Meanwhile, the Iota foundation introduces the Chronicle, a permanent distrode; what makes Chronicle so unique is the opportunity for community members and even businesses to offer the Tangle data "query as a service". With some minor development, the owners could earn money by charging IOTA tokens to access historical Tangle data. It could be ensured by a quorum of internal and external nodes the absolute truthfulness of the data.
Finally, as previously announced last March, the collaboration with Zeux, now Iota is finally implemented as payment methods through Apple pay and Samsung pay (currently only in the UK).