Freeman25

In Love with Spain, Italy, UK, Bitcoin and IOTA

[IOTA @iota]

A mining company in Rwanda. Specialises in Tantalum.

Pays 20% interest just to access trade finance.

Tokenize the assets. Provide financing digitally. Pay out in stablecoins, instantly, even on a weekend.

That's the trade finance gap, closed in practice.

[IOTA @iota]

Cross-border paperless trade in Asia Pacific still sits at around 42%.
The appetite is there.

The next step is shared infrastructure every party can trust - the kind IOTA is built to provide.

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

[ICYMI] A single cross-border transaction can involve up to 30 stakeholders, 36 documents, 240 paper copies.

This friction causes systemic delays, spiraling costs, and frozen cargo while the world keeps moving.

Watch how TWIN is solving this.

#TrustedTrade

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

Digitizing trade in the UK could add £25 billion in economic growth and £224 billion in efficiency savings.

For small and medium businesses, that could mean a 35% efficiency gain.

The paperwork layer is where a lot of that value sits locked up.

#TrustedTrade

[moon.iota @mooniota]

TWIN says it will go live across:

"several major UK port systems"

I think TWIN may be integrating with the infrastructure that multiple UK ports already use. Rather than announcing individual port integrations.

If true, that would be a much more scalable rollout.

Daniel Shelcot from MCP/Destin8 joining the TWIN Expert Advisory Board makes that possibility even more interesting.

Although there's no confirmation they're referring to Destin8.

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

@TLIP_io Read our inaugural blog post here: : https://t.co/LNS0y4vrC6

[IOTA @iota]

We are incredibly proud to support @TWINGlobalOrg as the technology foundation powering this global trade revolution!

In just one year, TWIN is dismantling paper bottlenecks and bringing real transparency to supply chains across three continents.

The future of trade is digital. 👇

[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

I made an educated guess in April that @salusplatform was active for critical minerals originating from Rwanda 🇷🇼 and DR Congo 🇨🇩.
Today's #TWIN update confirms that was correct and adds Nigeria 🇳🇬 to the #SALUS list. https://t.co/riDnpYTp5e
#IOTA

[IOTATO 🥔 @IOTATO_TAT]

I still believe $IOTA recovers and has a real future ahead.

I know how the last months felt. The price has been brutal and patience is wearing thin for a lot of us. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

But here's why I'm still holding with conviction.

IOTA has a real USP, something most projects simply don't have.

It's not trying to be a smart contract platform for everything.

It's not trying to be the next chain with 50 different maybe-use cases that might work someday.

It does one thing, and it does it seriously:

Trade.

And trade isn't a speculative bet on some future that may never arrive.

It has been the backbone of the world economy for thousands of years. Trillions move through it every single day.

The crazy thing is how little it has modernized.

Still running on paper, faxes, and documents nobody can verify in time.

That's exactly the gap IOTA is going after.

Not fighting 200 other chains for the same DeFi users.

Building real infrastructure for a market that already exists, already moves trillions, and has been waiting decades for someone to actually fix it.

Post-Rebased, that focus is sharper than ever.

TWIN.
ADAPT.
Real pilots.
Real partners.
Price always lags fundamentals, sometimes way too long.
But the direction is set, and I'd rather be early than chase it later. 🌀💎

[Stefan @iota_penguin]

Intra-African trade currently accounts for only around 14% of the continent's total trade, significantly below levels seen in regions such as the European Union (around 60%) and Asia (around 50%).

A key reason is that trade across Africa remains hindered by infrastructure gaps, limited cross-border connectivity and fragmented customs and border systems that keep trade costs unnecessarily high.

@AfCFTA is addressing regulatory and market barriers, while ADAPT built on @TWINGlobalOrg is supporting the digital infrastructure needed to enable trusted data exchange.

Together, these efforts are laying the foundation for a digitally enabled African trade ecosystem, with the goal of reaching all 55 member countries by 2035.

[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

The 🇬🇧 update gets better and reveals later this year, #TWIN will go alive across "several major port systems". They don't say which ones but did they leave a clue? The update signs off with a reference to Newcastle. Random? I'll leave this map here for your consideration.
#IOTA

[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

Jolly good UK 🇬🇧 #TWIN update from @TWINGlobalOrg today https://t.co/riDnpYTp5e.
I've been joining dots connecting #TWIN and the wider work of @TeessideUni Digital Trade Testbed (DTT) for ages (eg autonomous vehicles) but this may be the first confirmation I wasn't going mad.

[IOTA @iota]

"I'm looking forward to the day I meet a Ghanaian fabric maker or a Kenyan fintech company easily accessing a continental market - more focused on value creation, not figuring out how to be compliant."

Alban Odhiambo, @InstituteGC, on what ADAPT is ultimately building toward for African entrepreneurs.

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

Global trade keeps the world moving, but it’s still trapped in paper.

One transaction can involve 30 stakeholders, 240 paper copies and weeks of delays.

TWIN is the trusted trade network built to fix that. Watch how in just over 2 minutes.

#TrustedTrade

[IOTA @iota]

The vision: connect 55 countries across Africa through a single digital trade network.

Increase cross-border trade.

Decrease costs.

Decrease payment times.

It started with a pilot in Kenya five years ago.

It's scaling now.

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

"Certificate of Origin" sounds simple.

It's a document proving where goods were made - which determines tariff rates, trade agreement eligibility, and sometimes whether goods are allowed in at all.

They are routinely forged.
Routinely accepted anyway.

Because there has been no fast way to verify them.

#TrustedTrade

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

Approximately 14% of food is lost between harvest and retail.

Most of it the result of customs clearance delays and mismatched or missing regulatory documentation.

A traceability problem more than a logistics one.

#TrustedTrade

[IOTA @iota]

"This is where we see that we have an opportunity, like no other blockchain, to actually conquer that market."

@DomSchiener at the @wkforum.

[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

It's the big breaking news story we've all been waiting for. The @TeesworksUK June board papers are online https://t.co/Czw9AUKItm and para 8 says: "@TeesValleyCA's marketing team have supported @TeessideUni with a marketing plan for the 5G Digital Trade Testbed"... home to #TWIN

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

Border-related admin costs can be as high as 20% of a good's retail price.

One in five dollars.

Not from making the thing.
From the paperwork required to move it.

#TrustedTrade