and Dominik Schiener (IF) visit Navigato

$26.9 bn

109,390

Japan

Electronics

2019/08/23

Members of NEC Europe publish a paper titled "Towards Secure and Decentralized Sharing of IoT Data", referencing IOTA.

$1.99 bn

1,683

Netherlands

Energy

2017/2018

Gasunie joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/12/10

Jelle Millenaar is invited to an IOTA Meetup organised by the Forschungszentrum Informatik, including presentations of Jörg Nagel from Neoception GmbH, Simone Giehl from Zühlke Engineering GmbH, Martin Unterberg of the RWTH Aachen, Raphael Manke of the Forschungszentrum Informatik and Niclas Kannengießer of the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT).

2019/12/09

Neoception invites to its presentation at the IOTA Meetup Karlsruhe.

2019/12/10

Jörg Nagel from Neoception presents a "first application of Digital Identities" at the IOTA meetup in Karlsruhe.

2019/09/24

Neoception tweets about the newly launched IOTA industry marketplace.

2019/09/19

Together with its partners Neoception, eCl@ss, University of Magdeburg, Helmuth Schmidt University and WeWash, IOTA launches the "Industrial Data Marketplace" to "enable increased Interconnectivity between Humans, Machines, and Machine Readable Contracts".

2019/04/08

The IOTA Foundation publishes a video of the IOTA-based eCl@ass demonstrator from the Hannover Trade Fair 2019, developed by Neoception and Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH.

2019/04/01

eCl@ss exhibits a set of precise sensors in a demonstrator at the Hannover Trade Fair 2019, further developed by the IOTA Foundation, Neoception and Pepperl+Fuchs. One of the sensors is e.g. measuring the distance to an object and categorizes the retrieved data through a specific, unique, standardized ID. Any measured distance is being immutably recorded as a data point on the Tangle. From that point, it is easily audible and can be purchased through a micro transaction.

2019/04/01

eCl@ss exhibits a set of precise sensors in a demonstrator at the Hannover Trade Fair 2019, further developed by the IOTA Foundation and Neoception. One of the sensors is e.g. measuring the distance to an object and categorizes the retrieved data through a specific, unique, standardized ID. Any measured distance is being immutably recorded as a data point on the Tangle. From that point, it is easily audible and can be purchased through a micro transaction.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2020/02/28

Members of the Netaji Subhas University of Technology contributed a chapter titled "Cryptocurrency Mechanisms for Blockchains: Models, Characteristics, Challenges, and Applications" to the "Handbook of Research on Blockchain Technology", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

Mobility

2018/05/15

NetObjex introduces new DLT capabilities in its digital twin platform

2017/12/07

NetObjex unveils its parking solution based on IOTA

2017/11/02

NetObjex presents its electrical vehicle charging solution based on IOTA at ITIC workshop events.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2018/11/01

Members of the Newcastle University and Umm al-Qura University publish a paper titled "Toward a Decentralized, Trust-less Marketplace for Brokered IoT Data Trading using Blockchain", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Mobility

2020/02/05

New Mobility Lab reports that members of the Apple Enterprise Team visited the Chicago Connectory where they have been presented with the "Performance-based service agreement, an IOTA-based solution for an Industrial IoT problem".

2018/11/09

The New Mobility Lab tweets about their progress towards realization of a standardized system for autonomous vehicles with IOTA and the Illinois Autonomous Vehicle Association.

2018/11/07

New Mobility Lab tweets about their opportunity to present IOTA to North American suppliers of BOSCH at the Chicago Connectory on November 12th.

2018/11/02

Jochen Renz (IF) has been invited to the "Chicago New Transportation and Mobility Advisory Group" which is working with the City of Chicago New Transportation and Mobility Task Force.

2017/06/09

New Mobility Lab Inc. tweets a poster with IOTA use cases

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academic

2020/02/25

Members of the New York Institute of Technology, Nanjing, published a paper titled "Using Blockchain in IoT: Is It a Smooth Road Ahead for Real?", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

New Zealand

Policy

2018/11/01

The New Zealand Law Foundation publishes their cryptocurrency recommendation report, recognising that "blockchain now looks relatively dated compared to new DLTs such as IOTA and Hashgraph" and that "not all blockchains require payment or rewards to be made: for example, IOTA has an elegant solution" as well as "IOTA is claimed to be resistant to quantum computers. Transactions on IOTA are free."

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2018/09/27

Dominik Schiener (IF) discusses blockchain infrastructures in data centers during the e-Shelter event and poses with Harald Zapp, former CEO of Relayr (which is also part of the BOSCH XDK Ecosystem), and current CEO of Next Big Thing AG

2017/05/03
Next Big Thing AG invites Dominik Schiener (IF) to introduce IOTA.

$~12 m

n.a.

Norway

IT

2019/04/10

Sopra Steria hosts a meeting with its partners Entra, DNV GL Veracity, Mimiro-InFuture, NEXT Biometrics, Den Norske Bank, IOTA Foundation and other key Norwegian stakeholders "explore new pathways to value creation in the Internet-of-Things and the new digital economy".

2018/12/13

NEXT Biometrics announces its partnership with the IOTA Foundation, joining forces to accelerate IoT identity management solutions.

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

Energy

2019/06/01

ITHome reports that the cooperation to develop an IOTA-based energy marketplace between BiiLabs and NextDrive reached the PoC stage.

2018/10/11

Jerry (Yan Zhe Yuan), CEO of NextDrive provides further insights during an interview into the IOTA-based energy market place, NextDrive is building together with BiiLabs.

2018/07/08

Within the announcement of the participation of BiiLabs participation in the COSCUP OPEN SOURCE PEOPLE'S CONFERENCE BiiLabs is mentioned as working on NextDrive's green energy trading platform based on the IOTA tangle

2018/07/03

NextDrive announces its partnership with Biilabs to create Asias first intstant green energy trading platform based on the IOTA tangle

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2018/07/06

NHP Eiendom AS participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$25.22 bn

102,761

Finland

Communication

2019/05/16

The IOTA Foundation, in collaboration with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Infosys, Oracle, Zita and the Stanford University developed two telecommunications infrastructure marketplaces (based on IOTA MAM) as a TMForum Catalyst project.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Finance

2018/01

Nordic Impact joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$236 m

532

Norway

Electronics

2018/08/29

Nordic Semiconductor tweets about selling data on the IOTAs data marketplace, including NordicThingy and BluetoothSig

2018/06/01

Nordic Semiconductor and NTNU collaborate on IOTA developments and the Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/02/13

A member of the Northeastern University publishes a paper on "The fluid limit of a random graph model for a shared ledger", analyzing the limits of the IOTA Tangle.

2018/10/18

Prof. Robert Shorten (IF) of the University College Dublin (et al) and a member of the Northeastern University publishes a paper on "Distributed Ledger Technology for Smart Cities, the Sharing Economy, and Social Compliance".

2018/07/02

Researchers from University College Dublin and Northeastern University (Boston) publish their findings on Distributed Ledger Technology, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Social Compliance based on IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/02/19

Members of the North China Electric Power University, Fayetteville State University, Temple University and Qatar University publish a paper on "When Energy Trading Meets Blockchain in Electrical Power System: The State of the Art", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/19

Members of the University of Chongqing, Xidian University, University of Glasgow, Institute of Telecommunications Portugal and University of North China publish an extensive academic paper on "When Internet of Things Meets Blockchain: Challenges in Distributed Consensus", analyzing the IOTA tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2020/02/13

Members of the Northern Arizona University and University of Sheffield published a paper titled "Almost-Zero Logic Implementation of Troika Hash Function on Reconfigurable Devices", referencing IOTA.

2019/10/25

Members of the Northern Arizona University publish a paper titled "Optimizing the Age of Information for Blockchain Technology with Applications to IoT Sensors", based on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Healthcare

2017/06/19

Norway Health Tech (formerly Oslo MedTech) is part of a new research and innovation network, formed by the IOTA Foundation, Oslo Cancer Cluster, NTNU Center for Cyber and Information Security, The Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research and Alpha Venturi.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Policy

2017/10/26
Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited by the Norwegian-African Business Association to a talk about "New technologies changing the landscape? How will blockchain change how we are doing business in Africa?".

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Other

2019/12/05

Members of the Norsk Regnesentral, the Norwegian Computing Center, published a paper titled „Building Blocks of Negotiating Agents for Healthcare Data“, evaluating DLT‘s „as a basis for negotiations between distributed agents that carry health-related data“, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Healthcare

2017/06/19

The Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research is part of a new research and innovation network, formed by the IOTA Foundation, Norway Health Tech (formerly Oslo MedTech), Oslo Cancer Cluster, NTNU Center for Cyber and Information Security, The Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research and Alpha Venturi.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Academia

2019/08/31

A video of the presentation of the IOTA Foundation and Jaguar Land Rover from the +CityxChange event at the NTNUin Trondheim is published.

2019/08/28

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) joins Jaguar Land Rover and Positive CityXChange at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in a presentation on "the potential of DLT / Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Smart cities at the crossroads of energy, mobility, real estate and urban planning".

2019/07/20

Members of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim kommune and ITARK consulting publish a paper on "A Smart City Ecosystem enabling Open Innovation", outlining the challenges in designing an architecture for a flexible, open, transferable, and replicable smart city ecosystem, spanning a plethora of suppliers and systems, around the smart city and energy project +CityxChange, referencing IOTA .

2019/06/01

Members of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Kommune and ITARK Consulting publish a paper on "A Smart City Ecosystem Enabling Open Innovation", detailing how IOTA can be used as a solution.

2019/02/13

+CityxChange tweets about the recent workshop with Entra ASA, Powel AS, TrønderEnergi, the NTNU and FourC AS around the Brattørkaia energy surplus building, trading energy over IOTA.

2019/02/13

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies publishes an article outlining the setup of the surplus energy building in Brattørkaia, Trondheim, and the meeting of leaders from Engie Lab Crigen, Entra, IOTA Foundation, NTNU, POWEL, Trianel, Trondheim municipality and TrønderEnergi to explore new energy solutions and business models around IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.

2018/07/06

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

2018/06/01

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) publishes a short video, introducing projects built on the IOTA tangle

2017/06/19

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is part of a new research and innovation network, formed by the IOTA Foundation, Norway Health Tech (formerly Oslo MedTech), Oslo Cancer Cluster, NTNU Center for Cyber and Information Security, The Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research and Alpha Venturi.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Academia

2019/12/10

The IOTA Foundation collaborates with Felleskjøpet Agri, InFuture, Yara International, Eurofins TINE SA and Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet (NMBU) on a Smart Farming proof-of-concept.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Energy

2017/11/29

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited by Norwep to its "Colombia-Norway Energy Business Meeting" to present on "IOTA Distributed Ledger Technology beyond Block Chain".

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2019/02/18

IOTA Partners with Cofoundery, Nova, to launch a seed fund supporting DLT start-ups

$224 m

950

Norway

IT

2018/10

NTE joins the IOTA Data Marketplace.

$9.714 bn

11,528

USA

IT

2019/07/02

Lidbot notes on Reddit that "In the future we will work closely with NVIDIA in developing an autonomous waste fleet".

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

NGO

2020/03/17

The Object Management Group hosts another meeting of the "Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group", presenting updates on the process of "IOTA request for comment", further driving its standardisation.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2020/01/22

The Object Management Group hosted a webinar and released a document outlining their Blockchain Interoperability Research, including an exemplary IOTA seven layer model

2019/12/10

Mathew Yarger (IF) is invited by the Object Management Group to talk about "Digital Ledger Basics and Terminology" at the OMG "Trustworthy Digital Elections" workshop.

2019/11/27

The Object Management Group publishes an agenda for an upcoming review meeting regarding the standardisation of several aspects of the IOTA protocol.

2019/11/26

Richard Soley (IF), Chairman of the Object Management Group and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortiumshares insights on industrial needs and applications for DLT and the standardisation of the IOTA protocol, predicted to happen in mid-2020.

2019/09/27

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2019/08/01

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

The Object Management Group publishes a press release about its vote on a set of standardized definitions required in government regulation, discussing standards for crypto assets as well as its progress on standardizing IOTA.

2019/07/03

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2019/06/17

The Object Management Group holds another meeting to discuss standardisation of IOTA.

2019/06/05

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2019/05/08

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2019/04/03

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2019/03/13

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2019/03/03

The Object Management Group invites Mike Bennett, Head of Standards for the IOTA Foundation to present IOTA.

2019/02/06

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2019/01/09

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/12/11

Alexander Renz (IF) and Richard Soley (IF) present IOTA in a panel about "The Future of Distributed Ledger" at the Object Management Group Blockchain event in Seattle.

2018/12/05

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/11/07

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/10/05

The Object Management Group announces an event where Richard Soley (IF), Alexander Renz (IF) and Paul Handy (IF) present different aspects of IOTA.

2018/10/03

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/09/11

The Finance Domain Task Force of the Object Management Group plans a meeting to review the draft RFC for the standardization of the IOTA tangle architecture

2018/09/05

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/08/01

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/07/11

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/06/06

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/05/02

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/04/04

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

2018/03/18

The Object Management Group publishes their latest presentation regarding their efforts to standardise the IOTA protocol.

2018/03/07

The Object Management Group publishes its monthly update on the standardization of IOTA (node, MAM, ternary, etc.).

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Mobility

2019/09/12

Pierre Hoffmann (IF) is invited to the OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum.

2019/06/25

The OECD publishes a working paper on "The Potential for Blockchain Technology in Corporate Governance", referencing IOTA).

2018/09/05

Julie Maupin (IF) represents the IOTA foundation in the "Development & Co-operation" discussion of the OECD Policy Forum on "DLT opportunities and challenges".

2018/09/04

IOTA is mentioned in a presentation at the OECD International transport forum

2018/06/05

The International Transport Forum of the OECD mentions IOTA in a report addressing 59 European transport ministers.

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

Energy

2018/07/06

Officinæ Verdi SpA participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Consulting

2019/08/17

Members of Procedo GmbH, Offis e.V. and KPMG Switzerland publish a paper on "Public Blockchains as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology for Open Data Transmission in Smart Cities", referencing IOTA as one of four potential protocols remaining of 200 analysed blockchains.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Energy

2020/03/04

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited to present on "E-mobility and cities" at the Shell Technology Centre, hosted by the Oil & Gas Reinvented Community, a partnership of Siemens AG, Shell Nederland N.V. and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Finance

2018/06/29

OK Capital publishes a report, analysing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Other

2019/05/14

OKP4, the developers of the SmartFarmers platform, describe how they implemented IOTA, its advantages and plans to reward farmers for their contributed data.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Finance

2019/12/19

Omoku announces that it starts onboarding selected users for IOTA trading.

2019/10/09

Lidbot, Omoku and BIOTA e.V. collaborate on an IOTA-driven recycling solution called "Deposy".

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2018/02/25

Open Source Foundries present its Zephyr microPlatform, publishing sensor data streams to the IOTA tangle, at the Mobile World Congress 2019.

