IOTA is now finally accessible in the 🇺🇸
Thanks to the integration with @UpholdInc US users can now buy and hold (soon stake) IOTA tokens on Uphold, one of the OG exchanges in the space!
More market access
More exchanges
More liquidity
Let's move IOTA forward
Africa is the future of global trade 🌍
Led by @AfCFTA, in partnership with @IOTA, @WEF & @InstituteGC, ADAPT is building a public digital infrastructure connecting Africa with seamless cross-border trade, instant payments & secure digital identities.
One network. All of Africa.
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.
$IOTA just went from crypto project to continental infrastructure
Dominik Schiener on @CNBC
➜ Doubling intra-African trade
➜Border clearance: 24h ➜ 30min
➜ Kenya live, 3 more nations next year
➜ $23B in value flows
You wanted real-world adoption?
Here’s an entire continent doing it live on CNBC
Follow before you start calling it “luck.”
🚨 No one following blockchain tech should miss this Panel Discussion — it shows exactly where IOTA is taking global trade next.
A glimpse into how it’s about to optimize and transform international commerce for real. 🎥 (video below)
No hype. No sushi parties. Just the real-world tokenization of critical minerals — copper, lithium, tantalum — powered by IOTA’s DLT.
On stage:
💠 James Rilett (@rilett_jam13184), Founder of Salus Platform (@salusplatform)
💠 Dominik Schiener (@DomSchiener), Co-Founder & Chairman of the IOTA Foundation
💠 Trevor, Co-Founder of SALUS
💠 Tom James, CEO & Co-Founder of TradeFlow Capital Management (@TradeflowM)
💠 Ayad Butt, Senior Executive Officer at Zodia Markets (Standard Chartered)
This isn’t DeFi — it’s RealFi, a system delivering instant liquidity for miners, trustless trade finance, and verifiable cargo ownership on-chain. In short, Web3 solving trillion-dollar problems.
And during the debate, they dropped these TOP 10 quotes that only hint at how gigantic this project really is 👇
1️⃣ “We can pay a miner in Rwanda in 30 minutes — not in two weeks.”
2️⃣ “In the middle of the jungle in Uganda, a shipment can be as secure as in Singapore.”
3️⃣ “We didn’t build hardware. We bought it off Amazon and plugged it into IOTA.”
4️⃣ “Critical minerals like lithium and copper are being tokenized. Each shipment becomes a digital asset.”
5️⃣ “The global trade of minerals still runs on paper and red stamps. A comma can cost $50,000 a day.”
6️⃣ “The world’s financial system doesn’t lack money — it lacks trust.”
7️⃣ “Tokenization isn’t a buzzword. It’s the only way for an African miner to get global funding without a London bank.”
8️⃣ “The global trade finance gap is $5 trillion. SALUS and IOTA are closing it — with code.”
9️⃣ “If an NFT can legally represent a cargo of lithium, we’ve forever changed the meaning of ownership.”
🔟 “Blockchain stops being hype when it pays invoices.”
This is not a concept — it’s IOTA infrastructure already operating in real-world trade, delivering trust, liquidity, and digital identity, all verified on-chain. 🌍
The future of commodity finance is already tokenized — and IOTA is emerging as the technological layer underpinning the global trade networks of the 21st century.
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https://t.co/lyZWkzHFqm
#IOTA #Salusplatform #TOKEN2049 #DeFi #Blockchain #RWA #DeFi #RealFi
🗡️ Attention Crusaders
🛡️ Lost Crusader arrives soon on the @iota . Enjoy true digital ownership, on-chain rewards and epic Web3 gameplay.
⚔️Ready to join the crusade?
Yeah bruhs,@McKinsey basically just dropped a research note saying: you were right the whole time.
The world is in increasingly more need of metals: copper, steel and aluminium.
Commodity prices would have to rise by 16-29% in order to make the required investments worthwhile.
The global demand keeps on surging while African nations are imposing export controls to spur national processing of these goods.
In short the problem presents itself somewhat like this:
◼️Global demand will drastically exceed supply by 2035
◼️TradFi is hesitant to invest in small & medium scale mining operations
◼️Political headwind is adding to global trade complexity and cost
Capital is needed but TradFi is moving too slow and rigid.
@iota, with partners such as @salusplatform, allows to ease all these painpoints, allowing miners access to funding and DeFi investors a chance to generate yield in the real world.
Every shipment becomes a digital twin, tracked on-chain, verifiable from origin to destination. Easier times for importers / exporters ahead.
We’re setting up the rails for global trade and you’re still early to the journey.
The real ignition point comes when real yield hits, backed by real-world opportunities.
Generating yield on @IOTA isn’t just DeFi — it’s literally helping keep iPhone prices in check 🕶️
When you throw a ball at a wall, you can be sure it will bounce back at you.
You would be extremely surprised if the ball suddenly appeared on the other side of the wall. In quantum mechanics this type of phenomenon is called tunnelling and is exactly the type of phenomenon that has given it a reputation for being bizarre and unintuitive.
The 2025 #NobelPrize laureates in physics John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand. Their superconducting electrical system could tunnel from one state to another, as if it were passing straight through a wall. They also showed that the system absorbed and emitted energy in doses of specific sizes, just as predicted by quantum mechanics.
Salus is in @SPGCI 🚀
Stablecoins + @iota aren’t “coming soon” they’re already financing tantalum, tin & niobium shipments direct from Africa to global markets.
$250m flows identified today → $1bn+ by 2026.
RWAs with actual cargo moving.
https://t.co/yZJ3ic87ez
#RWAs #Web3 #DigitalAssets #IOTA #CriticalMinerals
Trade isn’t just about goods, it’s about data. GLEIF & @IOTA are exploring how #LEI & #vLEI can make digital identities interoperable across ecosystems, powering trusted flows of information in global trade.
A step toward digital public infrastructure for all.
@TWINGlobalOrg
The World Economic Forum (@wef) highlights that @iota's digital trade initiative could slash global trade costs by 25%, potentially unlocking $10 trillion in new trade value worldwide.
$IOTA is one of the most undervalued tokens out there now.
Source: https://t.co/B1qQ8q1C6i