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🚨 BREAKING REPORT — WEF & UAE
IOTA and TWIN are stepping into real global trade — and the World Economic Forum together with the UAE has now put it in writing. 🔥
IOTA is starting to hit hard on the global stage at the beginning of 2026. I’ve just read The TradeTech Paradox: Connectivity Amid Fragmentation (January 2026), an official World Economic Forum report co-created with the Government of the United Arab Emirates, with a foreword signed by
🔷 Børge Brende (President, WEF) — @borgebrende
🔷 Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi (UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade) — @ThaniAlZeyoudi
🔷 Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi (Chairman of ADGM)
This is not a crypto whitepaper. It’s global trade policy.
At the core of the document appears TWIN = Trade Worldwide Information Network. They present it as open infrastructure to securely digitize essential trade documents using blockchain and, literally, as a “level playing field” so countries around the world can compete under the same rules.
Here’s the big move.
The Virtual Watch Tower, built on TWIN, is presented as the trustless foundation global trade needs to coordinate without depending on a single power center, sharing only the minimum necessary data in verifiable and traceable formats.
This is the clear bet of WEF and the UAE to keep trade running in an increasingly fragmented world.
If TWIN is that trust layer, then IOTA, as the technology behind TWIN, stops being a promise and starts becoming silent infrastructure for global trade.
The report also highlights regions where TradeTech is already taking shape:
🔷 Maersk, with digital layers for tariffs, compliance, and emissions
🔷 Shanghai Lin-gang, a pilot for connected trade documents and finance
🔷 UAE–India digital corridor, bridging national trade systems
🔷 Bhomra Land Port, Bangladesh, digitized border crossing
🔷 SCZone, Egypt, logistics hub with integrated digital platforms
The document doesn’t specify which exact infrastructures each case is using. But all of them are placed inside the same strategic framework where TWIN is defined as the future trust layer and “level playing field” of global trade. That doesn’t prove they’re already on TWIN… but it doesn’t let you rule it out either.
Maersk? Shanghai Lin-gang? UAE–India digital corridor? Bhomra Land Port in Bangladesh? SCZone in Egypt? 🤯 If even one of these were already thinking about implementing TWIN/IOTA, that would be absolutely insane.
If this scales, we’re not talking about crypto marketing. We’re talking about IOTA becoming real-world infrastructure for global trade.
#IOTA #TWIN #UAE #WEF #Maersk
👇 Full report below
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Big things happening for #IOTA 🌍
The EU-funded MISSION Project is bringing blockchain to Europe's biggest ports — Valencia, Genoa, Piraeus, Trieste, and more
IOTA's tech (@TWINGlobalOrg + @TLIP_io) is optimizing maritime logistics: smarter customs, just-in-time arrivals, real-time port coordination. The goal? Reduce global trade costs by 20-50%
This isn't a testnet experiment. It's live infrastructure across 6 major European ports, backed by the @wef (World Economic Forum), @TradeMarkAfrica, @InstituteGC and port authorities
IOTA is quietly becoming the backbone of global trade infrastructure
At TokenLabs, we're proud to be validators helping secure the network that powers global commerce 🫡
This is why we build here 💙
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@JensLundNielsen@LPGiambroni@DomSchiener@iota good work! 🙌
📈 IOTA is trying to tell us something… but most people only listen to the price.
We’ve spent years staring at flat lines and tiny bumps.
Now we’re suddenly seeing 50k, 70k… and over 100,000 new accounts in a single day —
the kind of curve that only appears when exponential growth has already begun.
For some perspective:
Ethereum, the busiest smart-contract network on the planet, adds 100k–180k new addresses on a normal day.
IOTA is now hitting the same range… with no bull market, no hype, and no major listings.
If you think the market is still asleep — with the price on the floor and sentiment in the gutter —
the chart says otherwise.
Something is quietly waking up.
#IOTA #DeFi #Ethereum
Institutional access to @iota is now live. 🔓
We are excited to provide the secure, compliant infrastructure needed for $IOTA to scale in the US.
Clients can now hold and trade IOTA with the safety of BitGo’s qualified custody.
Read more in their blog 👇
🔥 IOTA is about to unlock the missing piece of its ecosystem: a next-gen modular DEX that completely rewrites the rules.
Mainnet is now on the verge of going live (maybe hours, days, or just a few weeks)… the one I previously called “Project K.”
And maybe that name was just an internal placeholder, not the final one… but what matters is this: the system already exists, and it is exactly what was predicted — a fully on-chain DEX, with no custodians, no companies in the middle, no permissions, capable of merging spot, perps, lending, liquidations and native governance into a single execution engine.
What it actually contains right now:
💎Full on-chain order matching, operating like a real decentralized exchange (pairs already defined: BTC/USD, ETH/USD, IOTA/USD).
