The IOTA Foundation was established in Germany in 2017 to support the development of the IOTA platform and related technologies. The aim of the foundation has always been to operate in a collaborative manner with other parties. Over the last few months, however, the IOTA platform has been the subject of ongoing criticism by the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) team at the MIT Media Lab. This document serves as the IOTA Foundation’s official and comprehensive response to these criticisms.

Editor’s Note:

All of the information and links contained in this multi-part document were publicly available prior to publication. None of the information contained herein is new or revelatory.

This is a collective effort by many members of the IOTA Foundation and IOTA Core team. The purpose of this aggregation is to add color and context to these complicated and multi-faceted issues, so that the entire Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) community can decide the relevance of this information for themselves.