About

IOC (I/O coin) is currently in steadfast development, upgrading it's open source blockchain protocol to host a fully private cryptocurrency. Enabling fully confidential, decentralized peer to peer digital payments. iOC currently fuels Dapps (decentralized applications) that take advantage of a full array of features, from encrypted document storage, encrypted transfer, identity storage to a fully encrypted messaging system.

History

In 2015, iOC moved away from the Bitcoin QT wallet and replaced it with an HTML5/JS based UI wallet along with IONOS DNS. In 2016, the iOC community and developers formed the I/O Digital foundation to further awareness of the open source public blockchain as it was done for Bitcoin, Litecoin and a few other fair launched projects. In 2017, I/O developers upgraded iOC's blockchain protocol to codename DIONS "Decentralized Input Output Name Server" further enhancing the base platform to host decentralized applications. 

In 2019, iOC's main focus was privacy, aiming to serve as a privacy based economic and social platform. iOC pursued this goals by expanding their own privacy based Zero Knowledge protocol "NightHawk", ring signatures, and Anon Balances.

NightHawk protocol is currently on stand-by as the team is embarking on developing Non Turing Complete smart contracts to be deployed in 2021. The team will follow with a project codenamed "Chameleon" - a scalable, entropy-based molecular graph ledger - to advance interoperability between multiple blockchains, deploy our own scalable virtual machine, and create an I/O abstract smart contract ecosystem.

iOC is a fully decentralized world wide cryptocurrency maintained by the I/O Digital Foundation and the iOC World Wide Community.