On Wednesday, the Ankr team announced via a blog post that it has joined the IOTA ecosystem as a validator node operator, delivering unparalleled reliability to secure the IOTA blockchain.
The two entities will work together to create an opportunity for builders to leverage the most secure, accessible, and decentralized IOT development environment. By taking on the vital task of validator node operations for IOTA, Ankr commits to providing an essential service for the project.
Ankr Network is building a full-stack cloud infrastructure and marketplace for container-based cloud services. Users can now stake FTM tokens on Ankr to earn ANKR tokens. ANKR is trading at $0.03097, down 4% in the last 24 hours.
IOTA is a permissionless distributed ledger "for a new economy." IOTA aims to support the growth of a machine economy by enabling "fee-less machine-to-machine payments," offering greater scalability than blockchain networks. IOTA is trading at $0.3155, down 3% in the last 24 hours.