IOTA’s Pollen Testnet Lays Foundation for a Decentralized and Feeless IOTA 2.0 Network

German distributed ledger technology (DLT) project IOTA today released Pollen – a research testbed aimed at facilitating the IOTA community, researchers, and engineers, to test and validate the concepts of the upcoming fully decentralized, feeless, and scalable IOTA 2.0 network. As part of its three-stage release strategy, IOTA today released the Pollen testbed after “years of intensive research, rigorous testing, and tireless efforts,” put in by the project’s engineers.

Pollen marks a significant milestone in IOTA’s journey toward the Coordicide – the event that would eliminate the centralized coordinator node and make the Internet of Things (IoT) network truly decentralized. Having successfully released the Pollen testbed, IOTA now looks forward to the launch of another major release; Nectar.

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