Leaders in DLT Research
Leaders in DLT Research
The Research Department studies, tests, and simulates improvements to the IOTA protocol.
Research Department
The Research Department has several key functions: securing the protocol, innovating new developments, overseeing academic research collaborations, communicating new concepts to the community, and investigating fundamental DLT questions.
To achieve our goal of improving the IOTA protocol, we identify possible changes, theorize solutions, simulate proposals, and test our theories. This process involves much internal discussion and collaboration with external parties.
When team members agree that an approach is nearing the deployment stage, when all stakeholders are confident in its success, and when we have had peer-reviewed external validation, the Engineering Team joins the discussions to turn the approach into code.
Our Goals
Moving the IOTA protocol forward to meet the IOTA vision.
Be a leader in DLT research.
Explore our research
Please visit our Research Papers page to browse our collection of IOTA-related academic works and publications.
Guided by Academic Expertise
Research Council
Oversight and governance is essential for a technology with as much potential as IOTA. The Research Council sets direction, provides academic oversight, assesses grant funding, and oversees academic collaboration.
Our Distinguished Academics
Professor Robert Shorten
Professor Bill Buchanan
Professor Serguei Popov
Professor Mauro Conti
Coordicide
The IOTA Foundation is preparing to take its most important step to date in the maturity of the IOTA protocol — realizing the dream of a permissionless and scalable distributed ledger technology (DLT).
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