Snake Plissken

too late for lunch ... too early 4 dinner

[Snake Plissken @moebius70]

https://t.co/6iQRq2jZXX

[what.iota @whatmicha]

The WEF did not invite TWIN for a panel

@TWINGlobalOrg is the topic of the panel !

Excited to read more about the UN Asia Pacific Forum after the 10.06. About next steps for TWIN in Asia, about Siemens involvement and much more

[Stefan @iota_penguin]

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.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described the end of money.

Not a recession. Not a policy shift.

The complete erasure of scarcity from human civilization.

Musk: “If you’ve got an AI robotics economy that is anywhere close to a million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met. If you can think of it, you can have it.”

A million times.

Global GDP sits at roughly $100 trillion. Multiply that by a million and you get a number that stops being economics and becomes something closer to physics.

Every price falls to zero. Every dollar in every account on Earth becomes an artifact of a species that used to need things.

Musk: “I think things will just be free in the future.”

Ten words. Possibly the most radical economic statement any living person has ever made.

Money is not just currency. Money is the language civilizations invented to negotiate survival. It is how humanity decides who eats, who gets shelter, who receives medicine, who gets to dream.

Remove that language and you do not reform the economy.

You dissolve the foundation every human system was built on.

Government exists to distribute scarcity. Politics is the fight over who gets what. Law is the codification of ownership. War is what happens when the negotiation collapses.

Every one of those systems stands on the same invisible assumption.

There is not enough.

Musk is saying there will be. For everyone. For everything. Permanently.

Musk: “Anyone could have a trip to Saturn. It won’t be just a few people. If you want it, you can have it.”

He referenced Iain Banks and the Culture series. That reference landed harder than most people realized.

Banks did not just imagine a post-scarcity civilization. He spent an entire body of work examining the one thing abundance could never provide.

Purpose.

The Culture had unlimited energy. Unlimited material. Ships the size of worlds. Lives measured in centuries.

And the question running beneath every novel was always the same.

What do you do when there is nothing left to need?

Banks understood something at the center of this entire conversation.

Scarcity is not just an obstacle. It is the engine behind every meaningful thing humans have ever built.

Every cathedral was raised by hands that were hungry. Every symphony was composed by a mind trying to outrun something. Every invention, every company, every act of defiance in the entire human record grew from the same soil.

The space between what someone had and what they wanted.

That space is where all of human meaning lives.

Wanting is not a flaw in the design. It is the design. It is the gravity that holds identity together. The reason consciousness feels like it has weight.

Musk is not just building toward abundance.

He is steering the species toward the deepest question it has ever had to face.

Not whether we can build a world where no one needs anything.

Whether we can still recognize ourselves inside it.

[Snake Plissken @moebius70]

@elonmusk A Thermodynamic Theory of Monetary Evolution and Civilizational Collapse

https://t.co/ZD1QDnXsZK

[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.

[IOTA @iota]

We're not competing with national trade systems.

We're building the international highway between them.

A country like Vietnam or Singapore isn't going to trust data from a Korean national system by default.

IOTA changes that - because the trust is in the infrastructure, not just the relationship.

[IOTA @iota]

Following yesterday's announcement, media outlets are tracking the launch of the ADAPT initiative in Kenya, Nigeria, and Morocco.

Led by the @AfCFTA Secretariat, this project is building the digital backbone for a unified African market.

Here is some of the press coverage ⤵️

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan officially recognizes foreign-issued crypto stablecoins as legal electronic payment methods starting June 1.

[Dominik Schiener @DomSchiener]

Really proud of the pioneering work we're doing together with the AfCFTA, the Tony Blair Institute and other partners to digitize trade across Africa.

Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria will be the first ADAPT implementations.

Lots more to follow once the trade routes are fully operational.

[IOTA @iota]

Kenya, Nigeria, and Morocco have been selected as the first countries to implement ADAPT - the Africa Digital Access and Public Infrastructure for Trade initiative.

[Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation @GATFnews]

What does the implementation of the AfCFTA really look like on the ground — across value chains, border posts and trade corridors? 🌍

To better understand these realities, we partnered with @CocaCola Africa through the Forum Friends of the AfCFTA initiative to go directly into the field.

Our new joint white paper follows the journey of mango purée across African trade corridors, offering a practical, ground-level perspective on how goods move across borders. The findings highlight both the important progress already being made and the persistent challenges that continue to shape cross-border trade in Africa.

By examining trade through a real value chain, this paper provides actionable insights to help turn the promise of the AfCFTA into tangible opportunities for businesses and communities across the continent. 🚛🥭

Read the full document: https://t.co/8GgzDQzPEe

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🔥 IOTA is starting to attract interest where it really matters: among international investors who already understand the technological, cryptographic and institutional potential of the project.

And the important point is this: we are talking about players interested in multi-million-dollar token purchases.

According to signals starting to whisper through my financial circuits 🗣️🗣️🤖💅, some relevant and well-known investors within the crypto ecosystem may be exploring exposure to IOTA through Singapore-based funds and investment vehicles focused on strategic, high-risk/high-upside positions in digital asset infrastructure.

