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[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

This @imperialcollege 🇬🇧 event earlier featuring @SciTechgovuk & @energygovuk Minister Lord Vallance and Marc Lemaître of @EU_Commission isn’t obviously linked to #IOTA until you look a bit closer... https://t.co/RzhJfbmuRW

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🚨 The most mature TWIN signal may be coming from the United Kingdom.

Africa is not waiting. Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco are moving fast, and they may represent one of the biggest real-world opportunities ever seen for digital trade infrastructure. Scale, ambition, demographics and cross-border trade are all there.

But that is exactly why the UK matters so much.

In the race to define the future of trusted digital trade, the UK seems to understand what is at stake. It does not want to watch from the sidelines while Africa builds the next generation of trade infrastructure. It wants to be there. Early. Serious. Competitive.

And there are already signals.

🇬🇧 £3.5M in UK Freeport grant funding to support digital trade implementation.
🇵🇱➡️🇬🇧 2,000+ poultry consignments tracked from Poland to the UK.
🇰🇪➡️🇳🇱 Kenya’s flower trade showing real-world digital trade potential.

This is infrastructure moving into real corridors. Africa brings scale and speed. The UK brings institutional, financial and regulatory validation.

And if both move fast, the market may finally understand what IOTA and TWIN have really been building.

💎2026: data, documents and trust.
💎2027: finance, money flows and real economic value.

The timeline is clear: data first, trust first, money next.

#IOTA #UK #TWIN #AfCFTA #ADAPT

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🤖💅🫡 @SolydarOrg, no, I don’t see this as alarming.

IOTA is entering a more mature phase of decentralization.

The validator count going down may lead some people to draw the wrong conclusions, but the reality is different: delegation contracts are being reviewed in May.

What does that mean?

During the early phase, the IF supported part of the validator set through delegations. In other words, not by “lending” tokens as ownership, but by delegating economic staking power to selected operators so they could run nodes with enough weight, strengthen the network, incentivize validators and accelerate initial decentralization. That made sense during the bootstrapping phase, but now a new stage begins.

The network has to move from Foundation-supported decentralization toward a more professional, more resilient and more economically real form of decentralization.

In other words:

💠 less forced decentralization
💠 stronger validators
💠 better prepared operators
💠 more delegation discipline
💠 fewer zombie nodes
💠 infrastructure more aligned with institutional use

This should be understood as a natural network cleanup. And it also fits perfectly with Starfish. Starfish does not only change consensus. It changes the kind of network IOTA wants to become.

The protocol improves behavior under adverse conditions, but it also requires more professional nodes because it increases active communication between validators. Relatively passive nodes are no longer enough. There is now more coordination, more message exchange and more technical responsibility.

According to the technical data discussed, bandwidth requirements could increase by roughly 2x. Average latency may become slightly less aggressive, but worst-case scenario performance improves, which is exactly what matters when you want to talk to governments, global trade networks and critical infrastructure.

That is not a bug. It is the price of becoming infrastructure for governments, trade networks and real-world institutional systems.
And here is the important part 👇

When the network stops depending on artificially maintained nodes and starts requiring operators capable of handling load, failures, bandwidth and institutional requirements, the door opens to a different class of validators.

💎 Not just community.
💎 Not just early supporters.
💎 Not just delegation-based nodes.

But institutional actors, professional infrastructure operators, companies connected to digital trade, logistics, identity, compliance and critical services built on IOTA.

That is the decentralization that matters: not the kind that inflates numbers to look strong, but the kind that turns the network into infrastructure that can be used, audited, operated and sustained by real actors.

🚫 Less artificial decentralization.
🔥 More structural decentralization.

