Iota created huge hype on 2017. But they didn't improve after that.
They are quite for a long time. And i start to think they won't become something big.
Wherever you are getting your information, it has failed you miserably and you should cut ties, or better yet, do your own research--if you did the research, you've failed yourself.
Go read the link I posted just an hour ago--here you go, in case you are too lazy to look up
http://iotaarchive.com/. It doesn't even mention the partnership with the city of Austin or global blockchain partnerships as that's just from today.
https://www.globalblockchain.ventures/partnershttps://twitter.com/austinmobility/status/1121525933943472129IOTA has done nothing but improve on its positioning in the IOT industry--they've only gotten further out of reach than other DLTs in this scene and stand poised to be standarized in the next couple of years. Just think about that, a little project started on the NXT forums that raised a whopping $500k becoming a global standard in an industry projected in the tens of trillions of dollars over the next decades. Not some BS about digital gold or a store-of-wealth, but actually being what the industry uses for data streaming and payments.