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IOTA

Logo: IOTA Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency

IOTA is an open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency designed for the Internet of things (IoT). It uses a directed acyclic graph to store transactions on its ledger, motivated by a potentially higher scalability over blockchain based distributed ledgers.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jun 11, 2016Founded1
  • Websiteiota.org
  • Listed onBinance, eToro1
  • Kind of organizationCryptocurrency1

IOTA is an open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency designed for the Internet of things (IoT). It uses a directed acyclic graph to store transactions on its ledger, motivated by a potentially higher scalability over blockchain based distributed ledgers.2

Timeline

  1. Jun 11, 2016Founded Founded1

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