IOTA releases Assembly network, community gets 70% of token supply

IOTA has released Assembly, a new decentralized layer-1 smart contract network with a native ASMB token, Invezz learned from a press release. The Assembly mainnet will be launched as a permissionless network next year. It is the first network of its kind, where more than two-thirds of the native tokens will be given to developers, creators, early participants and DAOs of the Assembly ecosystem.

Novel architecture based on IOTA smart contract framework

Assembly’s unique architecture of Assembly is based on IOTA’s Smart Contracts framework, which leverages IOTA as a trustless bridge for feeless interoperability between smart contracts. On Assembly, developers can create and launch their own smart contract chains against the backdrop of the network’s share security.

Parallel execution of smart contracts

IOTA’s directed acyclic graph structure makes it possible to execute smart contracts in parallel, transforming Assembly into a sharded network that can scale while maintaining composability, interoperability, and security.

Feeless network

Assembly’s network has fixed fees as low as zero because it makes it possible to define execution fees for smart contracts individually. These and other novelties help builders on Assembly eliminate existing barriers to entry.

Dominik Schiener, Co-Founder and Chairman of the IOTA Foundation, commented:

Navin Ramachandran, Member of the Board of Directors of the IOTA Foundation, added:

Multiple programming languages supported

Assembly can spawn interoperable virtual machines, beginning with EMV and smart contracts written in either Solidity or TinyGo. Its creators have addressed many of the current bottlenecks of other networks, such as MEV (Miner Extractable Value), which the network does not enable.