2018/03/14

Open Source Foundries present a demo publishing sensor data to the Tangle

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2019/08/17

A members of the Open University, Great Britain, publishes a book on "Inside Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrencies", referencing IOTA.

$39.83 bn

137,000

USA

IT

2019/05/16

The IOTA Foundation, in collaboration with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Infosys, Oracle, Zita and the Stanford University developed two telecommunications infrastructure marketplaces (based on IOTA MAM) as a TMForum Catalyst project.

$48.7 bn

155,000

France

Communication

2019/07

A sensor of Orange is spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace

2019/05/16

The IOTA Foundation, in collaboration with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Infosys, Oracle, Zita and the Stanford University developed two telecommunications infrastructure marketplaces (based on IOTA MAM) as a TMForum Catalyst project.

2019/02/15

Orange Business Services, a division of Orange telecom, publishes an article titled "Blockchain: from geneis to evolution", naming IOTA the last iteration of DLT technologies.

2017/2018

Orange joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$173 m

423

Sweden

Infrastructure

2018/04/19

InnoEnergy and ÖrebroBostäder AB partner up with IOTA on smart energy community development

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2018/03/14

The Oslo Business Forum publishes an extensive article showcasing Tine's smart farm proof-of-concept based on IOTA, explaining how real-time sensor data can be shared with veterinarians or analysed for milk quality, feed quality, animal or desease activity and be sold on the data marketplace for additional revenue.

2017/2018

The Os!o Business Region joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Healthcare

2018/04/12

Wilfried Pimenta (IF), Koen Maris (IF) and Navin Ramachandran (IF) represent the IOTA foundation in presentations during a workshop of the Oslo Cancer Cluster

2017/06/19

The Oslo Cancer Cluster is part of a new research and innovation network, formed by the IOTA Foundation, Norway Health Tech (formerly Oslo MedTech), NTNU Center for Cyber and Information Security, The Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research and Alpha Venturi.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Finance

2019/05/18

Outlier Ventures publishes a paper "Convergence in Smart Cities" including a citation of Mark Nixon (IF).

2019/02/15

Outlier Ventures (early IOTA investor) tweets a picture from a BMW presentation during the MOBI Grand Challenge at the BMW ITZ (Information Technology Center), showing IOTA on their roadmap for "track and trace, value exchange and sale and autonomy".

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which Outlier Ventures is also a member.

2017/06/12

Outlier Ventures announces a seven figure investment in IOTA

$n.a.

1,300

USA

IT

2019/10/28

Dell Technologies, the Linux Foundation and the IOTA Foundation team up for "Project Alvarium", the development of a codebase seeded by Dell Technologies, known as a "Data Confidence Fabric (DCF)" representing collaborative open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data. In its official press release, the Linux Foundation lists ARM, IBM, MobiledgeX, OSIsoft and Unisys as further project partners.

$1.98 bn

10,000

Great Britain

Infrastructure

2018/09/27

Terry Shane, founder of the "Biotasphere" and CEO of Refined Data Solutions Inc., announces during a Q&A; that Arup will host a "Biotasphere South" location in a new digital Lab to test proof-of-concepts and ideas.

2018/07/06

Ove Arup & Partners SAU participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

2018/11/02

Arup publishes a "Blockchain Technology Report" in which it describes the principles and advantages of IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Other

2019/07/04

PACT Care provides an update on the development of its IOTA-based platform allowing safe exchange of medical records and patient data .

2019/06/27

PACT, developing IOTA-based healthcare data solutions, announces that it has been selected by Data Market Services, an accelerator funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme, helping data centric startups, to join its 2019 programme.

2019/06/12

A peer reviewed study about "Designing a DLT System for Interoperable and GDPR–Compliant Health Data Exchange: A Use Case in Blood Glucose Data" by PACT Care and Navin Ramachandran (IF) of the University College London is published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

$73.15 bn

273,858

Japan

Electronics

2019/12/25

A patent application filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America is published, describing a "management method, management apparatus, and program" referencing IOTA.

2019/09/26

A patent application filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America is published, describing a “Control method, information processing device, management system, and recording medium”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

IT

2019/06/21

Paradigma Digital SL publishes an extensive technical introduction of IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2020/03/03

Parkmotive GmbH, exemplarily integrated a payment flow based on IOTA tokens to interact with a car park barrier.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

NGO

2018/12/22

The Peace Innovation Foundation holds a workshop on securing our DLT-based ID-system for humanitarian workers with their partners from AccesSec, IOTA, Mobaxe, BiiLabs, B4P Solutions and Motorola.

2018/07/12

Julie Maupin (IF), Navin Ramachandran (IF) and David Sonstebo (IF) participate in the kickoff for the first DLT project of the Peace Innovation Foundation

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Ended

2018/04/19

Peaq.io reveals its whitepaper draft and plans to enable the creation of tokens based on top of the IOTA tangle (Note: Peaq later decided to create its own token)

$631 m

469

Germany

IT

2019/04/08

The IOTA Foundation publishes a video of the IOTA-based eCl@ass demonstrator from the Hannover Trade Fair 2019, developed by Neoception and Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH.

2019/04/01

eCl@ss exhibits a set of precise sensors in a demonstrator at the Hannover Trade Fair 2019, further developed by the IOTA Foundation, Neoception and Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH. One of the sensors is e.g. measuring the distance to an object and categorizes the retrieved data through a specific, unique, standardized ID. Any measured distance is being immutably recorded as a data point on the Tangle. From that point, it is easily audible and can be purchased through a micro transaction.

$29.1 bn

114,000

Germany

Electronics

2017/2018

Philips joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Poland

Academia

2019/02/11

Researchers from the Polish Naval Academy, Institute of Naval Weapons and Computer Science and the University of Technology Sydney, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, publish an academic paper on "Blockchain-based renewable energy exchange management system" while “comparing Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric and IOTA” on IEEE.

$n.a.

n.a.

Romania

Academia

2019/06/21

A member of the Polytechnic University Bucharest publishes an academic paper on "Applying Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence to Digital Health", citing IOTA.

2018/08/09

A researcher from Politehnica University of Bucharest publishes an academic paper on IEEE on "Blockchain and Internet of Things data provider for smart applications", presenting a proof of concept method for field devices to store and share data using a distributed ledger built on the IOTA tangle

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of the Technical University of Madrid, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Heilbronn University published a paper titled “Indoor Air-Quality Data-Monitoring System: Long-Term Monitoring Benefits”, referencing IOTA

2019/08/28

Members of the Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University Madrid and the Supercomputing Center Jülich published a paper titled “The Use of the Internet of Things for Estimating Personal Pollution Exposure”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/06

Members of the Polytechnic University Madrid,Copenhagen Business School and Kristiania University College publish a paper "Accelerating Health Data Sharing: A Solution Based on the Internet of Things and Distributed Ledger Technologies", proposing a solution based on IOTA MAM..

2018/11/20

A member of the Polytechnic University Madrid publishes a paper on "IoT Blockchain Technologies for Smart Sensors Based on Raspberry Pi"

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

Academia

2019/12/31

A member of the Polytechnic University of Milan published his master thesis titled “Potentials of Blockchain Technologies in Manufacturing”, referencing IOTA

2019/08/28

Members of the Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University Madrid and the Supercomputing Center Jülich published a paper titled “The Use of the Internet of Things for Estimating Personal Pollution Exposure”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

Academia

2020/01/27

Members of the Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi) and the University of Campania published a paper titled "Blockchain-Based Distributed Trust and Reputation Management Systems: A Survey", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Academia

2019/10/01

The Polytechnic University of Catalonia offers a masters degree in "blockchain technologies", including IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Russia

Academia

2018/01

IOTA, Luxoft and St. Petersburg Polytechnic University supercompute the Tangle

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

Academia

2019/08/18

Members of the Polytechnic University Torino publish a paper on "A Decentralized Marketplace for M2M Economy for Smart Cities", based on IOTA.

2019/06/10

A member of the University of Torino, Italy, publishes a paper on "The state of the art of codesigning distributed ledger technologies for commons and common good", referencing IOTA.

2019/06/21

Members of the Polytechnic University Torino (ISMB, Icelab) publish an academic paper on "A Classification of Distributed Ledger Technology Usages in the Context of Transactive Energy Control Operations", citing IOTA.

2017/12/05

Guido Perboli and two further employees of the ISMB present about Digital Identity, Smart Cities and IOTA.

2017/07/26

The managing director of the ISMB presents IOTA.

2017/07/26

A student from Polytechnic University Torino publishes his thesis on "Advanced data management on Distributed Ledgers: design and implementation of a Telegram BOT as a front end for a IOTA cryptocurrency wallet.

2017/2018

The ISMB joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Chile

Academia

2019/10/20

Members of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile publish a paper titled "Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments", referencing IOTA.

$25.19 bn

24,481

Germany

Mobility

2018/05/31

The DLT manager of Den Norske Bank reveals in an interview that he recently met with the Iota Foundation and Porsche

2018/05/29

Porsche Digital Lab marks Alisa Maas (IF) in a tweet, visiting Porsche (tweet later deleted by Porsche)

2018/05/18

Eric Hop (IF) hints that Porsche might be looking into IOTA implementations during an interview

2018/04/19

Representatives from Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG particpate in a presentation of Samuel Reid (IF) at the Google Campus in Madrid

2018/03/23

The Porsche Innovation Lab welcomes the collaboraton with the IOTA foundation through Startup Autobahn on Twitter

2018/02/27

Representatives from Porsche AG are present at an IOTA meetup for StartupAutobahn

$72 m

n.a.

Norway

IT

2019/10/22

The IOTA Foundation publishes an update of the ongoing efforts with its partners like Powel and SmartMPower of the +CityxChange project under the EU Horizon 2020 project of the European Commission.

2019/02/13

+CityxChange tweets about the recent workshop with Entra ASA, Powel AS, TrønderEnergi, the NTNU and FourC AS around the Brattørkaia energy surplus building, trading energy over IOTA.

2019/02/13

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies publishes an article outlining the setup of the surplus energy building in Brattørkaia, Trondheim, and the meeting of leaders from Engie Lab Crigen, Entra, IOTA Foundation, NTNU, POWEL, Trianel, Trondheim municipality and TrønderEnergi to explore new energy solutions and business models around IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.

2018/07/06

Powel AS participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$618.92 m

4,800

Finland

Consulting

2018/03

Pöyry publishes a report in which they describe their expectations on energy distribution and data managament of the future describing IOTA as a potential base technology and include an image from a workshop they did with IOTA and Eurelectric.

2017/11/11

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited by Pöyry and Eurelectric to present IOTA.

$22.29 bn

33,800

USA

Electronics

2019/07/20

Qualcomm selected BiiLabs as one of ten teams for its six months lasting “Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge (QITC)”, assisting them in development, with counselling, engineering resources and patenting. The two final winning teams will receive a total of $300,000

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2019/12/23

Members of the CSIRO, University of New South Wales and Queensland University of Technology published a paper titled "Analysis of Data Management in Blockchain-Based Systems: From Architecture to Governance", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Other

2019/11/21

A patent for a "Distributed Ledger Payments Platform for Telecoms" is published for Qredo Ltd, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2019/10/31

Members of the University of Osnabrück publish a report analysing the "Potential of selected DLT's for agricultural food chains on the example of the QS System" for the QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH.

$41.3 bn

250,930

Great Britain

Consulting

2019/11/13

PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg organises a meetup on its premises to "discuss the basics, the latest developments and the applications of IOTA".

2018/04/08

The bIOTAsphere publishes a short video of its recent "half-day educational session for senior leaders at PricewaterhouseCoopers".

2018/02/19

PWC Germany publishes an article dubbed "Forget Bitcoin! The future of blockchain lies in smart contracts", featuring IOTA.

2017/10

PWC in cooperation with the World Energy Council publishes a report on "The Developing Role of Blockchain", recognizing IOTA as a next generation solution overcoming the shortcomings of traditional blockchains.

2017/10/08

PWC Germany publishes an article mentioning IOTA as a solution to facilitate decentralized processes without a middlemen.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2019/06/20

Primority and the IOTA Foundation partner to collaborate in order to ensure food transparency and consumer safety on an easy-to-use and innovative approach combining the best of cutting-edge technologies.

2019/03/27

Michele Nati (IF) presents an IOTA solution based on 3iVerify by Primority at the Food on the Move Conference in London.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

IT

2019/03/28

Proxeus, by Blockfactory AG, announces a succesful IOTA-based trial of shipment tracking, using RFID chips to track palettes across connected terminals.

2019/03/18

Blockfactory publishes a video of a shipment tracking system based on IOTA, developed in collaboration with the logistics startup Sytrax.

$n.a.

n.a.

Venezuela

IT

2018/11/07

Prozess Group cooperates with Ariwonto to integrate IOTA in a market-ready solution with Microsoft Dynamics

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Consulting

2019/08/17

Members of Procedo GmbH, Offis e.V. and KPMG Switzerland publish a paper on "Public Blockchains as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology for Open Data Transmission in Smart Cities", referencing IOTA as one of four potential protocols remaining of 200 analysed blockchains.

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

IT

2018/02/28

Members of the Ramon Llull University published a paper titled “A Custom Approach for a Flexible, Real-Time and Reliable Software Defined Utility”, referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Canada

IT

2018/09/27

Terry Shane, CEO of Refined Data Solutions Inc., presents a proof-of-concept for a situation-based car insurance model during NewCO in the Biotasphere, reading data from a Tesla X and streaming it to the IOTA tangle, paying insurance fees based on driver behaviour. Apparently, Shane was already in talks with insurers (see link)

$n.a.

n.a.

Europe

NGO

2017/08/04

Refunite announces its partnership with the IOTA foundation

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

2018/07/06

Research2Market Solutions participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Academia

2019/08/27

Members of Cybercrypt AS, the Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems (IRISA) and the Technical University Denmark publish a paper titled "Troika: a ternary cryptographic hash function", analysing IOTA's new hash function.

$n.a.

n.a.

Japan

Finance

2019/11/01

Members of the japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Leland Capital, Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune and the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan publish a paper on "Blockchain Business and its Regulation", citing IOTA among Bitcoin and Ethereum as the only "risk-free projects".

$n.a.

n.a.

Austria

IT

2019/09/01

Riddle&Code; and MHP, a subsidiary of Porsche, publish a joint paper titled "The Automotive Sector and Blöockchain", multiple times referencing IOTA and proof-of-concepts, e.g. by JaguarLandrover.

2019/07/31

T-Labs, the innovation lab of Deutsche Telekom, published a proof-of-concept called "xRide", a decentralized open mobility system based on identity and payment solutions by IOTA, ETH, Riddle & Code, UbirchGmbH (and others). According to John Calian, Senior Vice President and Head of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs, the blockchain scooter is going to be launched as a pilot on September 11th, 2019 in Bonn.