That transition may be uncomfortable. But for IOTA, it is the perfect path toward success and real decentralization.
#IOTA #TWIN #Starfish #Decentralization

[Finland in Kenya @FinlandinKenya]

Kenya's 🇰🇪 agri-food sector is full of opportunity for young entrepreneurs 👩🏾‍🌾🧑🏾‍🌾 — but finance, technology & skills gaps remain. Last week, Finland 🇫🇮, IFAD & partners launched the Food Systems Analysis Report to help change that. The opportunity is there. Let's unlock it. 🌱🚀🌟

[Karen OBrien @bondjanebond]

A big challenge with enterprise and government adoption in global trade is that the most visible metrics often come last.
Onchain activity matters. But before you get there, there are other signals of progress:
• Partnerships signed
• Trade corridors enabled
• Governments onboarded
• Systems integrated
• Documents digitized
• Compliance workflows implemented
• Trade finance unlocked

Enterprise adoption typically follows a path:
Partnerships → Pilots → Implementations → Adoption → Scale
👉The question isn't whether these initiatives create value. The question is: what evidence shows that a project is moving from concept to implementation and toward scale, even before the full impact is visible?

[IOTA @iota]

In Kenya, we connected to 34 different government systems.

Getting their data. Putting it on chain.
Making it verifiable. Making it shareable.

That's what real-world adoption looks like.

[Dominik Schiener @DomSchiener]

@cryptocom Yessir.

When will you list #IOTA finally? We are happy to support!

[Agimiota.iota @Agimiota]

@Rahul_2503 il te manque #IOTA

[moon.iota @mooniota]

$IOTA’s Morocco move is bigger than people think

🇲🇦Tanger Med port handled 11.1 million containers in 2025

Now ask yourself:

what sits behind every container?

Customs data, Certificates, Invoices, Trade finance...

That is why Morocco matters.

Tanger Med connects 180+ ports worldwide and sits at one of the most insane trade positions on the map

Africa below it.
Europe above it.
Atlantic and Mediterranean around it.

This is real leverage,

Because ADAPT is not trying to "move containers."

It is trying to make the trusted data around trade move better.

If documents, identities and payment rails become digital and verifiable,

you are suddenly touching the layer that every shipment depends on.

And Morocco gives that system serious volume to plug into.

➜ 1,200 companies

➜ 110,000 jobs

➜ $15B in exports

That is the part people miss.

IOTA’s opportunity is not just "Africa adoption."

It is being positioned around the infrastructure where global trade already happens.

[kowei.iota @kowei1995]

iota:native 計劃成為貿易物流信任層，從非洲大陸開始讓國家上鏈

[kowei.iota @kowei1995]

Hi all 👋 Sharing a research note I put together recently — on how the Mysticeti consensus protocol diverged into Sui's Mysticeti V2 and our own Starfish at @IOTA. I used LLMs to help structure the technical narrative and the result was surprisingly clear, so sharing both the method and the content.

The starting point: Mysticeti v1's betDrop explicit certification, let the DAG structure itself act as a "virtual certificate," and push BFT latency down to the theoretical lower bound of 3 message delays. This buys extremely low latency — but the cost is two open gaps: liveness lacks a rigorous proof, and dissemination is fragile at scale.

The two diverging paths
Sui → Mysticeti V2: Concludes the consensus core is already near-optimal, and instead targets the pre-consensus transaction validation that sits outside consensus — optimizing for happy-path latency.

IOTA → Starfish: Concludes the core's dissemination / liveness is the actual problem, and uses erasure coding + DAC to put the certificate back into the core in a cheaper form.

https://t.co/YOcpsFHPlj

[anymose @anymose]

3,282 家区块链项目倒闭，熊市到底谁还在干活

我喜欢没事儿就去 @RootDataZH 翻数据，很多人没注意运营状态选项。当我选择停止运营的时候震惊了，110 页足足有 3,282 家倒闭了...好残酷的，很多项目撑不了一年。

能持续运营并跨越周期的项目，是否值得高看一眼？

让我们浅入！

⬇️

2026 年至今，几个宣布关闭的知名项目就包括 NFT 交易市场 Nifty、借贷市场 ZeroLend、Defi 聚合器 Step、Defi 团队 Balancer……活着，不卖壳、不作恶操纵价格提款机、实实在在搞业务，这样的项目有一个算一个，都值得respect。

