The Alpha team will continue to improve our current systems aimed at the internet. This work includes the majority of current projects, including IRI, entangled, Trinity, libs, MAM and the coordicide project.

The Omega team will look towards the longer term — as the name suggests, to the final version of IOTA. Their remit includes the following workstreams:

Ict — an agent controlled by iotas (paid to its owner) for performing services built on top of the IOTA network. Qubic — a protocol that specifies IOTA’s solution for quorum-based computations. IXI — an interface aiming to extend IOTA protocol functionality in a modular manner — and IXI-plugins (e.g. Timestamping IXI, Graph IXI) required to connect Qubic and other future projects to IOTA. Various tools for the above (e.g. Merkle signature scheme for economic clustering (EC) markers). Porting of Ict to Android (as a proof of concept) and implementation of Network-bound PoW prototype.

It should be noted that there will undoubtedly be some overlap between the remit of the 2 teams. For example systems like Qubic will be deployed on the internet, but we feel they would benefit from working in the Omega style at this current time. Of course as with traditional bimodal approaches, some of the Omega projects may migrate to the Alpha team for full operationalisation.