"Our biggest competition is paper documents. Because trade is a very archaic system." @DomSchiener on the trust problem in global trade, speaking at the @wkforum.
IOTA should not be overlooked in this upcoming phase of utility. 🌐
Only tokens with a clear use case will survive after regulations.☝️
Utility will massively outperform speculative projects.📈
This is an example of clear and proven utility.💯👇
Just a year ago we officially unveiled Rebased - a complete overhaul of the IOTA Layer 1. With that upgrade, IOTA has become one of the oldest Layer 1's without any technical debt.
Over the past year our team has worked on many improvements to protocol. Today, with Starfish, we have completed the biggest upgrade and improvement to the IOTA mainnet.
Really proud of what the team has achieved. The improvements are clearly visible and the Starfish consensus will make IOTA more resilient, scalable and performant.
Let's bring the real world onchain!
It's now official
IOTA has activated Starfish Consensus on Mainnet with v1.21.1.
This is no longer a test, no longer speculation, no longer roadmap fantasy.
Starfish is live.
$IOTA pretty much has less resistance after this hurdle at $0.06.
Break this, and we can move towards $0.08-$0.09 levels.
Bidding pressure is also massive 🔥
Trusted Trade starts with trusted data.
@HelloOrobo is building Digital Product Passports (DPPs) on IOTA to bring verifiable data to complex supply chains.
0.5 tons of Tantalum. Tokenized. Verifiable on the IOTA Mainnet.
This is what closing the trade finance gap looks like in practice.
https://t.co/5ZH1LJiyLZ
@salusplatform
#IOTA's supply chain lead and #FedEx's blockchain strategist were both in a closed-door meeting with the US Dept. of Commerce.
No announcement yet — but TWIN already runs on UK borders and across African trade pilots.
This one is worth watching closely.
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🚨 IOTA is already testing something that could change how RWA are financed.
Full securitization infrastructure is already being tested directly on IOTA. In simple terms, securitization is the process of pooling real assets like loans or invoices and turning them into investable financial instruments. Could this be the beginning of the financial layer of the SALUS Platform? Or perhaps some financial infrastructure for ADAPT / TWIN connected to trade within AfCFTA? Too early to say — but the architecture appearing in the code fits surprisingly well with those kinds of applications.
What’s interesting is that this entire process could run directly on IOTA. What appears in the code doesn’t look like a single financial application, but something deeper: the base infrastructure for structuring and managing real-world assets directly on the network.
In other words, portfolios of real-world assets could be transformed into digital financial structures where different investors participate depending on their risk profile.
The architecture being tested mirrors the classic structure used in traditional structured finance:
💎 Senior — lower risk, first priority on repayments
💎 Mezzanine — intermediate risk
💎 Junior — higher risk, higher potential return
If this infrastructure evolves, it could enable something quite ambitious: turning real-world assets into programmable financial instruments that live directly on blockchain.
That could apply to things like:
💎 invoice factoring and trade finance
💎 SME lending and productive financing
💎 equipment leasing or energy infrastructure
💎 digital capital markets for RWA
Maybe we’re only seeing the first pieces of the puzzle…
But this increasingly looks like the financial infrastructure of a new digital economy being built on IOTA. 👀
https://t.co/LvdPsmKeO0
#IOTA #AfCFTA #ADAPT #TWIN #RWA #DeFi
Starfish is now live on IOTA testnet.
It's a major consensus upgrade designed for the real world, where trust depends on reliable exchange across distributed systems at global scale.
I observe #IOTA activity in Asia continuosly rising already for a while, also met @IOTA foundation members at Taipei Blockchain Week and in Singapore a few months back who confirmed this observation.
On the best way to repeat the success of Africa imho.
2026 will be a turning point for IOTA.
We are sharpening our focus on what actually matters and what no one else in the space can replicate.
We are building infrastructure that solves problems far beyond web3.
And the signal is getting louder. We are starting to show up in mainstream media, far beyond crypto circles.
That recognition doesn’t happen by accident and it won’t stop here. What’s coming in 2026 is scale, relevance and real adoption. 👇
We’re excited to start 2026 in the @Economist_Korea spotlight @DomSchiener and position IOTA as core infrastructure for global trade digitalization, both online and in print... and it's already gaining traction in the Korean mediascape 🙏 To sum up:
🇰🇷 Korea is already leading with operational digital customs and paperless trade systems across logistics, ports, government, and finance.
But the biggest bottleneck remains cross-border trade, where international processes still rely on paper and manual trust mechanisms.
That’s exactly where IOTA and @TWINGlobalOrg come in: neutral public infrastructure to connect these systems across borders openly, securely, and globally.
To our community: this is strong validation of the direction we’re building together.
It's time we raise more awareness in mainstream media about the groundbreaking work we are doing here at IOTA.
We are on a mission to bring the real world onchain. Country by country, we are connecting the world through IOTAs digital infrastructure.
Thank you @Economist_Korea 🙏