The IoTeX ecosystem strikes again in its quest to bring DePIN to everyone! Switch Electric and Drop Wireless, long term members of the IoTeX ecosystem, are partnering up to enable Switch Electric's sustainable and decentralized energy initiative through the establishment of LoRaWAN coverage in underserved regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Switch Electric will leverage Drop Wireless LoRaWAN infrastructure to establish network coverage for smart meters using the token-incentivized M3tering protocol.

The recent ascendance of the DePIN space into the crypto mainstream poses several questions and challenges, such as decentralization, scalability, verifiability, identity management and data trust. The article below will delve into some of these challenges and the solutions proposed by the IoTeX core team through one of its products: W3bstream, a Rollup-centric scalable architecture for off-chain data computation. A DePIN Refresher The DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) se

Introduction We are excited to share the latest developments in the W3bstream project with our community. Our upcoming release, "Sprout", will mark a significant leap forward towards providing a fully decentralized infrastructure essential for applications that require custom proofs derived from off-chain data (like "proofs of physical work" in DePIN).This blog will delve into what Sprout is, how it differs from W3bstream DevNet, and the exciting possibilities it opens up for node operators and

DropWireless aims to pioneer a new era of decentralized peer-to-peer advertising through its DePIN platform DropWireless Media, leveraging the the IoTeX stack and W3bstream. Here's a deep dive into the application flow and a diagram for the tech savvies to show how DW is using W3bstream to generate zk-proofs of off-chain execution to trigger on-chain rewards for network providers, thus making DropWireless a truly trust-less and verifiable DePIN application. The Application Flow: The diagram

The IoTeX core release v1.12.0 is just around the corner. Here's a rundown of what's new, and what you need to do to stay synced with the blockchain. Important Dates and Info First and foremost, please mark your calendars: v1.12.0 introduces a hardfork, set to activate at block height 26,704,441. The estimated time of activation is 11/05/2023 at 23:59pm UTC. This means that if you're running a node, you need to upgrade to the latest release before this block height. Failure to do so might lea

With our community voting in full favor on the IoTeX Improvement Proposal 14, Account Abstraction has finally hit the IoTeX Mainnet and Testnet, and its features are now available for all ecosystem devs. So, what is AA, how does it work, and how can you use it in your next application? A Quick Refresher Account Abstraction (AA) as defined by ERC-4337, "allows users to use smart contract wallets containing arbitrary verification logic instead of EOAs as their primary account." ERC-4337 introdu

The IoTeX Core Release 1.11.0 opens a new frontier for developers, introducing the much-anticipated IIP-13 (Represent Staking Buckets As Non-fungible Tokens) and IIP-14 (Account Abstraction via EntryPoint Contract) features. With overwhelming support from our community, these updates are set to revolutionize the way staking mechanisms and account operations are handled in the IoTeX blockchain. This new version features a crucial hardfork, set to be activated on the IoTeX mainnet at block height

W3bstream, developed by the IoTeX core team, is a cutting-edge computational infrastructure designed to revolutionize the way applications can verify and utilize real-world data to tokenize user behaviors in the physical world. W3bstream effectively acts as the underlying infrastructure for DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) projects, driving innovation and collaboration in the web3 landscape. W3bstream Devnet We are excited to announce the W3bstream Devnet release, a signi

Gnosis Safe is a popular Ethereum-based multi-signature wallet designed for teams and organizations to manage their digital assets securely. GS has been widely used by many decentralized applications in the web3 space and it has become the go-to tool for many developers wishing to add an extra layer of security in their products. IoTeX partner Protofire has deployed a Gnosis Safe fork on the IoTeX network for a tri-party collaboration to enable robust tools for the IoTeX developer ecosystem. G

A Trusted Execution Environment is one of those fundamental topics that doesn’t get enough attention in discussions on IoT / connected devices. There are many areas where the integrity of data and the ability to execute programs in a protected environment is of paramount importance. Having highly sensitive information such as passwords, private keys, etc. processed and stored in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) provides the most reliable IoT data. Data that needs the highest level of secur

Our developer community has been great. The updated IoTex Developer Portal, after a few months of beta testing, has launched its 1.0 release. This release is the result of gathering and incorporating the creative ideas of our developer community into our vision of a space designed to serve the needs of our developers. A Place to Learn and Build MachineFi dApps You probably know this. A good community of Developers is where people learn, share, teach each other, network, and ultimately thrive.

IoTeX now has a dedicated endpoint for RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls) that makes it much easier to connect to the IoTeX blockchain. The public URL, https://iotexrpc.com, does not require a username or password and will be fast and reliable. What are RPCs and why are they useful? RPCs (Remote Procedure Call) are a type of API (Application Programming Interface). These let developers run code remotely and receive a response from, in this case, the IoTeX blockchain. For the IoTeX community and th