Iota Foundation to launch staging network and reward token

Iota Foundation to launch staging network and reward token

The staging network, titled Shimmer, will ensure all upcoming Iota upgrades are community-approved before roll-out, one of the critical components of a decentralized governance system. The Iota Foundation has announced the upcoming launch of a staging network, Shimmer, in a bid to advance through the Iota roadmap toward fully functional decentralization.The layer-one network will act as an innovation testbed for developers and builders in the community seeking to evaluate decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible token (NFT) applications. This sandbox model allows applications to....


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