IOTA Collaborates with University of Oslo’s Department of Informatics to Accelerate Tangle Research

According to a recent announcement, IOTA (MIOTA), a German open-source distributed ledger technology (DLT) protocol focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new data economy has collaborated with the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo (UiO) to research Digital Trust and the Tangle. The alliance between IOTA and the Department of Informatics at UiO will focus on Decentralized Digital Identity (DID) and GDPR Compliance of the IOTA stack and explore its use across several application domains.

The joint research aims to develop a technical solution that enables GDPR compliance for IOTA technologies in the context of a decentralized digital identity platform. At present, numerous enterprises, SMEs, and academic institutions are cooperating to research, co-develop, and implement Digital Identity solutions based on IOTA’s technologies.

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