• What is #IOTA
• The team behind
• How it works
• Iota's new decentralized plan
• Benefits of Iota
• Shimmer layer 1
• Closing Thoughts
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The brand new, completely decentralized #IOTA network is here:
The very best implementation of a feeless Distributed Ledger based on a DAG, It's able to host smart contracts, #Defi platforms, and second-layer applications.
The #IOTA Foundation team is distributed across 25+ countries but has one shared vision. The two main founders I found on Twitter are @navinram999 and Dominik Schiener.
3/ No Coordinator anymore, new message structure, new consensus mechanism. The brand-new #IOTA network is here to stay.
Why?
• Decentralized, secure & permissionless
• Finality within seconds
• Lightweight and modular
• Feeless transactions
Let me explain how it works ↓
→ Decentralized, secure & permissionless
Based on a leaderless consensus protocol, IOTA 2.0 is the most decentralized distributed ledger protocol able to handle more than just payments.
→ Finality within seconds
Transactions reach finality in seconds without having to wait for confirmations by centralized entities, regardless of the number of network participants.
→ Lightweight and modular
Low-power devices do not have issues running a node as message creation and validation are not expensive operations.
#Iota 's modular approach enables countless extensions of the base protocol through additional modules.
→ Feeless transactions
IOTA 2.0 enables the secure transfer of data and value between humans and machines, opening up new business models based on micro-payments.
4/ The IOTA 2.0 Development Network is focusing on:
💎 Feelessness: A user can issue a message without having to pay a fee to anyone.
💎 Security. An attacker cannot influence the network rules, double-spend tokens
💎 Decentralization.
5/ IOTA's Decentralized plan:
Data and transactions are contained in objects called messages.
Every message must reference two to eight other messages.
Thus the collection of all messages, called the Tangle, is an ever-growing DAG.
Currently, the Chrysalis network is governed by the coordinator, a centralized node run by the #IOTA Foundation.
The coordinator states which transactions and data are included in the ledger
To make these decisions, the IOTA 2.0 protocol works in a cycle ↓
6/
#Shimmer is the incentivized Layer 1 innovation network.
It's built to spark the growth of feeless and highly interoperable digital assets and token economies.
Just like IOTA, Shimmer is a DAG-based parallelized settlement layer with higher L2 anchoring capacity than standard blockchains.
#Shimmer is a validation ground for innovations geared toward the #IOTA network. Its native token is $SMR.
Developers have an early mover advantage to build a new ecosystem on a feeless, bridgeless base.