💎Dynamic maker & taker fees computed on-chain according to liquidity and market depth.
💎Automatic liquidations and lending based on real collateral.
💎Perpetual futures with PnL, funding, price impact and risk calculations 100% on-chain.
💎Direct integration with Pyth for live price feeds.
💎Professional vault architecture (staking, dev fees, LP, treasury, collateral, rebates).
💎A hyper-modular Move backend designed like institutional exchange infrastructure… but without the exchange.
Why this is huge:
🔶Because it unifies what would require at least five separate protocols on Ethereum.
🔶Because it removes custodians and companies — everything is just smart contracts.
🔶Because perps and lending don’t rely on hidden servers.
🔶Because pricing, funding and risk are calculated in real time on-chain.
🔶Because it lays the foundation of a full DeFi Bank: trading, lending, hedging… without banks, without permissions, without insane gas fees.
Which teams could be behind this engineering? (Pure speculation)
1️⃣ Aftermath @AftermathFi — modular router + vault architecture, risk layers and design patterns that align almost perfectly with this codebase.
2️⃣ Bluefin (@bluefinapp) — specialists in Move-based perps and market micro-structure, with deep experience integrating Pyth into advanced derivatives.
3️⃣ A still-unknown team… which would be even more intriguing.
🔥 You’re looking at the first modular DEX capable of unifying spot, perps and lending in a single on-chain pipeline.
🔥 This isn’t a DEX — it’s financial-market-grade infrastructure… without intermediaries.
🔥 Ethereum would need 3–5 different protocols to replicate what this system executes from a single contract.
#IOTA #DeFi #DEX #Ethereum #Move #Rebased #Pyth #Perps #SUI
👇👇👇👇
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🇺🇸 IOTA is expanding in the U.S.
As we mark 10 years of IOTA, we’re partnering with @BitGo, one of America’s most trusted digital-asset custodians. Starting now, BitGo will add IOTA Mainnet support, giving U.S. institutions a regulated, insured, and compliant way to hold and trade IOTA.
Read more about this major step forward for IOTA in the U.S.
https://t.co/Ep1CT4vOK4
Absolutely spot on.
What's happening with IOTA right now is something the broader crypto space hasn't fully understood yet. While most projects chase hype, inflate ecosystems with VC money, or rely on perpetual token sales, IOTA is quietly building a real economic engine.
And the idea that the IOTA Foundation could become the first self-sustaining, revenue-generating unicorn in Web3 - without selling its token - is a paradigm shift.
Why does this matter?
Because it proves that IOTA isn't just another crypto experiment.
It's evolving into a dual structure ecosystem:
🔹 A public, permissionless L1 with global adoption potential
🔹 A real-world company delivering enterprise and government solutions at scale
The two don't cannibalize each other they amplify each other.
If the Foundation truly becomes an investor instead of a seller, if the network grows independently, and if real-world demand starts flowing into the token economy...
then IOTA may be one of the first projects to break the fatal flaw that has held back every major blockchain so far.
This is the kind of structural change the industry needed and IOTA is actually doing it, not just talking about it.
Exciting times ahead.
"We are very excited to be part of ADAPT and to be a partner for the @AfCFTA and all other countries across the African continent to achieve the big goal of digitizing the entire trade infrastructure", @DomSchiener.
Today is a very special day.
What started in 2020 in Kenya with the challenging grunt work to connect all customs and ports systems to IOTA, is now entering the next phase.
Under the leadership of the African Continental Free Trade Area @AfCFTA , we are excited to partner with @InstituteGC and @wef on ADAPT, a public digital infrastructure to digitize trade all over Africa.
The mission is clear: A single public digital infrastructure to connect all of Africa. Digital trade. Identities. Payments. Trade finance.
The goal of the AfCFTA is to connect 55 countries by 2035, doubling intra-African trade by more than $70 Billion. Border & customs clearing will go from weeks to hours, cross-border payments will be reduced to less than 3% and exporters will get access to global trade finance liquidity. All of this will unlock new economic growth in excess of $24 Billion per year, creating job opportunities & prosperity across the entire continent.
The impact ADAPT will create for Africa is huge - and the work has already started. Kenya will go live in Q1. In 2026 we will connect Ghana and more countries. This will be a long and challenging road, but thanks to the commitment of the AfCFTA and the dedication of our partners I am convinced that we will realize this mission to connect Africa through the most modern digital trade infrastructure in the world.
We founded IOTA more than 10 years ago with the goal of creating impact in the real world. I can confidently say today - after many years of incredibly challenging work - with this announcement and this partnership with the AfCFTA, that we are making our big and bold ideas come true. We are changing the world. The impact and the solutions we are creating with IOTA are real.
I couldn't be more proud to be part of IOTA and to work alongside such amazingly talented and driven team at the Foundation, together with our strong partners and loyal community.
Let's bring the whole world onchain.