2018/12/12

Riddle & Code presents in the IOTA meetup in Zurich, hosted by Swicsscom.

2018/12/03

Riddle&Code; GmbH and the IOTA Foundation agree on a partnership to "enable the Industrial Internet of Things", specifically end-to-end encryption from device authentication to storage in the IOTA Tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Mobility

2019/09/12

A patent application filed by Robust Analytics Inc is published, describing a “Method and network to implement decentralized validation and authentication mechanisms to prevent ads-b cyber-attacks”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/05/07

Rocket Wagon Venture Studios appoints Jochen Renz (IF) as Managing Drector to "realize technology-driven business model innovations that are based on the convergence of IoT with robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality and distributed ledger technologies".

$27.2 b

453,000

Russia

Other

2019/12/17

Members of Rostec, a Russian state-owned holding conglomerate, asserts IOTA superior qualities in their paper "Development Prospects for Decentralised Payment Systems".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/11/01

Rottmann Willnow Ventures GmbH (R13W) lists the IOTA Foundation as a "company" they work with.

$388.4 bn

82,000

Netherlands

Energy

2020/03/04

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited to present on "E-mobility and cities" at the Shell Technology Centre, hosted by the Oil & Gas Reinvented Community, a partnership of Siemens AG, Shell Nederland N.V. and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2017/06/07

RSK announces an integration demo from the IOTA foundation

$50.70 bn

59,547

Germany

Energy

2018/02/15

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “Building automation system”, referencing IOTA.

2017/12/28

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “Software defined networking system”, referencing IOTA.

2017/12/27

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing an “Augmented reality system”, referencing IOTA.

2017/11/23

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “Peer-to-peer network and node of a peer-to-peer network”, referencing IOTA.

2017/11/09

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “Traffic system”, referencing IOTA.

2017/11/09

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “System for evaluating telemetry data”, referencing IOTA.

2017/10/05
A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “Production system controllable by means of a peer-to-peer application”, referencing IOTA.
2017/06/08

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “Charging system for vehicles”, referencing IOTA.

2017/06/08

A patent application filed by RWE International SE is published, describing a “Supply medium (e.g. electrical power) transaction agreement system”, referencing IOTA.

2017/05/18

A patent application filed by RWE AG is published, describing an “System and method for transporting an object”, referencing IOTA..

2016/06/01

The partners ElectriCChain, SolarCoin, Solcrypto, Bitseed, IOTA, and RWE, the first Chain of Things Case Study Event focused on the secure logging of solar energy production data to a distributed blockchain ledger

$n.a.

n.a.

Finland

Supply chain

2017/12/18

Ruuvi announces its partnership with the IOTA foundation

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Mobility

2019/01/18

SafeBikely is working on an IOTA integration.

$26.59 bn

90,120

Germany

IT

2020/02/08

SAP shares an article ecplaining "o send the IoT data to the IOTA Tangle with SAP HANA XSA and display it real-time in SAP Analytics Cloud".

2019/11/04

SAP publishes an hour-long interview with Dominik Schiener through its "SAP Customer Experience Labs".

2019/04/01

eCl@ss discusses its demonstration at the Hannover Trade Fair 2019 with a representative from SAP.

2011/01/20

SAP publishes an amusing video from its recent blockchain summit, featuring Julie Maupin (IF).

2018/12/08

A sensor, contributing data to the invite-only Data Marketplace with the owner-tag "SAP" is spotted.

2017/08/31

Julie Maupin (IF) is invited as speaker on behalf of IOTA to the SAP Enterprise Blockchain Summit

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Ended

2017/08/31

Satoshipay anonnounces a finished PoC based on IOTA (Note: Satoshipay later received a donation from Stellar and integrated their solution with them).

2017/07/17

Satoshipay announces to phase out Bitcoin and use with IOTA instead (Note: Satoshipay later received a donation from Stellar and integrated their solution with them).

$n.a.

n.a.

Korea

Academia

2017/12/06

Researchers of the University of Malaya, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology and Sangji University publish an academic research paper on IEEE, analysing "Decentralized Consensus for Edge-Centric Internet of Things: A Review, Taxonomy, and Research Issues", citing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Electronics

2017/2018

Samsung Artik joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$221.6 bn

320,671

Korea

Electronics

2019/10/31

A patent application filed by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd was published, describing “Machine learning on blockchain”, referencing IOTA (and Ethereum)

$n.a.

n.a.

Sweden

IT

2020/01/30

Scaaler IoT Labs and the IOTA Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding about working closely together to “represent blockchain technology in swedish and norwegian Smartcity & IoT projects”

2020/01/28

Scaaler IoT Labs reports of a project involving IoT-enabled solar panels enabling trusted certification on renewable energy, directly distributed to customers, shaping up at Glava Energy, involving the IOTA Foundation and SunEnergy

$10.03 bn

58,271

Germany

Electronics

2018/05/10

The CEO of Schindler Group joins the IOTA Foundations advisory board

2018/05/06

The CEO of Schindler Group updates his CV and includes his position as Member of the IOTA advisory board

$25.72 bn

155,286

France

Electronics

2017/11/28

Schneider Electric SE collaborates with IOTA while also joining the IOTA Data Marketplace.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2019/09/25

Members of CSIRO, the University of New South Wales, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre publishes a paper titled "Blockchain Technologies for IoT", referencing IOTA.

$1.87 bn

4,900

Germany

Electronics

2019/03/27

Schüco hosts an IOTA Ecosystem Meetup in Berlin

2018

Schüco joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Korea

Academia

2020/02/18

Members of the Seoul National University and Soongsil University published a paper titled "A Scalable IoT Protocol via an Efficient DAG-based Distributed Ledger Consensus", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/12/09

Members of the University of Brest, Shanghai Maritime University and Aalborg University publish a paper titled "Microgrid Transactive Energy Systems: A Perspective on Design, Technologies, and Energy Markets", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/04/23

A patent application filed by Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is published and awarded to it, describing “A kind of block chain spatiotemporal data warehouse system and electronic equipment”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Other

2019/11/28

A patent application filed by Sidereal Technologies LLC is published, describing “Methods and systems for automated data processing”, referencing IOTA.

$97.52 bn

372,007

Germany

Electronics

2020/02/19

A patent application filed by Siemens AG was published, describing a “Manufacturing Composite for Producing a Product and Method for Settlement of Services between Industrial Manufacturing Modules”, referencing IOTA.

2020/01/30

A patent application filed by Siemens AG was published, describing “Controlling a data network with respect to a use of a Distributed Database”, referencing IOTA.

2020/01/22

A patent application filed by Siemens AG was published, describing “Resource reservation for transactions of a distributed database system”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/22

A patent application filed by Siemens AG was published, describing “Traffic shaping for transactions of a distributed database system”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/22

A patent application filed by Siemens AG was published, describing “Timing constraints for transactions of a distributed database system”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/16

A patent was granted to Siemens AG and extended, describing the “Protection of login processes”, referencing IOTA (and others)

2020/01/15

A patent application filed by Siemens AG was published, describing “Method, Devices and System for Exchanging Data Between a Distributed Database System and Devices”, referencing IOTA, IoTChain and Byteball

2019/12/05

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Method and system for controlling the release of a resource“ in scenarios where “the networked devices do not trust one another”, referencing IOTA

2019/10/24

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Method and control system for controlling and/or monitoring devices“, referencing IOTA

2019/09/26

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Computer-implemented method for providing data, in particular for conformity tracking”, referencing IOTA.

2019/09/25

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing the “Monitoring of emissions by means of a distributed database”, referencing IOTA.

2019/07/25

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Method and system for controlling and/or monitoring devices”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/27

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Method for protecting the production data for producing a product”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/03

Thorsten Kroke from eCl@ss showcases IoT demonstrations including eCl@ss standards and IOTA at the W3C "Web of Things Open Day", hosted by Siemens.

2019/05/29

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Processing method of service requests performed by a service provider node”, referencing IOTA.

2019/05/29

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Protection of login processes”, referencing IOTA.

2019/05/02

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a "Method and control system for controlling and/or monitoring devices”, referencing IOTA.

2019/04/11

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Transaction selection device for selecting blockchain transactions”, referencing IOTA.

2019/04/04

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing a “Method and distributed database system for computer-aided execution of a program code”, referencing IOTA.

2019/02/21

A patent application filed by Siemens AG is published, describing “Devices for providing a set of cryptographically secured and filtered and sorted transaction data sets of a block of a blockchain”, referencing IOTA.

2019/01/24

Eric Chong, President & CEO of Siemens Asia allegedley mentions IOTA in relation to smart cities in a Hong Kong event.

2018/07/09

Siemens AG participates in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Electronics

2019/06/06

Senseering GmbH publishes information of its "Edgebox" which "immutilizes sensor data e.g. on the IOTA ledger".

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/06/17

Simform publishes an extensive introduction to the IOTA protocol on its website.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Academia

2019/01/28

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited by SINTEF as speaker to a "Seminar on Data Sharing Ecosystems" to present "IOTA Tangle, an opensource Distributed Ledger Technology for a decentralized Internet-of-Things economy".

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Ended

2018/01/12

SirinLabs announces its smartphone based on IOTAs technology (Note: Sirin later decided to create its own token)

$n.a.

n.a.

Ireland

Energy

2019/10/18

SmartMPower publishes an update about the +CityxChange smart energy project involving IOTA as base currency for energy trading.

2019/10/18

SmartMPower publishes an update about the +CityxChange smart energy project involving IOTA.

2018/07/06

Smart MPower participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

IT

2019/09/26

BiiLabs and Softchef "join forces to launch ‘Benchy-Alfred’, a new SaaS platform for M2M encrypted IoT data".

$n.a.

n.a.

Bangladesh

Academia

2020/01/27

Members of the Edith Cowan University, Canberra Institute of Technology and Southeast University Bangladesh published a book titled "Security Analytics for the Internet of Everything", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/12/31

Members of the Shandong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong published a paper titled "A Highly Parallelized PIM-based Accelerator for Transaction-based Blockchain in IOT Environment", referencing IOTA.

2019/06/18

A patent application filed by Shandong University is published, describing “A kind of randomly selected ReRAM of acceleration block chain MCMC and its working method”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/11

A patent application filed by Shandong University is published, describing “A kind of chip and system accelerating IOTA subchain transaction verification process”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Healthcare

2020/01/30

Skaly announces "Freighter", a second layer protocol for heavy data scalability on IOTA

2019/10/04

Skaly presents its IOTA-based monitoring solutin at ExecInsurtech.

2019/10/01

Skaly presents its IOTA-based healthcare proof-of-concept at Execinsurtech.

2019/08/08

Skaly presents a GDPR-compliant and IOTA-based health data solution and announces an official partnership with the dutch health monitoring devices manufacturer Tanita, as well as another pilot with an (unnamed) health care organisation in Q4 2019 at the 5th Dutch IOTA Meetup.

2019/03/04

Skaly reveals that it had "a very fruitful meeting with Tanita, the worldwide leader in health monitoring [...] demonstrating our hard- and software".

$n.a.

n.a.

Bulgaria

Academia

2017/11/26

The Software University Bulgaria starts its own IOTA community.

$1.02 bn

4,396

Germany

IT

2020/02/11

The CTO of Software AG announced the participation of Software AG in the "Tangle Enterprise Edition" working group.

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2020/02/11

An article of the CTO of Software AG was published, providing "Three Reasons IOTA will Elevate Blockchain".

2020/03/12

The CTO of Software AG presents on the topic of “Where we stand from a customer perspective” at the IOTA Vienna Meetup

2020/01/11

The CTO of Software AG tweets about the strategic integration of the IOTA protocol in their portfolio, including the token, qubic, MAM and (future) second layer protocols and explains the ongoing process in further detail in a Reddit post.

2019/11/29

Christoph Strnadel, Vice President Innovation and Architecture at Software AG, states that they "have been working intensively with IOTA this year" and hints at upcoming information about it. .

2019/06/21

The "Vice President Innovation & Architecture" at Software AG shares his opinion on Facebook's Libra coin on Twitter and suggests "if you want to do something global, go look how @iotatoken is doing this".

$n.a.

n.a.

Korea

Academia

2019/07/05

A patent application filed by Sogang University is published, describing a “Method for searching using data structure supporting multiple search in blockchain based IoT environment, and apparatus thereof”, referencing IOTA.

2019/06/20

A patent application filed by Sogang University is published, describing a “Search method using data structure for supporting multiple search in blockchain-based iot environment, and device according to method”, referencing IOTA.

2019/05/01

Members of the Sogang University publish a paper on "Decentralized Directed acyclic graph based DLT Network", analyzing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

China

IT

2016/06/01

The partners ElectriCChain, SolarCoin, Solcrypto, Bitseed, IOTA, and RWE, the first Chain of Things Case Study Event focused on the secure logging of solar energy production data to a distributed blockchain ledger

$n.a.

7

USA

IT

2019/05/30

SonicCell publishes a video on how to "IOTA MAM Publish Sensor Data to MAM Ch store local".

2019/04/14

SonicMessenger releases versions for MacOS, Windows and Linux for ther IOTA Rapid Development Platform, icluding an updated IOTA MAM version.

2018/10/28

SonicMessenger releases their open source rapid software development tool "SonicCell", enabling developers to easily create custom programs for distributed systems, optimized for developing Internet of Things and DLT applications for IOTA by integrating IOTA Components, such as e.g. Masked Authenticated Messaging.

2018/10/13

SonicMessenger presents their car title transfer solution based on IOTA to the MOBI consortium.

2018/05/01

SonicMessenger LLC is working on several applications based on IOTA technology for the IoT, including mobility communication platforms and identification systems (SonicID).

$n.a.

n.a.

Korea

Academia

2020/02/18

Members of the Seoul National University and Soongsil University published a paper titled "A Scalable IoT Protocol via an Efficient DAG-based Distributed Ledger Consensus", referencing IOTA.

$4.67 bn

40,000

France

Consulting

2019/08/30

The IOTA Foundation shares a stand with SopraSteria at the Powerhouse Festival Trondheim, where they demonstrate a proof-of-concept for smart cities, developed in collaboration with EngieLabCrigen and Entra ASA's positive energy building.

2019/03/22

Sopra Steria announces a meetup with its partners Entra, DNV GL Veracity, Mimiro-InFuture, NEXT Biometrics and other key Norwegian stakeholders "explore new pathways to value creation in the Internet-of-Things and the new digital economy".

2019/03/08

Sopra Steria promotes its sponsorship of the IOTA "Smart District challenge" hackathon on Twitter.

2019/02/25

Sopra Steria publishes a press release about its sponsoring of the IOTA "Smart District challenge" hackathon.

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

2018/04/04

Sopra Steria invites Wilfried Pimenta (IF) to a "Conference Breakfast" on the "Blockchain Revolution: Impact on trusted Third Parties"

2017/11/09

Sopra Steria announces their partnership with the IOTA foundation

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Infrastructure

2017/2018

South East Water joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Ireland

IT

2018/07/06

Space Engagers participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2018/11/09

Spacebit publishes an article in which it explains their work of "bringing the functionality of the Tangle to its intended state, and along with a large number of corporations and international organisations".

