Track the technologies shaping connected systems.
Plain-language briefings on the Internet of Things, blockchain and distributed ledgers, AI, cyber security, quantum computing and the infrastructure that connects them, with long-form guides built on central bank reports, standards briefings and academic research.
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BLOCKCHAIN & DLT
A full walkthrough of blockchain technology — what it is, how it evolved, the different types in use today, and the…
INTERNET OF THINGS
Connected sensors and devices that collect and exchange data in the physical world — the backbone of everything…
CLOUD COMPUTING
On-demand compute, storage, and networking delivered over the internet, so organizations rent capacity instead of…
DRONE TECHNOLOGY
Unmanned aerial systems have gone from military reconnaissance tools to a genuine industry — agriculture, emergency…
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Computation built on superposition and entanglement, promising leaps in cryptography, simulation, and optimization.
CYBER SECURITY
Defense of networks, devices, and data against unauthorized access — the discipline behind every breach headline on…
DIGITAL IDENTITY
How people and machines prove who they are online — credentials, biometrics, and the systems that verify them…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Machine learning systems that generate, predict, and automate — from large language models to the infrastructure…
SMART CONTRACTS
Self-executing code stored on a blockchain that automatically carries out an agreement's terms once its conditions…
ECOSYSTEM
The wider web of wallets, exchanges, developer tools, and infrastructure that make blockchains usable day to day.…
COUNTRIES
How different governments and their financial institutions are actually engaging with blockchain — verified…
BANK PROJECTS
Source-linked profiles of central bank and bank tokenisation projects, starting with the BIS Innovation Hub (Project…
INTERNET OF VALUE
The emerging digital infrastructure that lets money, assets, ownership, and other forms of value move across networks…
REAL WORLD ASSETS
The practice of representing off-chain assets — treasuries, private credit, real estate, commodities, funds — as…
Deep dives
Longer guides, each built on a named primary source and cited at the end.
Project Khokha: South Africa's Tokenised Rand
A plain-language walkthrough of the South African Reserve Bank's 2018 proof of concept for settling interbank payments…
Central bank projects · 3 min readProject Dunbar: A Shared Multi-CBDC Platform
What Project Dunbar tested: one shared platform for several central bank digital currencies, two prototypes, and two…
Bank projects · 3 min readHSBC Orion, Tokenised Deposits and Gold
A sourced guide to HSBC Orion, the Tokenised Deposit Service, the HSBC Gold Token and a quantum-safe gold pilot, with…
Standards · 3 min readISO 20022 and Crypto: What Compliant Means
ISO 20022 is a messaging standard for financial institutions. Here is what it is, who has to use it, and why there is…
Digital identity · 3 min readKnown Traveller Digital Identity Explained
How the Known Traveller Digital Identity concept lets travellers share verified facts selectively, and how it differs…
Public policy · 4 min readUK Report on Distributed Ledgers, Explained
A summary of the UK Government Office for Science report on distributed ledger technology: its eight recommendations…
What you will find here
Legion I.O.T explains how connected technology works and where it is actually being used. Each topic page breaks a field into plain-language building blocks. Each deep dive takes one real document, for example the South African Reserve Bank’s Project Khokha report or the Bank of Israel’s digital shekel paper, explains what it found and says what it did not test.
The ecosystem hub profiles 29 blockchain projects with live prices, and the briefings combine live feeds with short editor snapshots. The glossary defines the vocabulary used throughout. We list only partnerships that have been publicly confirmed, and nothing here is investment advice. See how we work on the editorial policy page, or read more about the site.