说来也奇怪，我觉得项目也有自己性格的，一些项目想到就是老实巴交的感觉，比如 Huma、IOTA 这些，我自己也是这个性格，所以可能跟这些项目比较暗合一点、关注也自然多一点。

借助 Surf 可以轻松接入 Hermes 做一个提醒发给 TG bot，每天就能最方便跟踪这些项目动态。我会把 IOTA 几个比较关键的信息交给 AI 收集推送：

‣ 官推推文
‣ 媒体文章
‣ 社交情绪
‣ 币价表现
‣ 大额交易

基本上这些每日推送就能获得项目的基本更新了。今天收到了推送，IOTA 首批实施 ADAPT 计划国家确认了，肯尼亚、摩洛哥和尼日利亚。

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老读者知道我之前就介绍过 ADAPT 计划，就是那个为非洲内部贸易构建共享的数字基础设施涵盖数字身份、跨境数据交换和支付互操作性的计划，去年 11 月启动的。

让非洲兄弟弯道超车先数字化、区块链化现在不是玩笑话了，非洲最大经济体尼日利亚、移动支付最发达国家肯尼亚、数字化程度最高的国家之一摩洛哥现在已经经过政治承诺、监管准备度、数字基础设施成熟度、私营部门参与度四维评估，起飞了。

所有的区块链底层技术，Powered by @iota 。

有点唏嘘，这种做底层基建的项目往往都需要长周期考察，一时间很难立竿见影在估值或价格上得到反馈。但是，历史经验告诉我们，熊市或资本泡沫破裂的时候，优秀的基建项目都在周期穿越后取得了丰厚回报。IOTA 把数字身份 + 跨境数据 + 支付互操作带到非洲，在这片大地进行实验、实践，假以时日，房间里的大象也许就是呼之欲出。

毕竟，ADAPT 也不是一个科技公司随便找几个国家签个协议拿来资本市场讲故事的东西，它是实打实非洲大陆自由贸易区（AfCFTA）秘书处牵头、托尼·布莱尔全球变革研究所、世界经济论坛和 IOTA 基金会合作开发项目。

接下来要干啥？美国天才法案、香港稳定币法案都给打样了，稳定币。三个国家将开始测试数字货币尤其是稳定币的监管框架，这不就是为下一步跨境支付做准备嘛。

如果，我说如果，将来非洲大部分的稳定币跨境支付跑在 IOTA 上，那画面可太美了。

祝我们好运！

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作者：anymose ｜ 一个软核科普作家

本文仅做科普使用，不构成任何投资建议，永远记得 DYOR！

[泵泵超人 | Pumpman 🔶 @crypto_pumpman]

🧐 IOTA ( iota:native ) 基金会 宣布签下 3个 非洲国家 的合作，作为 ADAPT 的首批试验性国家

最近 IOTA @iota 签下 肯尼亚（非洲移动支付渗透率最高）、摩洛哥（数字治理最成熟）、尼日利亚（非洲最大经济体）几个非洲国家，成为 ADAPT 的首批试验国