2018/10/15

Spacebit announces to explore the "IOTA architecture, ensuring interoperability with EOS, which will include some of the first Qubic protocol layer applications over the Tangle", using IOTA "for specific space related applications such as an IoT network of multiple space vehicles using Qubic for AI and outsourced heavy computing".

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

IT

2019/07/18

A patent application filed by Spera Inc is published, describing “Techniques for Blockchain Transactions”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2018/12/30

Members of the University Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College and Fordham University publish a paper on "A Review on Crypto-Currency Transactions Using IOTA ".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2020/01/22

Star Finanz GmbH (a well-known german finance/tax software provider) introduces IOTA in a blog post on its website

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/05/15

Members of the Technical University of Berlin, 51 nodes GmbH and Star Cooperation GmbH published a paper titled "Trusted systems of records based on Blockchain technology - a prototype for mileage storing in the automotive industry", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2018/07/19

Alisa Mass (IF) wins the first round for IOTA at StartupAutobahn pitch

$6.28 bn

n.a.

Norway

Energy

2018/07/06

Statkraft Varme AS participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/09/21

Members of the University of Southern California and Binghamton University publish a paper titled "BlendSM-DDM: BLockchain-ENabled Secure Microservices for Decentralized Data Marketplaces", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/01/19

Members of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute publish a paper on "Tango: The Beginning-A Semi-Synchronous Iota-Tangle Type Distributed Ledger with Periodic Pulsed Entries".

2019/01/12

Members of the State University of New York publish a paper on "Semi-synchronocity Enabling Protocol and Pulsed Injection Protocol For A Distributed Ledger System", basing their reasearch on IOTA.

2018/10/17

Members of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute publish a paper on "Parameterized Pulsed Transaction Injection Computation Model And Performance Optimizer For IOTA-Tango".

$n.a.

n.a.

Greece

IT

2019/08/15

Members of Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions Ltd., Singular Logic and Ubitech publish a paper titled "Designing a Trusted Data Brokerage Framework in the Aviation Domain", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/06/07

A patent application filed by Sun Yet-sen University is published, describing “A kind of block chain building method”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Other

2020/02/28

Supervecina publishes a video of showing an electrical charging procedure, using IOTA transactions in combination with WhatsApp.

$49 m

n.a.

Germany

Infrastructure

2018/10

Sweco joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$9.7 bn

45,500

Netherlands

Electronics

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2020/02/04

ST Microelectronics presented IOTA at an internal ecosystem partner meeting in Milano, Italy

2020/02/01

ST Microelectronics promotes its IOTA-integrated hardware solution on Twitter

2020/01/22

Fabrizio Rovati, Software Platforms & Cloud Director at STMicroelectronics discusses in an interview how they use IOTA

2020/01/13

Chipmaker STMicroelectronics publishes an article titled "X-CUBE-IOTA1 or IOTA on STM32, Experiment with the Crypto for IoT", describing its middleware developed for the IOTA protocol.

2019/12/05

Fabrizio Rovati, "Software Platforms & Cloud Director" at STMicroelectronics hosted a talk "about DLT for IoT with IOTA as case study – and the reasons why it is being increasingly adopted in IoT distributed solutions".

2019/11/15

Fabrizio Rovati, Software Platforms & Cloud Director at ST Microelectronics, held a tech talk "focusing on DLT for IoT, with IOTA as case study".

2019/11/10

STMicroelectronics publishes a paper titled "Secure and Effective Implementation of an IOTA Light Node using STM32".

2019/10/24

STMicroelectronics retweets an article in which it explained its CUBE-IOTA1 hardware integration.

2019/07/23

Alessandro Maloberti, Director of Partner Ecosystem at STMicroelectronics explains the advantages of STM’s customer base of ~100,000 companies now having access to IOTA through its hardware

2019/06/10

STMicroelectronics N.V., Europe's largest chip manufacturer, publishes an expansion software package “X-CUBE-IOTA1” for its STM32 ARM processor series, including middleware to enable IOTA DLT on-chip functions. The suite has been presented to the IOTA Foundation at SumSum 2019.

$n.a.

n.a.

Hongkong

Finance

2019/10/31

A patent application for "Peer-to-peer database protocol for distributed ledger technology (dlt)-based tokens" by Swap Holdings Ltd. is published, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2020/02/13

Members of the Swinburne University of Technology, La Trobe University and CSIRO Data61 published a paper titled "Towards a Trusted Marketplace for Wearable Data", referencing IOTA.

$11.72 bn

20,506

Switzerland

Communication

2019/01/30

Swisscom Blockchain and the IOTA Foundation hold a 3-day IOTA Developer training course.

2018/12/12

Swisscom hosts an IOTA meetup in Zurich.

2018/11/30

Swisscom announces to host an IOTA meetup on December 12th.

2018/10

Swisscom joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Supply Chain

2019/03/18

Blockfactory publishes a video of a shipment tracking system based on IOTA, developed in collaboration with the logistics startup Sytrax.

2017/11/08

Sytrax tweets that it is planning to use IOTA to track wooden palettes.

$n.a.

n.a.

Hungary

Academia

2019/07/17

Members of the Széchenyi István University, University of Reading and University of Vienna published a paper on “Leveraging the Internet of Things and Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management”, referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Malaysia

IT

2018/07/12

Tactilis collaborates with the Peace Innovation Foundation and IOTA on DLT projects

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

IT

2018/04/24

Taiwan AI Labs announces their plans to move ptt.cc (10m user taiwanese social network) onto the IOTA tangle

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Healthcare

2019/08/08

Skaly presents a GDPR-compliant and IOTA-based health data solution and announces an official partnership with the dutch health monitoring devices manufacturer Tanita, as well as another pilot with an (unnamed) health care organisation in Q4 2019 at the 5th Dutch IOTA Meetup.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Mobility

2020/01/24

A group of engineers, analysts and R&D; specialists of Tata Elxsi (subsidiary of Tata Motors) published a paper proposing to use the IOTA Tangle to address various drawbacks of current vehicular ad hoc networks

$4.77 bn

113,550

India

IT

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

2018

Tech Mahindra joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/09/06

Members of the Technical University Berlin, Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH and the Qatar Computing Research Institute publish a paper on "Agora: Towards An Open Ecosystem for Democratizing Data Science & Artificial Intelligence", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/02

Members of the Technical University Berlin and Fraunhofer Institute publish a paper on "Industry 4.0 as enabler for a sustainable development: A qualitative assessment of its ecological and social potential", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/15

Members of the Technical University of Berlin, 51 nodes GmbH and Star Cooperation GmbH published a paper titled "Trusted systems of records based on Blockchain technology - a prototype for mileage storing in the automotive industry", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/07/06

Members of the Technical University Clausthal publish a paper on "The Significant Role of Metadata for Data Marketplaces", referencing the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Denmark

Academia

2019/08/27

Members of Cybercrypt AS, the Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems (IRISA) and the Technical University Denmark publish a paper titled "Troika: a ternary cryptographic hash function", analysing IOTA's new hash function.

$n.a.

n.a.

Moldova

Academia

2019/09/23

Members of the University of Moldova published a paper titled "IoT: Internet of Things, advantages and disadvantages", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/02

Members of the Technical University of Moldova publish a paper on "Internet of Things, Advantages and Disadvantages", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2018/12/10

Members of the Technical University Munich publish a paper on "CIDDS: A Configurable and Distributed DAG-based Distributed Ledger Simulation Framework"

2018/08/15

A project born at the Technical University Munich receives a grant from the IOTA ecosystem fund

2017/2018

The Technical University Munich joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

2017/12/22

Serguei Popov holds a talk at the Technical University Munich.

2017/12/19
The Technical University Munich includes IOTA in its winter semester 2017/2018 "Embedded systems and Internet of Things".
2017/10/23

A student of the TUM hands in his bachelor thesis dubbed "Technical Analysis of the Tangle in the IOTA-Environment".

$n.a.

n.a.

Austria

Academia

2019/09/19

Members of the Ural Federal University, Ufa State Aviation Technical University and Technical University Vienna publish a paper "On Application of Distributed Ledgers for Internet of Things in Russia", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/17

Members of the Széchenyi István University, University of Reading and University of Vienna published a paper on “Leveraging the Internet of Things and Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management”, referencing IOTA

2019/03/21

Members of the Technical University Vienna publish a paper "Blockchains for IoT Payments: A Survey", including IOTA.

2019/03/13

Members of the Technical University Vienna publish a paper on "On IOTA as a potential enabler for an M2M economy in manufacturing".

2018/05/15

The Technical University Vienna presents an IOTA-based painting robot as a PoC to illustrate manufaturing applications at the InterTool trade fair.

2018/04/25

An article from a working student of the Technical University Vienna is published on the official BOSCH blog.

2018/03/30

The Technical University Vienna is working on several IOTA use cases

$2.94 bn

n.a.

Sweden

Communication

2017/2018

Tele2 joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

IT

2018/06/01

A digital transformation manager from Telefonica tweets about the advantages of IOTA from the Alastria HackDay

$8.51 bn

9,464

Spain

Communication

2018/07/09

Wayra, the Telefonica incubator, participates in the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

2018/06/01

A digital transformation manager from Telefonica tweets about the advantages of IOTA from the Alastria HackDay

$20.3 bn

36,000

Australia

Communication

2018

Telstra joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2019/08/15

A patent application filed by Texas Precious Metals LLC is published, describing “Tracking and verifying authenticity of an asset via a distributed ledger”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2020/01/22

Members of the Texas Tech University, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Auburn University at Montgomery and University of Houston published a paper titled "Nonlinear Blockchain Scalability: a Game-Theoretic Perspective", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Electronics

2018

The Yield joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

IT

2019/10/30

ThingsLab co-sponsors the IOTA Italia Meetup.

2019/09/10

ThingsLab publishes an article about its IOTA-based smart lock proof-of-concept.

2019/08/28

Things Lab publishes an article about its Distributed Data Logger, extending the functinality of IOTA MAM channels, making it possible to jump from one message to the other to get to the desired one in a considerably less amount of time.

2019/04/17

Things Lab publishes another video showcasing its IOTA-based supply chain solution.

2019/03/12

Things Lab publishes a video for an IOTA-based solution for anti-counterfeit.

2019/03/05

Things Lab releases further details on its digital signature system based on IOTA.

2019/03/01

The CEO of Things Lab presents IOTA to 50 managers of Hewlett Packard Italy

$11.16 bn

45,000

Canada

Consulting

2016/12/27

Thomson Reuters hosts “HacktheValley”, an IOTA and Ethereum hackathon

$2.53 bn

5,600

Norway

Other

2019/12/10

The IOTA Foundation collaborates with Felleskjøpet Agri, InFuture, Yara International, Eurofins TINE SA and Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet (NMBU) on a Smart Farming proof-of-concept.

2018/03/11

Tine showcases it's smart farm proof-of-concept based on IOTA, explaining how real-time sensor data can be shared with veterinarians or analysed for milk quality, feed quality, animal or desease activity and be sold on the data marketplace for additional revenue.

2017/2018

Tine joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Mobility

2016/11/21

TIP Trailer Services B.V. tweets about IOTAs advantages

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Communication

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/05/15

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited to a panel discussion in the "AI and Data Strategy track" together with the Vice President of Watson AI of IBM and the Product Lead of Vodafone India at the TMForum, a non-profit, global industry association representing over 850 member companies comprised of communications service providers at its Digital Transformation World event.

2019/01/31

The IOTA Foundation becomes a member of tmForum, a non-profit, global industry association representing over 850 member companies that generate USD 2 trillion in revenue. TMForum drives the transformation of communications service providers (CSPs) and their suppliers.

$n.a.

n.a.

Russia

Academia

2020/01/16

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal and Tomsk Polytechnic University published a paper titled "A Blockchain-based Framework for Lightweight Data Sharing and Energy Trading in V2G Network", based on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2019/04/24

Tonik Consulting is looking for an "IoT Platform Engineer", well versed in the IOTA protocol.

$n.a.

180

Germany

Infrastructure

2019/11/07

Topocare publishes a video about its IOTA-based supply chain PoC.

2019/11/05

Topocare publishes an article about "Implementing an IOTA based Supply Chain Documentation".

2019/04/06

Topocare publishes a summary of its pay-per-use IOTA-based prototype it presented at the Hannover Trade fair 2019.

2019/03/28

Topocare publishes an article detailing their use of IOTA Masked Authenticated Messaging to achieve data integrity.

2019/01/10

Simon Jegelka, Managing Director of the flood protection start-up Topocare talks about their IOTA-integration in the IOTA podcast.

2018/12/13

Topocare releases its second status report on its work of their IOTA-based pay-on-production (PoP) model.

2018/09/20

Simon Jegelka from Topocare publishes the first status report, describing Topocares IOTA proof-of-concept.

$n.a.

n.a.

Japan

Academia

2020/01/01

Members of the University of Indonesia and Tokyo International University published a paper titled “The requirements of cryptocurrency for money, an Islamic view”, referencing IOTA (and others).

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2020/01/16

A patent application filed by Totle Inc was published, describing a “System and method for cryptocurrency trading”, referencing IOTA (and others).

$n.a.

180

France

Communication

2018/12/12

Transatel hosts an IOTA meetup in Paris, France.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

IT

2019/10/16

The IOTA-based case study of BiiLabs and TransIoT has been published on Amazon AWS.

2019/04/12

BiiLabs publishes an article further describing their collaboration with TransIoT to offer a Tangle-based "Usage-Based Insurance" architecture.

2019/03/28

BiiLabs publishes an article detailing the use of their IOTA based platform "Alfred" jointly with cloud platform provider TransIoT to enable usage-based insurance (UBI).

$2.53 bn

340

Germany

Energy

2019/09/01

The IOTA Foundation publishes a brochure detailing the efforts of the smart city working group within the +CityXChange, consisting of ENGIE Lab, Energinet, Trianel, Entra, TronderEnergi and Enexis.

2019/04/16

The Head of Tradescouting of Trianel talks about how their "Open Innovation Initiative", started by Trianel and the IOTA Foundation in 2018, attracted a number of major players in the european energy market and how they explore how IOTA could be applied in the context of Peer to Peer (P2P) energy markets.

2019/03/22

Sopra Steria announces a meetup with its partners Entra, DNV GL Veracity, Mimiro-InFuture, NEXT Biometrics and other key Norwegian stakeholders "explore new pathways to value creation in the Internet-of-Things and the new digital economy".

2019/02/13

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies publishes an article outlining the setup of the surplus energy building in Brattørkaia, Trondheim, and the meeting of leaders from Engie Lab Crigen, Entra, IOTA Foundation, NTNU, POWEL, Trianel, Trondheim municipality and TrønderEnergi to explore new energy solutions and business models around IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.

