"Instead of waiting 24, 48 hours to get the physical document once the goods are at the port, they get it digitally immediately as soon as the truck arrives. We're able to reduce clearance time from something that took days to hours - or even minutes."
@DomSchiener to TokenPost.
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. 👇
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.
No amount of treaties or standards can solve the trust problem in cross-border trade.
Trust between countries can't be negotiated.
It has to be built into the infrastructure.
That's what a permissionless global single source of truth actually means.
IOTA Audit Trails is a solution to verify and order record histories. See how it handles access control, capabilities, and verification, from creating the trail to finalizing it.
Read the full story here: https://t.co/l7UVh3SPrJ
🚨🇩🇪 IOTA erscheint auf der offiziellen Website des Bundesfinanzministeriums.
Nicht in einem Blog. Nicht in einer Pressemitteilung. Sondern auf der Regierungsseite zum Zollfinanzgerechtigkeitsgesetz, dem deutschen Gesetzentwurf zur Stärkung des Zolls, zur Bekämpfung von Geldwäsche, Finanzkriminalität und illegalen Finanzströmen nach dem Prinzip „Follow The Money“. 👀
📄 In den Stellungnahmen zum Referentenentwurf erscheint auch die Stellungnahme der IOTA Stiftung, neben Banken, Juristen, Verbänden und relevanten Institutionen.
Das bedeutet: Die Position von IOTA wurde vom Bundesfinanzministerium entgegengenommen und im offiziellen Gesetzgebungsverfahren veröffentlicht. Noch keine Adoption. Aber definitiv kein Krypto-Rauschen. 🔥
🔎 IOTA sagt: Digitale Zollprozesse dürfen nicht nur Papier durch PDFs ersetzen. Es braucht eine verifizierbare Datenschicht für Handelsdaten, Dokumente, Unternehmen und logistische Ereignisse.
🌐 Genau hier kommt TWIN ins Spiel.
IOTA positioniert DLT + TWIN als Infrastruktur für digitalen Welthandel, zollrechtliche Risikoanalyse, Lieferkettentransparenz und die Erkennung von Trade-Based Money Laundering. 🧩
Deutschland arbeitet daran, Geldflüsse im globalen Handel besser nachverfolgbar zu machen.
IOTA positioniert die Infrastruktur, um diese Daten verifizierbar zu machen.
Connect the dots!!!! 👀🔥
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https://t.co/SMY0HCMGLU
#IOTA #TWIN #ADAPT #Bundesfinanzministerium
👣 IOTA Audit Trails: because trust in business records shouldn't depend on who controls the database. Today we're launching a new open-source solution that lets any authorized party verify the full history of a workflow, without gatekeepers, intermediaries, or blind faith. 🧵⤵️
€70M+ of EU 🇪🇺 funding flowing into Kenya 🇰🇪
Now connect the dots.
Kenya is also one of the first ADAPT countries powered by $IOTA.
And the EU is talking about:
Digital identity.
Cross-border data flows.
Trade facilitation.
Digital Public Infrastructure.
Kenya isn’t just getting funding.
It’s becoming a testbed for digital trade.
Excited that IOTA is featured in @GBBC_io's 101 Use Cases Handbook 2026 (Use Case 99). Building real-world impact through @TWINGlobalOrg & more.
Learn more ⤵️
Great to stand alongside @aptoslabs, @AvalanchePolicy, @cardano_cf, @SuiFoundation, & @stellarorg on this.
Infrastructure is not intermediation. To protect the future of UK digital asset markets, we must regulate custody and control, and not the neutral base layers that run them. ⤵️
Our partners include: governments, institutions, port authorities, and trade bodies across multiple continents.
Neutral infrastructure, it turns out, travels well.
Yesterday, I received a delegation from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (@institutegc) and the IOTA Foundation, led by TBI Nigeria Country Director, Obianuju Uchenna and Senior Advisor Alban Odhiambo.
We discussed streamlining cross-border trade through ADAPT (Africa Digital Access and Public Infrastructure for Trade) - a strategic initiative by the @afcftasecretariat to operationalize the Protocol on Digital Trade. This critical infrastructure will lower trade costs, accelerate customs clearance, and unlock new markets for Nigerian businesses.
#WeMove🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🌍🎯 #HMIndustryTradeInvestment #FMITI
Many crypto projects are still struggling to identify sustainable business models and long-term revenue generation beyond speculation and token rotation.
With initiatives such as ADAPT and TWIN, @iota is positioning itself directly within the digitization of global trade.
Through ADAPT alone, we are potentially onboarding 55 countries onto L1 over the coming years. If successful, this could evolve into one of the largest real-world blockchain adoption cases the industry has seen so far.
One recurring question I continue to see from the community is: when will we actually see activity onchain?
It is important to understand that government infrastructure projects and regulatory integrations operate on completely different timelines than typical crypto product launches. You cannot realistically expect mainnet activity immediately after a government agreement is signed.
These are multi-year transformations involving governments, enterprises, customs authorities, logistics providers, regulators and coordination between entire countries.
However, that is also exactly what makes this opportunity so significant. Once critical trade infrastructure and international coordination systems begin operating on top of a network, replacing or reversing them becomes difficult.
We are working on making progress more transparently visible over time and will continue to keep everyone updated as these initiatives advance.
"Africa isn't just catching up - it's leapfrogging, getting ahead of other countries."
@DomSchiener, Co-Founder of IOTA, on the opportunity ADAPT represents for Africa to build world-leading digital trade infrastructure.
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.
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Interesting movement on $IOTA today.
Not just a small market bounce, IOTA is clearly outperforming many of the usual names right now.
Maybe nothing. Maybe the market is starting to notice that something is brewing. ⚡️
In an ideal world, a port can trust where the data comes from.
Not because someone said so.
Because the origin, the authenticity, and the integrity of the data can be proven on-chain.