About the IOTA Foundation

From one to many

The IOTA Foundation's journey has been marked by key milestones, from its founding to its pivotal role in decentralizing technology and driving real-world applications across industries.

2017

Building a Bold Vision

The IOTA Foundation was founded to develop a next-generation distributed ledger technology (DLT) that could overcome the limitations of traditional blockchains. The Foundation?s mission was to create a protocol to support real-world applications while fostering an independent ecosystem, attracting a global team of innovators.
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Expanding Applications and Collaborations

IOTA's transparency, immutability, and secure data transfer capabilities have been fundamental to many collaborative projects across sectors like mobility (Gaia-X ROMS), data governance (GOVS), smart meters (SUSEE), and e-commerce (ENSURESEC) and collaboration with entities like Volkswagen, Bosch, Fujitsu, TMForum, and Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Decentralization and Empowerment

A critical step in IOTA's journey has been decentralizing its governance and ecosystem. By fostering a community of developers, startups, and corporations, the IOTA Foundation supports independent teams to build solutions and grow the ecosystem. It has also spun off mature projects into independent entities, allowing IOTA's core priorities -' research, protocol development, and regulatory advocacy -' to remain central while empowering the broader ecosystem.
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Driving global adoption

Two supporting entities help drive the adoption of IOTA tech and its token around the world: the Tangle Ecosystem Association, a Swiss-based non-profit association, and the IOTA Ecosystem DLT Foundation, the first DLT foundation to be registered in Abu Dhabi Global Markets.
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A Thriving Ecosystem

Today, IOTA thrives with independent teams launching applications, running decentralized governance initiatives, and advancing the protocol without direct involvement from the Foundation. This growing community is key to IOTA?s continued success.
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