2018/07/31

Trianel is invited by by the Government of Northrein Westphalia to provide its opinion on the changing energy distribution landscape, mentioning its work on IOTA-based solutions.

2017/11/28

Trianel joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2019/12/19

Johannes Barckmann and Alexander Süssemilch from EDAG Engineering explain status quo of the IOTA integration into the autonomous EDAG City Bot, as well as the IOTA-enabled Trive.me parking app.

2019/09/25

D-Fine publishes an article detailing the smart parking proof-of-concept it developed in collaboration with Trive.me and the IOTA Foundation.

2019/09/22

The Trive.me product owner tweets from the EDAG booth at the IAA where the EDAG City Bot is jointly presented with the IOTA team.

2019/09/11

EDAG Engineering presents its Trive.me "Citybot" at the IAA 2019 press conference, also explaining the advantages and integration of IOTA as communication protocol and payment solution.

2019/09/10

Trive.me presents its (also) IOTA-based parking solution at the IAA 2019.

2019/09/11

Holger Koether (IF), Jan Pauseback (IF) and Anne Smith (IF) are invited by EDAG Engineering to present the IOTA-enabled "CityBot" by Trive.meat the IAA2019 trade fair.

2019/08/22

EDAG Engineering‘s Trive.me lists IOTA as „prototypical feature“ for the second generation of its parking app solution.

2019/08/20

Edag Engineering, through its subsidiary Trive.me announces a new parking solution including app, based on IOTA.

2018/11/22

Trive.me presents an update on their car wallet at the IOTA Munich community meetup.

2018/03/15

Shadi Aburok of Trive.me publishes an article about the M2M IOTA payment system his team developed during the BOSCH Connected World Hackathon (BCX18).

$103 m

500

Norway

Energy

2019/09/01

The IOTA Foundation publishes a brochure detailing the efforts of the smart city working group within the +CityXChange, consisting of ENGIE Lab, Energinet, Trianel, Entra, TronderEnergi and Enexis.

2019/02/13

+CityxChange tweets about the recent workshop with Entra ASA, Powel AS, TrønderEnergi, the NTNU and FourC AS around the Brattørkaia energy surplus building, trading energy over IOTA.

2019/02/13

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies publishes an article outlining the setup of the surplus energy building in Brattørkaia, Trondheim, and the meeting of leaders from Engie Lab Crigen, Entra, IOTA Foundation, NTNU, POWEL, Trianel, Trondheim municipality and TrønderEnergi to explore new energy solutions and business models around IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.

2018/07/06

TrønderEnergi Kraft AS participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Infrastructure

2019/07/20

Members of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim kommune and ITARK consulting publish a paper on "A Smart City Ecosystem enabling Open Innovation", outlining the challenges in designing an architecture for a flexible, open, transferable, and replicable smart city ecosystem, spanning a plethora of suppliers and systems, around the smart city and energy project +CityxChange, referencing IOTA .

2019/06/01

Members of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Kommune and ITARK Consulting publish a paper on "A Smart City Ecosystem Enabling Open Innovation", detailing how IOTA can be used as a solution.

2019/02/13

Entra ASA, one of Norways leading real estate companies publishes an article outlining the setup of the surplus energy building in Brattørkaia, Trondheim, and the meeting of leaders from Engie Lab Crigen, Entra, IOTA Foundation, NTNU, POWEL, Trianel, Trondheim municipality and TrønderEnergi to explore new energy solutions and business models around IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.

2018/01/19

The Municipality of Bærum publishes a presentation of Applied Autonomy, naming IOTA their partner in an autonomous mobility testbed in Kongsberg, Norway.

2017/2018

The Trondheim municipality joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Worldwide

NGO

2020/02/19

BOSCH announces the winners of the Trusted IoT Alliance hackathon for its "IoT Smart Bulding Challenge", for which IOTA is listed as principle partner in all categories, at the "BOSCH Connected World" event.

2020/01/14

BOSCH hosts a hackathon and workshop for the Trusted IoT Alliance that lists the IOTA Foundation as principle partner in all categories of its "IoT Smart Bulding Challenge".

2019/10/07

The Industrial Internet Consortium announces the participants of its "IoT Smart Bulding Challenge", co-organized with the Trusted IoT Alliance, including IOTA.

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which the Trusted IoT Alliance is also a member.

2017/07/15

IOTA is founding member of the Trusted IoT Alliance

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2019/12/12

Members of the University of Sydney and University of Beijing. assert the IOTA token outlier qualities as one of three tokens, amomng the 22 most established cryptocurrencies in their paper "A new method for similarity and anomaly detection in cryptocurrency markets"

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Energy

2017/2018

Tukio joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2019/04/22

The TÜV Rheinland tweets about the recent interview with Alexander Renz (IF).

2019/03/28

Alexander Renz (IF) is interviewed by the TÜV Rheinland.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2020/02/13

A patent application filed by Tzero Group Inc was published, describing a “Splittable Security Token”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

IT

2020/02/08

Lidbot shares images of the first batch of IOTA-enabled smart bins, installed on Sentosa Island in Singapore.

2020/01/26

Lidbot reports that it sold out the first batch of their IOTA-enabled sensors.

2019/11/04

Lidbot publishes an article explaining details of its IOTA-based product "Robin" and announces that 2,000 sales representattives of a US-based telecommunications company will start selling Lidbot as one of its IoT solutions.

2019/10/09

Lidbot, Omoku and BIOTA e.V. collaborate on an IOTA-driven recycling solution called "Deposy".

2019/08/12

Lidbot announces that it has been selected as finalist for the "Smart Logistics and Industry IoT Award" of Osram.

2019/07/15

Hamoun Karami, CEO of TwoIoT (Lidbot) shares images of a production version of a Lidbot V1 and an AutoDesk design of its casing.

2019/07/09

Hamoun Karami of Lidbot notes that they "just spoke with head of Europe from Fujitsu - they want to talk about Lidbot & IF collaboration".

2019/07/02

Lidbot notes on Reddit that "In the future we will work closely with NVIDIA in developing an autonomous waste fleet".

2019/07/02

Lidbot (TwoIoT) publishes a video, mentioning that "40+ clients are waiting for sensor completion", as well as further proof-of-concepts with American Airlines, Festo and Alba Suez.

2019/06/24

Lidbot-founder Hamoun Karami reports that the "Tapipei City Hall proof of concept turned into a request for purchase".

2019/05/31

Dominik Schiener (IF) meets Hamoun Karami from Two IoT (Lidbot) at InnoVEX2019.

2019/05/20

Two IoT presents its IOTA-powered Lidbot at Collision Conference.

2019/04/30

Two IoT publishes an article summing up the previous two months of their IOTA-based Lidbot, as well as their next steps.

2019/04/25

Hamoun Karami, founder of Two IoT is invited as speaker to the DLT101 Summit in Taipei, presenting their IOTA-based "Lidbot".

2019/04/18

TWO (Lidbot) meets with the Director-General of the Taoyuan City Government to discuss working with them on smarter waste management.

2019/03/18

TWO publishes an article detailing how Lidbot uses data to create value.

2019/02/11

TWO publishes an article detailing its IOTA-based case study on a "Waste Management System" with the Taipei City Hall.

2019/01/20

TWO deploys its Lidbot to the offices of Taiwan Tech Arena.

2018/10/28

TWO announces their succesful deployment of 18 bin sensors in the Taipei City Hall that register fill level on the IOTA tangle. TWO mentions that the Taipei Government is interested in deploying further 300 sensors in the building. TWO expects to deploy 6,000 sensors until the end of 2019 in Taipei and are looking to expand to Hong Kong as well as western cities.

2018/10/04

Hamoun Karami, founder of TwoIOT, reveals in a comment on the IOTA discord that TwoIoT is officially installing sensors posting their data to the IOTA tangle on the following weekend.

2018/05/18

TwoIoT announces to use the tangle for its waste management solutions and a first real world integration in Taipei

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/07/31

T-Labs, the innovation lab of Deutsche Telekom, published a proof-of-concept called "xRide", a decentralized open mobility system based on identity and payment solutions by IOTA, ETH, Riddle & Code, UbirchGmbH (and others). According to John Calian, Senior Vice President and Head of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs, the blockchain scooter is going to be launched as a pilot on September 11th, 2019 in Bonn.

2019/05/11

An industry news portal reports that Ubirch GmbH developed a solution in collaboration with WZL/RWTH (IILA) and Deutsche Telekom Labs to save sensor data to the IOTA ledger.

2019/04/22

Ubirch GmbH presents a "blockchain demonstrator" writing signed production data to the IOTA ledger at the Hannover Messe 2019.

2019/01/09

Ubirch GmbH publishes an IOTA GitHub repository.

2018/04/28

Ubirch GmbH showcases an IOTA prototype at the Hannover fair

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

IT

2017/02/20

Canonical officially announces its collaboration with the IOTA foundation

$n.a.

n.a.

Russia

Academia

2019/09/19

Members of the Ural Federal University, Ufa State Aviation Technical University and Technical University Vienna publish a paper "On Application of Distributed Ledgers for Internet of Things in Russia", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Japan

Electronics

2019/09/11

A patent application filed by Uhuru Corp is published, describing “Device managment system, device managment method. Information processing device, device, and program“, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Saudi Arabia

Academia

2018/11/01

Members of the Newcastle University and Umm al-Qura University publish a paper titled "Toward a Decentralized, Trust-less Marketplace for Brokered IoT Data Trading using Blockchain", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Healthcare

2019/02/18

The University Hospital of Cologne holds a presentation on use cases for IOTA in cardiac surgery and intensive care.

$2.83 bn

22,000

USA

IT

2019/10/28

Dell Technologies, the Linux Foundation and the IOTA Foundation team up for "Project Alvarium", the development of a codebase seeded by Dell Technologies, known as a "Data Confidence Fabric (DCF)" representing collaborative open source development on distributed technologies, digital trust, data privacy and confidence in data. In its official press release, the Linux Foundation lists ARM, IBM, MobiledgeX, OSIsoft and Unisys as further project partners.

$n.a.

n.a.

Worldwide

NGO

2018/12/21

The IOTA Foundation publishes a video of the talks at the Humanitarian Blockchain Summit at Fordham University.

2018/12/08

Representtatives from UNOPS join IOTA and Consensys at the 2nd Humanitarian Blockchain Summit by the Fordham University.

2018/06/12

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, the leading blockchain expert of UNOPS answers questions about the collaboration with IOTA in a Q&A;

2018/05/22

IOTA and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) signs a memorandum of understanding for future collaboration

2017/11/13

Julie Maupin (IF) represents IOTA in the Press Conference of the United Nations Climate Change Hack4Climate Event.

$n.a.

n.a.

Colombia

Academia

2017/2018

The Natinal University of Colombia joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Peru

Academia

2018/07/04

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos includes IOTA in their Distributed Ledger curriculum

2018/03/24

The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos holds their first meetup to explore the application of IOTA and LoRa.

$n.a.

n.a.

Ireland

Academia

2019/11/28

Robert Shorten (IF), Andrew Cullen (IF) and members of the University College Dublin publish a paper titled "Ad-hocChain: Cooperative Sharing and Trading Infrastructure for Electric Vehicle Charging Networks" referencing IOTA.

2019/10/11

Members of the University College Dublin publish a paper on "A Distributed Ledger Based Cyber-Physical Architecture to Enforce Social Contracts: Paper Cup Recycling", based on IOTA.

2019/05/16

Prof. R. Shorten (IF), et al, from the University College Dublin in collaboration with IBM Research release their research on "Spatial Positioning Token (SPToken) for Smart Mobility, a permissioned distributed ledger based on the IOTA Tangle".

2019/04/22

Researchers from Huawei Research Center, Trinity College Dublin and IOTA Foundation publish a reaserch paper "Learning to Cache With No Regrets", introducing a novel caching analysis.

2019/03/21

Prof. Robert Shorten (et al) from the University College Dublin and member of the IOTA Research Council publish their research results of "IOTA parasite chain attacks" and propose improvements to the IOTA tip selection algorithm.

2019/03/21

Prof. Robert Shorten (et al) from the University College Dublin and member of the IOTA Research Council publish a research paper on "varying transaction delays [...] based on extensive simulations [...] to describe IOTAs behaviour and validation" in light of viability for smart mobility and smart city applications.

2018/10/18

Prof. Robert Shorten (IF) of the University College Dublin (et al) and a member of the Northeastern University publishes a paper on "Distributed Ledger Technology for Smart Cities, the Sharing Economy, and Social Compliance".

2018/07/02

Researchers from University College Dublin and Northeastern University (Boston) publish their findings on Distributed Ledger Technology, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Social Compliance based on IOTA

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Great Britain

Academia

2020/01/28

Members of the University College London published a paper titled “Analysing Social Media Forums to Discover Potential Causes of Phasic Shifts in Cryptocurrency Price Series”, referencing IOTA

2019/02/08

Navin Ramachandran (IF) et al of the University College London, as well as members of Pact Care BV published a paper titled “Designing a distributed ledger technology system for interoperable and GDPR-compliant health data exchange - a use case in blood glucose data" for peer review to the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

2019/06/12

A peer reviewed study about "Designing a DLT System for Interoperable and GDPR–Compliant Health Data Exchange: A Use Case in Blood Glucose Data" by PACT Care and Navin Ramachandran (IF) of the University College London is published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

2018/07/25

Navin Ramachandrana (IF), Immanuel Baskaran and James Brogan from University College London publish a scientific article about their case study of Authenticating Health Activity Data Using Distributed Ledger Technologies, describing their PoC of using IOTA MAM channels for granting and revoking on-demand access to personal medical data.

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Netherlands

Academia

2018/12/09

Members of the University College Twente publish their paper about "How to break IOTA heart by replaying?".

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Denmark

Academia

2019/12/09

Members of the University of Brest, Shanghai Maritime University and Aalborg University publish a paper titled "Microgrid Transactive Energy Systems: A Perspective on Design, Technologies, and Energy Markets", referencing IOTA.

2019/03/06

Researchers from the University of Aalborg publish a scientific research paper on "Communication Aspects of the Integration of Wireless IoT Devices with Distributed Ledger Technology".

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Canada

Academia

2019/03/11

Members of the University of Alberta publish a paper on "Towards A Scalable DAG-based Distributed Ledger for Smart Communities", analyzing IOTA.

2019

A student of the University of Alberta publishes his master thesis "Performance Analysis and Design of an IoT-Friendly DAG-based Distributed Ledger System", analysing IOTA.

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Germany

Academia

2018/02/19

Prof. Jens Strüker from the University Fresenius mentions IOTA as one of three interesting technologies in his presentation "Application of blockchain in the energy sector"

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New Zealand

Academia

2019/07/05

Members of the University of Auckland publish an academic paper on the topic of “Leveraging Blockchain Technology in a BIM Workflow”, referencing IOTA.