ADAPT 是 非洲大陆自贸区数字化进程的一部分，覆盖 54 个国家，13亿 人口，GDP 约 3.4 万亿美元

1️⃣ ADAPT 要做什么？

1、数字身份：给企业、个人、商品发布电子许可凭证

2、跨境数据交换：让原产地证明、海关申报、物流信息在不同国家间，无缝流转

3、跨国支付互通：让不同国家的支付系统互联互通，并同步测试稳定币的跨境监管框架

而 IOTA 正是为 以上三层，提供「账本层」服务

2️⃣ 可能是获得最多 政府合作 的区块链项目

此次也不是 IOTA 的第一次政府级合作，曾经参与 TradeMark Africa 合作改造东非贸易走廊

在英国，其 TWIN 项目由政府派驻 4 名官员全职参与 12 个月，试点显示供应链数据可比传统方式提前约 20 小时抵达边境

在欧盟，它参与的区块链 PCP 项目已完成第三阶段

3️⃣ 值得关注的 稳定币 发展暗线

ADAPT 中有一个容易被忽略的细节，三国将同步测试「稳定币」跨境监管框架

美国 Genius 法案，香港稳定币调理，欧盟 MiCA 等主要经济体都在落地稳定币

新兴市场的稳定币使用增长更加显著，南非洲的稳定币交易占比，长期位居全球前列

IOTA 在这个节点把 "基础设施层" 和 "支付层" 放进同一个项目里跑测

如果可以跑通，IOTA 未来的商业化路径会更清晰

[IOTA @iota]

The IOTA standard? High performance & low impact.

We’ve built a powerful, energy-efficient network that drives scalable digital innovation without the heavy carbon footprint.

See the data and tech behind our green infrastructure here: https://t.co/vHnvsIuBx4

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

IOTA is explicitly connected to one of the five core pillars behind AfCFTA implementation.

🔥🔥In the WEF’s May 2026 AfCFTA implementation paper, ADAPT is not treated as a side project. It appears as Pillar 3 of the Forum Friends of the AfCFTA framework: digital trade infrastructure.

This is an implementation-focused paper on how Africa’s free trade area moves from legal ambition to operational reality: customs, standards, cross-border data, NTBs and trade corridors.

And ADAPT is being developed with the @AfCFTA Secretariat, WEF, Tony Blair Institute and IOTA Foundation, to build interoperable digital identity, cross-border data exchange and payment infrastructure for African trade.

IOTA... from narrative to infrastructure.📄👇
https://t.co/JQrHHHbq0j

#IOTA #ADAPT #AfCFTA #TWIN #WEF @InstituteGC

[IOTA @iota]

[ICYMI Kenya, Nigeria, and Morocco are now implementing ADAPT, building shared digital infrastructure for intra-African trade under the @AfCFTA.

[IOTA @iota]

@DomSchiener @wkforum Watch the full interview, courtesy of Maeil Business Newspaper: https://t.co/L5dsyoQjvy

[moon.iota @mooniota]

Africa’s digital trade future is being presented at CNBC.

@iota is sitting inside the ADAPT framework.

Alban Jackohango senior advisor from the Tony blair institute on @cnbcafrica

➜ 🇿🇦 South africa is gonna be onboarded soon

➜ Meetings with Nigerian stakeholders starting next week

➜ starting to implement the adapt framework in those three countries (Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria)

➜ last 6 months was project designing and managment so we can "hit the road" beginning second half of this year

➜ ADAPT country implementation forum
goverment and private sector will come together to implement this digital and regulatory sandboxes

➜ main goal of the sandbox: define the usecase and technology frameworks

➜ planned to launch this forums end of June for the three countries

➜ why those countries were choosen first:

1. Regional balance representing every corner of Africa

1-3 additional countries in central and souther africa are possible to represent the whole continent

2. trade activity between those countries are already very active

➜ many countries were interested to be among the first pilot countries

➜ Three countries were choosen to create a blueprint and expand rapidly across the continent

➜ Initially 6 countries were planned for the pilots

➜ But for now three countries were choosen to reduce complexity and start faster
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This is how continental digital trade infrastructure starts: small enough to move fast, big enough to become the blueprint.

[IOTA @iota]

"We're a blockchain company - but our main partners are governments."

@DomSchiener at the @wkforum

[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

I can’t recommend this episode enough if you’re keen to know more about the future of digital trade in Africa.

They name a few countries who must be contenders for wave 2 of #ADAPT and a strong hint that Egypt 🇪🇬 will start a pilot soon.
#IOTA #TWIN #TLIP #PYRAMIDSCHEME