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Portugal

Academia

2019/07/10

Members of the University of Aveiro publish a paper on "Enabling Proof-of-Work for Low-End IoT Devices", referencing IOTA

2018/09/01

Three researchers from University of Aveiro, Portugal publish an academic research paper, determining "IOTA Feasibility and Perspectives for Enabling Vehicular Applications"

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Greece

Academia

2019/09/18

Members of the University of Patras and University of Athens publish a paper titled "A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture", based on IOTA.

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Spain

Academia

2019/03/19

Members of the University of Barcelona publish an academic paper on "Digital Assets Horizon in Smart Cities: Urban Congestion Management by IoT, Blockchain/DLT and Human Reinforcement", citing IOTA.

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Portugal

Academia

2019/10/16

Members of the University of Vale, Instituto Federal Catarinense, University of Salamanca, University of Beira Interior and Universidade Lusófona published a paper titled “PRICHAIN: A Partially Decentralized Implementation of UbiPri Middleware Using Blockchain”, referencing IOTA.

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China

Academia

2020/01/03

Members of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xidian University, Chongqing University, Shenzhen University published a paper titled "Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/27

Researchers of the Institute of Network Technology at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, University of Sheffield, University of Paris and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications release an academic research paper analysing "Performance and Security of Direct Acyclic Graph based Blockchains for Internet of Things", including IOTA, Hashgraph and Byteball.

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Italy

Academia

2018/10/18

Members of the University of Bolzano publish a paper in which they compare several DLTs, including IOTA.

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n.a.

Italy

Academia

2020/01/22

Members of the University of Bologna published a paper titled "Are Distributed Ledger Technologies Ready for Smart Transportation Systems?", referencing IOTA and providing "experimental results of a real testbed"

2019/10/08

Members of the University of Bologna publish a paper titled "A Distributed Ledger Based Infrastructure for Smart Transportation System and Social Good", basing their work on IOTA.

2018/08/20

DHL mentioned IOTA in its 2018/2019 “Logistics Trend Radar”, noting “A key application area in future will be machine-to-machine payments (e.g., IoTA)”

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USA

Academia

2019/03/31

Members of the University of Boston, the MIT Media Lab and Harvard University publish a paper on "Cryptanalysis of Curl-P and Other Attacks on the IOTA Cryptocurrency".

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France

Academia

2019/12/09

Members of the University of Brest, Shanghai Maritime University and Aalborg University publish a paper titled "Microgrid Transactive Energy Systems: A Perspective on Design, Technologies, and Energy Markets", referencing IOTA.

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Great Britain

Academia

2019/03/25

Researchers of the University of Bristol publish their research on "A Block-Free Distributed Ledger for P2P Energy Trading: Case with IOTA?".

2018/11/04

Members of the University of Bristol publish a paper on "Distributed Ledger Technology and the Internet of Things: A Feasibility Study".

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Canada

Academia

2019/10/28

A member of the University of British Columbia publishes a MaS thesis titled "Decentralized connectivity-aware computational resource sharing system in the D2D networks", based on IOTA.

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USA

Academia

2020/01/07

Members of the Fudan University and University of California published a paper titled "Effective scaling of blockchain beyond consensus innovations and Moore’s law", referencing IOTA.

2019/02/27

Members of the University of California publishes a paper on "Proof-of-Authentication for Private Distributed Ledger", basing their "NDN" network partly on IOTA.

2019

A member of the University of California publishes his master thesis "Private Distributed Ledger over Named Data Networking", analysing IOTA.

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which UCB is also a member.

2017/05/29

Berkeley University and IOTA announce their collaboration.

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Portugal

Academia

2019/01/31

A student publishes their master thesis "On the disruptive potential of distributed ledger technologies", evaluating the dairy industry, including Tine SA in regard to IOTA.

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Brazil

Academia

2019/09/03

Members of the University of Catolica-Rio de Janeiro publish a paper on "Secure distributed ledgers to support IoT technologies data" on the basis of IOTA

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China

Academia

2020/01/03

Members of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xidian University, Chongqing University, Shenzhen University published a paper titled "Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/27

Researchers of the Institute of Network Technology at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, University of Sheffield, University of Paris and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications release an academic research paper analysing "Performance and Security of Direct Acyclic Graph based Blockchains for Internet of Things", including IOTA, Hashgraph and Byteball.

2019/05/19

Members of the University of Chongqing, University of Xidian, University of Glasgow, Institute of Telecommunications Portugal and University of North China publish an extensive academic paper on "When Internet of Things Meets Blockchain: Challenges in Distributed Consensus", analyzing the IOTA tangle.

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USA

Academia

2019/03/18

Members of the University of Central Florida publish their analysis of "on Consensus Protocols in Blockchain for IoT Networks" in which they also discuss "how private blockchains and tangle can be a better alternative to public blockchains for IoT networks".

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USA

Academia

2019/11/26

Members of the University of the District of Columbia publish a paper titled "Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Role of Collaboration, Sustainability, and Technology", referencing IOTA..

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UAE

Academia

2020/02/05

Members of the British University in Dubai, Hashemite University and the University of Dubai published a paper titled "Towards building a blockchain framework for IoT", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/13

Two members of the University of Dubai publish their research on IOTA on IEEE, containing and two IoT applications; a smart utility meter and a smart car transaction system connected through LPWAN IoT networks.

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Great Britain

Academia

2019/05/03

A student of the University of Edinburgh publishes his MSc thesis "Blockchain as a Principle; A Case Study to Investigate Berlin’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Around Blockchain And Value-Driven Entrepreneurship", referencing IOTA.

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Pakistan

Academia

2020/01/09

Members of the COMSATS University Islamabad, King Saud University and University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar published a paper titled "Data Sharing System Integrating Access Control Mechanism using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts for IoT Devices", referencing IOTA.

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Great Britain

Academia

2019/05/19

Members of the University of Chongqing, Xidian University, University of Glasgow, Institute of Telecommunications Portugal and University of North China publish an extensive academic paper on "When Internet of Things Meets Blockchain: Challenges in Distributed Consensus", analyzing the IOTA tangle.

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Spain

Academia

2019/06/25

Members of the University of Granada publish a paper "The Tokenization of the eParticipation in Public Governance: An Opportunity to Hack Democracy", referencing IOTA.

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n.a.

France

Academia

2018/10/11

Members of the University of Grenoble and the National Institute for Solar Energy, CEA-INES publish a paper "On the applicability of distributed ledger architectures to peer-to-peer energy trading framework" in which they compare different "blockchain" architectures, including the IOTA Tangle.

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China

Academia

2019/08/14

Members of the University of Hefei, China, publish a paper on "Med-PPPHIS: Blockchain-Based Personal Healthcare Information System for National Physique Monitoring and Scientific Exercise Guiding", referencing IOTA.

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China

Academia

2019/09/25

A member of the University of Hong Kong published a paper titled “Blockchain of Things (BCoT): The Fusion of Blockchain and IoT Technologies”, referencing IOTA.

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USA

Academia

2020/02/03

Members of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and University of Houston published a paper titled "Supporting Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrency Mobile Payment With Smart Devices", referencing IOTA.

2020/01/22

Members of the Texas Tech University, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Auburn University at Montgomery and University of Houston published a paper titled "Nonlinear Blockchain Scalability: a Game-Theoretic Perspective", referencing IOTA.

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Japan

Academia

2019/05/31

Members of the East China Normal University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and University of Hyogo publish a paper on "Preimage Attacks on Reduced Troika with Divide-and-Conquer Methods".

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Great Britain

Academia

2020/01/28

Members of the University of Huddersfiled published a paper titled “Enabling Distributed Intelligence in the Internet of Things with IOTA and Mobile Agents”, referencing IOTA

2019/10/31

Members of the University of Huddersfield publiush a paper titled "Towards Building a Scalable Tangle-Based Distributed Intelligence Approach for the Internet of Things", based upon IOTA.

2019/06/04

A member of the University of Huddersfield publishes a paper "Enabling Distributed Intelligence in the Internet of Things using the IOTA Tangle Architecture".

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Nigeria

Academia

2019/12/17

A memebr of the Obafemi Awolowo University publishes a paper titled "Bitcoin-Altcoin Price Synchronization Hypothesis: Evidence from Recent Data", referencing IOTA.

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USA

Academia

2020/01/21

Members of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hohai University, National institute of Telecommunications (INATEL) and University of Idaho published a paper titled "DAGIoV: A Framework for Vehicle to Vehicle Communication using Directed Acyclic Graph and Game Theory", referencing IOTA.

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Peru

Academia

2020/01/01

Members of the University of Indonesia and Tokyo International University published a paper titled “The requirements of cryptocurrency for money, an Islamic view”, referencing IOTA (and others).

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Russia

Academia

2019/10/08

A member of the University of Innopolis publishes a paper titled "Distributed Computing System on a Smartphones-Based Network", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/17

Members of the University of Innopolis published a paper on "Towards Blockchain-based Multi-Agent Robotic Systems: Analysis, Classification and Applications", citing IOTA as an improvement over traditional blockchains.

2018/05/24

The IOTA case study of electric autonomous vehicles from Innopolis University has been accepted by the IEEE

2018/04/04

Three reasearchers from Innopolis University publish an academic research paper on Arxiv, analysing "M2M Billing for Electric Autonomous Vehicles", citing IOTA

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Germany

Academia

2020/01/21

The "Integrated Communication Systems Lab" of the University of Kaiserslautern mentions IOTA in a presentation about the application of "Blockchain in academic administration"

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USA

Academia

2020/01/20

Members of the University of Kentucky published a paper titled “Scaling Blockchains to Support Electronic Health Records for Hospital Systems”, referencing IOTA (and others).

2019/12/23

Members of the University of Kentucky and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, including Umair Sarfraz (IF) publish a paper titled "Outsourcing IOTA proof‐of‐work to volunteer public devices", based on IOTA.

2018/01/05

Umair Sarfraz (IF) and fellow members of the COMSATS University as well as University of Kentucky publish a paper on "Privacy aware IOTA ledger: Decentralized mixing and unlinkable IOTA transactions".

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Ukraine

Academia

2019/07/24

Members of the University of Kharkiv, Ukraine, publish a paper on "Overview of consensus protocols used in blockchain technologies", referencing IOTA.

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Germany

Academia

2019/10/28

Members of the Humboldt University Berlin and University of Münster publish a paper titled "Personalized mental health: Artificial intelligence technologies for treatment response prediction in anxiety disorders", referencing IOTA.

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Germany

Academia

2019/10/31

Members of the University of Osnabrück publish a report analysing the "Potential of selected DLT's for agricultural food chains on the example of the QS System" for the QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH.

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France

Academia

2019/05/27

Researchers of the Institute of Network Technology at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, University of Sheffield, University of Paris and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications release an academic research paper analysing "Performance and Security of Direct Acyclic Graph based Blockchains for Internet of Things", including IOTA, Hashgraph and Byteball.

2019/02/15

Researchers from the University of Paris-Sorbonne publish an academic paper, proposing strategies to improve the IOTA tangle in terms of resilience to splitting attacks.

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Czech Republic

Academia

2019/06/03

Members of the University of Prague publish a paper "Cryptocurrencies market efficiency ranking: Not so straightforward", including IOTA.

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n.a.

Ireland

Academia

2019/05/19

An update on the grant of "Digital Liquid Democracy: Delegative End-to-end Verifiable E-voting" the University of Lancaster, Cybernetica AS and IOTA are working on is published.

2017/05/02

The University of Lancaster and IOTA collaborate in work on e-Voting based on the IOTA tangle.

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Portugal

Academia

2019/10/16

Members of the University of Vale, Instituto Federal Catarinense, University of Salamanca, University of Beira Interior and Universidade Lusófona published a paper titled “PRICHAIN: A Partially Decentralized Implementation of UbiPri Middleware Using Blockchain”, referencing IOTA.

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Germany

Academia

2019/08/26

Members of the University of Leipzig publish a paper titled "Defining and Delimitating Distributed Ledger Technology: Results of a Structured Literature Analysis", referencing IOTA.

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Peru

Academia

2019/06/12

Students of the University of Lima and the Grande Prairie Regional College present their project IOTA-based aquaponics project "Ayni".

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n.a.

Ireland

Academia

2018/07/06

The University of Limerick participates in the EU funded "Smart Cities and Communities" project of the EU Horizon2020 program

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Ukraine

Academia

2018/09

Members of the University of Lviv and Cherkasy State Technological University publish a paper on "Сryptocurrency and Internet of Things: Problems of Implementation and Realization", analysing IOTA.

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Malaysia

Academia

2017/12/06

Three researchers of the University of Malaya publish an academic research paper on IEEE, analysing "Decentralized Consensus for Edge-Centric Internet of Things: A Review, Taxonomy, and Research Issues", citing IOTA

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Great Britain

Academia

2019/08/06

A member of the University of Manchester publishes a paper on "On the Performance of Distributed Ledgers for Internet of Things", analyzing the throughput of several popular blockchains and referring to IOTA as an alternative.

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Malaysia

Academia

2020/02/11

The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Technologies and STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, the RWTH Aachen University, AKITA Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corporation, TMForum, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and IoTIFY launch the Tangle EE Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.

2019/09/19

Together with its partners Neoception, eCl@ss, University of Magdeburg, Helmuth Schmidt University and WeWash, IOTA launches the "Industrial Data Marketplace" to "enable increased Interconnectivity between Humans, Machines, and Machine Readable Contracts".

2019/02/21

The University of Magdeburg is looking for an assistant or a student willing to base their thesis on "Industry use cases of IOTA".

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Tunesia

Academia

2019/07/26

Members of the University of Mahdia and University of Sfax, both Tunesia, publish a paper on "Volatility dynamics of crypto-currencies’ returns: Evidence from asymmetric and long memory GARCH models", referencing IOTA.

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Slovenia

Academia

2019/06/01

A member of the University of Maribor publishes his thesis on "technology of Certification of Blocks and the Potential use in Constructing Contracts".

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Italy

Academia

2018/06/08

Members of the University of Messina published a paper titled “Blockchain and IoT Integration: A Systematic Survey”, referencing IOTA

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Academia

2020/01/16

Members of the University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, published a paper titled “Cryptocurrencies: Perspectives of a digital-economic phenomenon”, referencing IOTA (and others)

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n.a.

Norway

Academia

2017/2018

The University of Oslo joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

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n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2019/10/04

Members of the University of Oxford and the Sapienza University of Rome publish a paper titled "Fairness and Efficiency in DAG-based Cryptocurrencies", citing IOTA.

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Australia

Academia

2019/12/23

Members of the CSIRO, University of New South Wales and Queensland University of Technology published a paper titled "Analysis of Data Management in Blockchain-Based Systems: From Architecture to Governance", referencing IOTA.

2019/09/25

Members of CSIRO, the University of New South Wales, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre publishes a paper titled "Blockchain Technologies for IoT", referencing IOTA.

2019/08/17

Members of the University of New South Wales Australia, DATA61 CSIRO and Tata Consulting, publish a paper on "LSB: A Lightweight Scalable Blockchain for IoT security and anonymity", rferencing IOTA.

2019/06/10

Members of the University of New South Wales publish a paper titled "A Decentralized IoT Data Marketplace", referencing IOTA.

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Great Britain

Academia

2019/05/16

Members of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and University of Plymouth publish a paper on "Distributed Ledger Technology for Trust Management Optimisation in M2M", referencing IOTA.

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USA

Academia

2019/02/19

Members of the North China Electric Power University, Fayetteville State University, Temple University and Qatar University publish a paper on "When Energy Trading Meets Blockchain in Electrical Power System: The State of the Art", referencing IOTA.

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Italy

Academia

2019/12/13

Members of the University of Pisa published a paper titled "A Blockchain Tokenizer for Industrial IOT Trustless Applications", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/22

Members of the University of Pisa publish a paper on "Virtual private ledgers: embedding private distributed ledgers over a public blockchain by cryptography", showing how private ledgers can be embedded in existing public ledgers, including IOTA.

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Greece

Academia

2019/10/07

Members of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) and the University of Patras publish a paper titled "Using Blockchains to Enable Big Data Analysis of Private Information", referencing IOTA.

2019/09/18

Members of the University of Patras and University of Athens publish a paper titled "A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture", based on IOTA.

2018/10/29

Members of the University of Patras publish a paper on "An IOTA Based Distributed Sensor Node System".

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Great Britain

Academia

2019/07/17

Members of the Széchenyi István University, University of Reading and University of Vienna published a paper on “Leveraging the Internet of Things and Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management”, referencing IOTA

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Germany

Academia

2018/09/20

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Notholt from the faculty of technology and distributed ledger technologies lab of the Reutlingen University gives a talk about "IOTA versus blockchain on an example from the energy sector" at the Bayern Innovativ event

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Brazil

Academia

2020/01/22

Members of the Texas Tech University, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Auburn University at Montgomery and University of Houston published a paper titled "Nonlinear Blockchain Scalability: a Game-Theoretic Perspective", referencing IOTA.

2019/09/25

Members of CSIRO, the University of New South Wales, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre publishes a paper titled "Blockchain Technologies for IoT", referencing IOTA.

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Germany

Academia

2019/06/01

Members of the University Rostock, University Stockholm publish a paper "Challenges and Research Directions for Blockchains in the Internet of Things".

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n.a.

Italy

Academia

2019/10/04

Members of the University of Oxford and the Sapienza University of Rome publish a paper titled "Fairness and Efficiency in DAG-based Cryptocurrencies", citing IOTA.

2019/05/23

Michele Nati (IF) holds a seminar on IOTA at the University of Rome.

2019/04/08

Researchers of the University of Rome publish an academic research paper on "M2M Learning Environment for Electric Applications", analysing IOTA in an electric context where different energy providers and electric autonomous vehicles can interact.

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n.a.

Spain

Academia

2019/10/16

Members of the University of Vale, Instituto Federal Catarinense, University of Salamanca, University of Beira Interior and Universidade Lusófona published a paper titled “PRICHAIN: A Partially Decentralized Implementation of UbiPri Middleware Using Blockchain”, referencing IOTA.

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n.a.

Brazil

Academia

2019/06/25

A member of the University of Santa Catarina publishes their work on "Collecting metal coins and compensating owners with cryptocurrency" to counter "small change shortages" and demonstrates it with a prototype of an automated kiosk-system using IOTA.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Academia

2020/01/30

Members of the University of Siegen, University of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina Telecom (BH Telecom) published a paper titled "Directed Acyclic Graph as Tangle: an IoT Alternative to Blockchains", referencing IOTA.

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China

Academia

2020/01/15

Members of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, CSIRO, Run Technologies Company, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Cyberspace Data Analysis and Applications and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security published a paper titled “Distributed Ledger Technology for eHealth Identity Privacy: State of The Art and Future Perspective”, referencing IOTA (and others)

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n.a.

Algeria

Academia

2019/06/21

Members of the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene publish an academic paper on "Efficient Distributed Authentication and Access Control System Management for Internet of Things Using Blockchain", citing IOTA.

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n.a.

Tunesia

Academia

2019/07/26

Members of the University of Mahdia and University of Sfax, both Tunesia, publish a paper on "Volatility dynamics of crypto-currencies’ returns: Evidence from asymmetric and long memory GARCH models", referencing IOTA.

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n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2020/02/13

Members of the Northern Arizona University and University of Sheffield published a paper titled "Almost-Zero Logic Implementation of Troika Hash Function on Reconfigurable Devices", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/27

Researchers of the Institute of Network Technology at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, University of Sheffield, University of Paris and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications release an academic research paper analysing "Performance and Security of Direct Acyclic Graph based Blockchains for Internet of Things", including IOTA, Hashgraph and Byteball.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2020/01/03

Members of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xidian University, Chongqing University, Shenzhen University published a paper titled "Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains", referencing IOTA.

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n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/11/20

The University of Southern California hosts an event "Intro to Pandas for IoT, I3, IOTA, and Data Science".

2019/11/10

Members of the University of Southern California publish a paper titled "Enhancing Support for Machine Learning and Edge Computing on an IoT Data Marketplace", referencing IOTA.

2019/11/06

The University of Southern California hosts an event "Intro to APIs for IoT, I3, IOTA, and Data Science".

2019/10/30

The University of Southern California hosts an event "Learn how to store data from I3 on the IOTA Tangle".

2019/10/16

The University of Southern California hosts an event " Intro to Python for IoT, I3, IOTA, and Data Science".

2019/09/21

Members of the University of Southern California and Binghamton University publish a paper titled "BlendSM-DDM: BLockchain-ENabled Secure Microservices for Decentralized Data Marketplaces", referencing IOTA.

2019/09/18

The University of Southern California hosts an event, introducing "IoT, I3, and IOTA".

2019/07

A sensor of the University of Southern California (USC Viterbi) is spotted on the IOTA Data Marketplace.

2019/05/16

The University of Southern California (USC Viterbi) publishes an academic paper on "A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Distributed Publish-Subscribe System with Immutable Blockchain-based Persistence" using MQTT broker and a modular choice of “pluggable” blockchain platforms including Ethereum, IOTA, HyperLedger Fabric and Tendermint.

2019/05/14

Members of the USC Viterbi publish a paper on "SDPP: Streaming Data Payment Protocol for Data Economy", describing a proof-of-concept implementation using the TCP protocol for data communication and IOTA as both cryptocurrency and a distributed ledger.

2019/04/28

The University of Southern California (USC Viterbi) publishes a new protocol dubbed "PayFlow", enabling micropayments for end-to-end QoS reservations in software-defined networks, based on IOTA.

2019/02/28

Members of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering (UCLA) publish a paper on "MOTIVE: Micropayments for trusted vehicular services" using IOTA for payments, including accompanying GitHub repositories and a video of their proof of concept.

2019/02/18

The University of Southern California (USC Viterbi) holds a blockchain hackathon around Hyperledger, Ethereum and IOTA.

2018/09/20

Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Director of USC Viterbi Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things, announces the open source release of "DDM", an experimental prototype implementation of a decentralized IoT data marketplace based on IOTA

2018/06/12

Members of the USC Viterbi publish a paper "Trinity: A Distributed Publish/Subscribe Broker with Blockchain-based Immutability", announcing to integrate their framework using IOTA.

2018/05/23

Members of the USC Viterbi publish an academic paper on "Streaming Data Payment Protocol (SDPP) for the Internet of Things", presenting an implementation of SDPP using TCP for data transport and IOTA as both cryptocurrency and a distributed ledger.

2018/05/08

Members of the USC Viterbi publish a paper "Blockchain for the IoT: Opportunities and Challenges", citing IOTA as a new model reducing cost while providing partition tolerance.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Academia

2018/06/14

Wilfried Pimenta (IF) is invited as speaker by the University of South-Eastern Norway for a talk on "Enabling the true Internet-of-Things through the Machine Economy"

$n.a.

n.a.

Croatia

Academia

2019/11/29

A member of the University of Split publishes his thesis titled "The Third Generation of Cryptocurrencies", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/05/16

The IOTA Foundation, in collaboration with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Infosys, Oracle, Zita and the Stanford University developed two telecommunications infrastructure marketplaces (based on IOTA MAM) as a TMForum Catalyst project.

$n.a.

n.a.

Sweden

Academia

2019/06/01

Members of the University Rostock, University Stockholm publish a paper "Challenges and Research Directions for Blockchains in the Internet of Things".

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Academia

2018/04/04

A reasearcher from the University of Strasbourg publish an academic research paper, analysing "The Stability and the Security of the Tangle"

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2020/01/30

Members of the University of Siegen, University of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina Telecom (BH Telecom) published a paper titled "Directed Acyclic Graph as Tangle: an IoT Alternative to Blockchains", referencing IOTA.

2019/03

Researchers from University of Siegen publish their research results on "Distributed Ledger Technologies for M2M Communications", analysing IOTA and Hedera Hasgraph in collaboration with Carmeq GmbH in scope of its "Mobility 2030" project.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Academia

2016/03/07

The University of Surrey and the IOTA foundation collaborate on research into digital democracy.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2019/12/12

Members of the University of Sydney and University of Beijing. assert the IOTA token outlier qualities as one of three tokens, amomng the 22 most established cryptocurrencies in their paper "A new method for similarity and anomaly detection in cryptocurrency markets"

2019/08/29

Members of the University of Sydney publish a paper on "DAGBENCH: A Performance Evaluation Framework for DAG Distributed Ledgers", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Estonia

Academia

2018/06/02

A member of the University of Tartu publishes an academic paper comparing IOTA and Hashgraph.

$n.a.

n.a.

Australia

Academia

2019/09/06

Members of the University of Technology Sydney, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing, Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, China publish a paper on "Capacity of blockchain based Internet-of-Things: Testbed and analysis", referencing IOTA.

2019/02/11

Members of the Polish Naval Academy, Institute of Naval Weapons and Computer Science and the University of Technology Sydney, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, publish an academic paper on "Blockchain-based renewable energy exchange management system" while “comparing Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric and IOTA” on IEEE.

$n.a.

n.a.

Estonia

Academia

2018/06/07

A member of Tallinn University publishes her bachelor thesis titled "Possibilities for cryptocurrencies in the international monetary system", referencing IOTA.

2016/03/17

IOTA and the Tallinn University collaborate on researching digital democracy.

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Academia

2019/12/04

Members of the University of Toulouse published a paper titled "Blockchain-Based Multi-UAV Surveillance System", referencing IOTA.

2019/07/11

Members of the University of Toulouse and the Macquarie University publish a paper on "When Air Traffic Management Meets Blockchain Technology: a Blockchain-based concept for securing the sharing of Flight Data", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2020/02/03

Members of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and University of Houston published a paper titled "Supporting Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrency Mobile Payment With Smart Devices", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2020/02/18

Members of the University of Texas and Qatar University, who also happens to be the director of the Cisco Regional Academy published a paper titled "Energy Efficiency of Medical Devices and Healthcare Applications", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Colombia

Academia

2019/10/16

Members of the University of Vale, Instituto Federal Catarinense, University of Salamanca, University of Beira Interior and Universidade Lusófona published a paper titled “PRICHAIN: A Partially Decentralized Implementation of UbiPri Middleware Using Blockchain”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2018/09/25

Prof. Dr. Winkelmann presents on the topic of changes in fundamental data architectures and its effects on businesses, referring to IOTA in his presentation

$n.a.

n.a.

France

Academia

2019/07/15

Members of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique of the University Paris-Saclay and SAMOVAR Telecom SudParis publish a paper on "An IoT-Blockchain Architecture Based on Hyperledger Framework for Healthcare Monitoring Application", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Academia

2019/04/28

Members of the University of Xi'An publish a paper on "A Cross-Chain Solution to Integrating Multiple Blockchains for IoT Data Management", using IOTA and Hyperledger.

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Academia

2020/01/08

A student of the University of Zurich published his master thesis, titled "Design and Implementation of an Intent-based Blockchain Selection Framework", referencing IOTA.

2019/02/17

A member of the University of Zürich publishes his MaS thesis titled "Design and Development of a Blockchain Interoperability API", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

India

Academia

2018/12/30

Members of the University Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College and Fordham University publish a paper on "A Review on Crypto-Currency Transactions Using IOTA ".

$n.a.

n.a.

Malaysia

Academia

2019/09/24

Members of the University of Malaya and University Tunku Abdul Rahman publish a paper titled "Structural Change Analysis of Active Cryptocurrency Market", referencing IOTA

$n.a.

n.a.

Russia

Academia

2019/09/19

Members of the Ural Federal University, Ufa State Aviation Technical University and Technical University Vienna publish a paper "On Application of Distributed Ledgers for Internet of Things in Russia", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2020/02/07

Members of the Utah State University published a paper titled "Comovement in the Cryptocurrency Market", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Academia

2019/08/17

Members of the Vanderbilt University publish a paper on "Blockchain as a Decentralized Mechanism for Financial Inclusion and Economic Mobility", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

200+

USA

Finance

2019/07/22

MV Index Solutions (Van Eck), a US-based investment management firm, lists IOTA with stock/indices ticker symbols for ISIN, FIGI, WKN, Reuters, Bloomberg, Stock Exchange DOList, german and swiss ticker symbols.

$18.9 bn

18,744

Germany

Energy

2018/06/05

A representative from Vattenfall presents the Odyssey Challange at the foruth Dutch IOTA Meetup.

2018/06/05

Vattenfall invites the Accessec CTO to talk about IOTA in Berlin

2017/09/05

Dominik Schiener represents IOTA at a Vattenfall expert symposium for blockchain in the energy sector

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2019/07/09

Accessec presented its IOTA CarWallet at the 5th VDI Conference on Cyber Security for Vehicles.

2018/11/27

Sebastian Rohr, CTO of Accessec gives a lecture about the application of IOTA in different industries at the "International VDI Workshop on 3rd Gen Blockchain Technologies"

2018/05/16

The Accessec CTO is invited by the VDI Wissensforum to present IOTA for industrial IT security and IT security for vehicles

$n.a.

~n.a.

Germany

IT

2019

Ventum Partners GmbH offers their expertise as IOTA integrator.

$n.a.

~n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2019/06/27

The german Union of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie) shares an image of Anne Smith [IF] presenting on the "importance and relevance of digital payments for Mobility-As-A-Service (MaaS) and ConnectedCar solutions".

2019/05/27

Anne Smith (IF) is invited by the Verband der Automobilindustrie to give a presentation.

2019/05/10

Anne Smith (IF) and Holger Köther (IF) are invited by the Verband der Automobilindustrie to hold a workshop.

2018/11/16

The VDA invites Alisa Maas (IF) to present on "IOTA for Mobility and Automotive" at the New Mobility World Digitaltage 2019

$27.79 bn

147,000

France

Infrastructure

2019/05/27

Ledger reports that it will equip Veolia's water sensors (throug its subsidiary Birdz) with Ledger’s specialized microchip (a certified EAL5+ Secure Element) to sign and encrypt all collected data before it is sent to the IOTA tangle.

2019/02/25

The IOTA Foundation and its partners Groupe Renault, Engie Lab Crigen, Birdz (Veolia), Sopra Steria, Tech Mahindra, Future State CoFoundery, the City of Austin and Norske Helsehus announce its Smart City Hackathon.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2019/08/22

A patent application filed by Verimatrix GmbH is published, describing “Systems and methods for decentralized certificate hierarchy using a distributed ledger to determine a level of trust”, referencing IOTA.

2019/02/14

A patent application filed by Verimatrix GmbH is published, describing “Systems and methods for rights control of network-connected or iot devices using information stored in a distributed ledger”, referencing IOTA.

$324 m

~800

Germany

IT

2018/11/05

Martin Bohl, expert for enery infrastructure, publishes an article "IOTA: the future of IoT and blockchain that can change our society".

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2020/02/15

The Verband der Gründer und Selbstständigen Deutschland e.V., a german assiciation representing freelancers and self-employment, published an article about energy production, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

Infrastructure

2019/08/08

VX Company and Vialis are building intelligent traffic lights, granting approaching heavy duty trucks the right of way so they don't have to break and stop, thus saving ~1 liter of fuel, resulting in less emissions emmitted to the environment.

2018/07/25

Vialis develops a mobility PoC based on IOTA in cooperation with VXCompany

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Mobility

2018/07/09

Vispiron Engineering is looking for someone interested in writing their thesis on the topic of fleet management while reseraching how IOTA can benefit their business models and determine how DLT can be integrated in hardware used by vehicles of Vispiron customers.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Finance

2018/07/09

Vito Ventures co-hosts the Blockchained Mobility Hackathon

$64.5 bn

111,536

Germany

Communication

2019/05/16

The IOTA Foundation, in collaboration with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Infosys, Oracle, Zita and the Stanford University developed two telecommunications infrastructure marketplaces (based on IOTA MAM) as a TMForum Catalyst project.

2019/05/15

Dominik Schiener (IF) is invited to a panel discussion in the "AI and Data Strategy track" together with the Vice President of Watson AI of IBM and the Product Lead of Vodafone India at the TMForum, a non-profit, global industry association representing over 850 member companies comprised of communications service providers at its Digital Transformation World event.

2019/04/16

Vodafone published an extensive dossier on "Blockchain, the basis for secure trade and legal transactions" on its website, referring to IOTA as "other interesting blockchain currencies".

2018/06/22

Ralf Rottmann (IF) meets with Vodafone (no indication in what capacity, wether for IOTA or his own company)

2018/05/16

The CTO of DXC is discussing IOTA with representatives of Vodafone and the CTO of General Electric at the WeAreDevelopers conference in Vienna

$271.01 bn

626,715

Germany

Mobility

2019/06/10

Nicolai Bartkowiak and Yannik Zuehlke from Volkswagen attended the Corporate Day of the IOTA Summer Summit.

2018/08/08

Volkswagen publishes an article in which it describes their ongoing work and use cases for IOTA and other blockchains

2018/07/20

Volkswagen provides an update on their progress working with IOTA (and Ethereum)

2018/07/02

Volkswagen engineers explain their vision of autonomous vehicles acting as autonomous agents and how they see an integration with IOTA as means of payment

2018/07/02

A second member of Volkswagen AG, Dr. Klaus Schaaf, joins the IOTA foundation

2018/06/29

Benjamin Sinram, the Volkswagen Head of Blockchain Development reconfirms in a talk that VW will launch its Digital CarPass product, relying on the IOTA protocol, in early 2019

2018/06/12

Volkswagen announces that it will roll out a first product involving IOTA in early 2019 in a Cebit panel discussion

2018/06/11

Volkswagen presents a proof of concept for vehicle over-the-air updates as well as a showcase of electric vehicles earning and paying for services as autonomous agents

2018/02/21

Johann Jungwirth, Chief Digital Officer at Volkswagen AG announces a cooperation between IOTA and VW at the Bosch Connected World Conference

$1.91 bn

n.a.

Germany

Finance

2017/12/17

Harm van den Brink (IF) reveils in a talk the joint development of a digital twin (Carpass) application together with BigchainDB, Volkswagen and Innogy (Note: IOTA discontinued working with Innogy)

2017/08/28

Dominik Schiener presents IOTA at Volkswagen Financial Services

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

IT

2019/08/08

VX Company and Vialis are building intelligent traffic lights, granting approaching heavy duty trucks the right of way, so trucks don't have to break and stop, saving ~1 liter of fuel, resulting in less emissions to the community.

2019/06/20

Odyssey tweets that one of the winning teams from VXCompany is now working with the Dutch Kadaster (land registry) on a "digital bulding dossier".

2019/04/02

A team from VX Company wins a track of the Odyssey Hackathon with their IOTA-based identity solution.

2019/04/02

VX Company publishes a first article of an upcoming series about the challenges of Digital Identity and details its IOTA-based approach.

2019/01/10

Jelle Millenaar from VX Company showcases their IOTA-based identity PoC at the Dutch IOTA meetup.

2018/08/10

VX Company publishes an article about a solution for verifiable claims for digital identities based on merkle trees, supported by IOTA

2018/07/25

VX Company is interviewed about IOTA by the dutch television (broadcasted in september)

$5.85 bn

13,000

Germany

Other

2018/03/19

The CEO of Fujitsu Central Europe, Dr. Rolf Werner, presents IOTA solutions to Wacker Chemie AG

$n.a.

n.a.

Spain

Other

2018/11/19

Wave App is among the winners of the Alastria Open Call hackathon with its IOTA PoC.

$n.a.

n.a.

Singapore

IT

2020/01/27

Websyn Infotech PTE Ltd, a Singapore-based software solutions company, is looking for a Java Developer to work with one of their Japanese customers on an #IOTA Tangle project

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Other

2019/09/19

Together with its partners Neoception, eCl@ss, University of Magdeburg, Helmuth Schmidt University and WeWash, IOTA launches the "Industrial Data Marketplace" to "enable increased Interconnectivity between Humans, Machines, and Machine Readable Contracts".

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Finance

2019/08/06

A patent application filed by Winklevoss IP LLC is published, describing a “System, method and program product for modifying a supply of stable value digital asset tokens”, referencing IOTA.

2019/08/06

A patent application filed by Winklevoss IP LLC is published and awarded to it, describing a “System, method and program product for generating and utilizing stable value digital assets”, referencing IOTA.

$1.49 bn

4,989

Germany

Finance

2018/11/15

Axel Puwein, CEE of Wirecard, describes future M2M payment models and states that Wirecard is testing cryptocurrencies "keyword IOTA, for example" in their lab in an interview.

$n.a.

n.a.

Korea

Finance

2019/02/19

A patent application filed by Wise M Global Co. Ltd. is published and awarded to it, describing “Block chain generation method having consensus algorithm by stratified stochastic delegated proof of node and their commission allocation algorithm”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2017/2018

Wondrwall joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Worldwide

NGO

2019/12/03

Pashupati Pandey, Senior Technical Officer at Complicance and Facilitation in the World Customs Organisation (WCO), confirms in an interview that the WCO is evaluating IOTA.

2019/05/23

Jens Munch Lund-Nielsen (IF) presents IOTA at the World Customs Organisation.

$n.a.

n.a.

Worldwide

NGO

2018/11/29

The World Trade Organization recognizes IOTA, its low energy footprint and fee-less nature in their report "Can Blockchain revolutionize international trade?".

2018/10/03

The World Trade Organization mentions IOTA in its analysis of "How digital technologies are transforming global commerce" within its "World Trade Report 2018".

$n.a.

n.a.

Italy

IT

2019/08/20

WSense SRL demonstrates its IOTA-based aquaculture data storage solution at AquaNor 2019.

$n.a.

n.a.

Argentine

IT

2019/09/19

XDK2MAM holds a meetup at the Uruguay Blockchain Summit.

2019/09/06

Daniel De Michele from XDK2MAM meets with representatives from Arnaldo C. Castro SA and hints at joint collaborations on IOTA-based projects.

2019/07/12

The team of XDK2MAM and DanielTrauth of the RWTH University/IILA met and discussed their vision and future collaboration.

2019/07/08

Reiner Schmohl, BOSCH XDK Product Lead, has a barbecue with the Argentinian XDK2MAM.

2019/06/27

XDK2MAM tests the first transactions publishes by the BOSCH XDK110 sensor using the IOTA MAM-C library.

2019/06/24

XDK2MAM concludes Phase 1 of their EDF grant with a dashboard release, visualizing/storing datasets produced by the Bosch BCDS XDK110 sensor and publishing data bundles via decentralized IOTA MAM transactions.

2019/05/18

XDK2MAM publishes an update of their IOTA XDK for the BOSCH110 sensor array, now including USB connectivity.

2019/04/25

Daniel de Michele from XDK2MAM gives a talk at the IOTA Argentina Community Meetup.

2019/04/17

XDK2MAM publishes a status report regarding their integration of the BOSCH XDK 110 sensor array with IOTA.

2019/04/03

XDK2MAM publishes a series of video tutorials, explaining the IOTA MAM integration for the Bosch XDK.

2019/03/18

XDK2MAM holds a workshop at the first Uruguay Campus Party, introducing the BOSCH XDK110.

2018/12/26

XDK2MAM integrates Bluetooth Low Energy capabilities that can be used to send sensors data to the Tangle.

2018/12/03

XDK2MAM participates in the second IOTA community meetup in Valencia, Venezuala.

2018/11/21

XDK2MAM is officially included into the BOSCH XDK ecosystem

2018/10

XDK2MAM joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Qatar

Academia

2019/02/19

Members of the North China Electric Power University, Fayetteville State University, Temple University and Qatar University publish a paper on "When Energy Trading Meets Blockchain in Electrical Power System: The State of the Art", referencing IOTA.

2020/02/18

Members of the University of Texas and Qatar University, who also happens to be the director of the Cisco Regional Academy published a paper titled "Energy Efficiency of Medical Devices and Healthcare Applications", referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

HongKong

Finance

2019/07/25

A patent application filed by Xapo Holdings Ltd. is published, describing “Recording evidence of address/account allocations in a distributed ledger”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

China

Academia

2020/01/03

Members of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xidian University, Chongqing University, Shenzhen University published a paper titled "Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains", referencing IOTA.

2019/05/19

Members of the University of Chongqing, Xidian University, University of Glasgow, Institute of Telecommunications Portugal and University of North China publish an extensive academic paper on "When Internet of Things Meets Blockchain: Challenges in Distributed Consensus", analyzing the IOTA tangle.

2017/12/18

Xurux reveals a PoC for official document verification for the City of Haarlem, Netherlands

$n.a.

n.a.

Netherlands

IT

2017/12/18

Xurux reveals a PoC for official document verification for the City of Haarlem, Netherlands

$n.a.

n.a.

Taiwan

Other

2020/01/07

Yallvend exhibits its IOTA-based Digital ID vending machine at CES 2020, including payments via IOTA tokens.

2020/01/04

BiiLabs refers to the participation of its partner Yallvend at CES Las Vegas, which will present its IOTA-powered smart vending machine.

2019/11/27

BiiLabs publishes an article announcing its collaboration with vending machine producer Yallvend Co, Ltd on integration of blockchain-based Distributed Identification Systems, based on IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Norway

Other

2019/12/10

The IOTA Foundation collaborates with Felleskjøpet Agri, InFuture, Yara International, Eurofins TINE SA and Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet (NMBU) on a Smart Farming proof-of-concept.

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

IT

2019/01/03

A patent application filed by Zapcow Inc is published, describing a “Virtual currency system and method therefor”, referencing IOTA.

$n.a.

n.a.

Great Britain

Finance

2018/05/02

Zeux integrates IOTA for crypto payments at any retail stores accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay, globally.

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

Electronics

2019/08/29

EinfachIOTA.de publishes a video from the ZeMA industrial mechatronics/automation industry event.

2019/08/29

EinfachIOTA.de publishes a detailed report of the ZeMA industrial mechatronics/automation industry event, including images and detailed descriptions of the presented IOTA-based proof-of-concepts from ZeMa, Cretec GmbH, and the RWTH Aachen.

2019/08/28

The ZeMA - Zentrum für Mechatronik und Automatisierungstechnik gGmbH hosts an IOTA meetup, including two live demonstrations of the IILA and another company.

$42.21 bn

146,148

Germany

Electronics

2018/05/02

On May 2nd, 2018 the IOTA Foundation joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative as a 'partner', of which ZF Friedrichshafen is also a member.

2017/12/17

Dominik Schiener reveals in a presentation at the Global Blockchain Summit 2017 in Shanghai the joint development of a PoC for industry 4.0 supply chain audit trail in collaboration with ZF Friedrichshafen AG

$n.a.

n.a.

Switzerland

Academia

2019/12/10

Serguei Popov (IF) is invited to the Global Blockchain Summit of the Zigurat Global Institute of Technology.

$132 m

800

Switzerland

Electronics

2019/12/10

Simone Giehl from Zühlke Engineering GmbH mentions in a Q&A; during the IOTA Meetup in Karlsruhe that Zühlke is working on an IOTA project that is likely going to be revealed in Q1/2020.

2019/12/10

Jelle Millenaar is invited to an IOTA Meetup organised by the Forschungszentrum Informatik, including presentations of Jörg Nagel from Neoception GmbH, Simone Giehl from Zühlke Engineering GmbH, Martin Unterberg of the RWTH Aachen, Raphael Manke of the Forschungszentrum Informatik and Niclas Kannengießer of the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT).

2019/10/01

IOTA and Zühlke Partner up to accelerate Machine-as-a-Service solutions.

2019/05/21

IOT1 tweets from a meeting "Executive Management Forum for Digitalization in the Pharmaceutical Industry", invited by Zuehlke to speak about DLT and IOTA.

2016/12/27

Zuehlke sponsors an IOTA hackathon “HacktheValley” at Thomson Reuters and EY

2017/11/28

Zuehlke publishes an article about the cryptocurrency bubble, mentioning IOTA as a scalable alternative.

$n.a.

n.a.

USA

Other

2019/05/15

Evrythng, Avery Dennison, 1017 ALYX 9SM and the IOTA Foundation publish the result of their collaboration for a supply chain tracking solution that is already in production (see link), based on the IOTA Tangle.

$n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

2018/01

3for2 joins the IOTA Data Marketplace

$n.a.

n.a.

Germany

IT

2019/05/15

Members of the Technical University of Berlin, 51 nodes GmbH and Star Cooperation GmbH published a paper titled "Trusted systems of records based on Blockchain technology - a prototype for mileage storing in the automotive industry", referencing IOTA.