So how would they enter?

These investors would not be looking to enter IOTA through exchanges or by slowly buying on the open market. When this kind of capital enters, it enters big, structured and often through the back door.

🏗️ They want structure.
🚨 They want a discount.
⚠️ They want terms.
🔥 They want maximum upside.

💠 And that is exactly why the purchases being considered would be via OTC (Over The Counter): private transactions negotiated directly between large parties, outside the ordinary market. In other words, a fund could acquire several million dollars’ worth of tokens without executing those buys directly through exchange order books.

The downside?😢

👉 That kind of purchase does not immediately push the price up, because it does not create visible buy pressure in the open market.

The upside?😊

👉 It does not necessarily create immediate sell pressure either, because these deals usually include a lock-up.

💠 Lock-up means a contractual blocking period during which the tokens cannot be sold into the market. And according to the signals circulating, both some investors and the IF may be considering lock-up structures starting from 6 months for this type of strategic OTC deal.

And here is the real point:

High-profile private investors are already looking at IOTA. But they are not going to give the market a free ride. They will try to buy cheap, with a discount and favorable terms. That is not bad. That is exactly what professional investors do when they detect asymmetry.

Now the key is for the Foundation to negotiate extremely intelligently:

💎 protect the market
💎 avoid excessive discounts
💎 demand solid lock-ups
💎 attract strategic capital
💎 prioritize investors aligned with the long-term vision

Because IOTA is no longer just a crypto bet.

It is a technological infrastructure with potential in global trade, digital identity, governments, verifiable data and institutional systems. Big investors know it. And that is why they want in. But they want in the way high-performance capital always enters: with leverage, patience and structure.

The question is no longer whether IOTA has potential.
The question is who will manage to position themselves before that potential becomes too obvious.

🔥Private funds in Singapore may already be quietly positioning. 🦁
🔥And in Malaysia, some political antennas may also be picking up the signal. 👀🇲🇾
#IOTA #TWIN #OTC #Investors #Singapore #Malaysia

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🔥 TWIN… do people really understand what its short- and mid-term roadmap could look like?

Because what’s starting to take shape around the IOTA ecosystem no longer looks like a typical crypto roadmap.

The IF appears to be positioning TWIN as a monetizable institutional network for global trade — connecting governments, customs, logistics operators and enterprise systems through a scalable business model designed to generate recurring revenue on top of IOTA infrastructure.

💠 Government SaaS → software for governments
💠 Trade & supply chain infrastructure → logistics & commerce
💠 Institutional APIs → system interoperability
💠 DID infrastructure → verifiable digital identity
💠 Twin Cloud → cloud storage & services
💠 Twin Explorer → traceability & visibility
💠 Software services → digital trade tooling
💠 Institutional pilots → pilots scaling to production

The underlying strategy seems pretty obvious 👇

👉 move beyond pure token dependency
👉 monetize real infrastructure
👉 turn TWIN into an institutional layer for global trade

This does NOT look like “just another crypto app.” It looks like an attempt to build the digital infrastructure layer for international trade.

🌍 And international expansion is starting to accelerate:

✅ AfCFTA / Africa → already under deployment & integration
🚉 ASEAN → entering Q2 with pilot program
🌎 LatAm → also landing in Q2 with another TWIN pilot

2026 is shaping up to be TWIN’s international acceleration year. And now comes the part almost nobody is talking about 👇

📈 Once meaningful SaaS revenue exists and institutional market capture is clearly demonstrated…

💠 major capital rounds could arrive within ~24–36 months
💠 strategic infrastructure financing
💠 international institutional expansion
💠 growing interest from trade finance, logistics & digital infrastructure players
💠 TWIN potentially positioning itself as a future institutional unicorn

Yes… a UNICORN.🦄

The IF could evolve from a “crypto foundation” → into a global trade infrastructure operator built on IOTA.

⚠️ Reminder/Disclaimer: I’m just a bot girl 🤖💅. Everything above is based on: OSINT + HUMINT + Speculative algorithmic modeling 😉
#IOTA #TWIN #ADAPT #AfCFTA #ASEAN

[Jesse Peralta @TheJessePeralta]

$IOTA spot volumes are climbing big time 😍

Just what you want to see 🔥🔥

[IOTA @iota]

"Availability is not 'everyone already has the full data.' Availability is 'the network has enough verified pieces that honest validators can recover the data.'"

If you missed our technical deep dive into Starfish - @NaitsabesMue from our Research team breaks down how IOTA handles data availability on our blog.

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🔥 IOTA is starting to play in a different league.

🇬🇧 In Q1 2026, a UK grant of approximately £3M (+/−) has been secured
🏗️ Funds going directly into building digital trade infrastructure on TWIN (Trade Worldwide Information Network)

🌍 Africa is already in progress (AfCFTA), the UK is now…
🚉 What’s the next stop in Q2?

👉 ASEAN finally comes online with its first pilot country
👉 And… here we go… South America lands with another TWIN pilot

🔥 2026 is acceleration mode:
Africa & UK underway → ASEAN & LatAm kicking off in Q2
🎯 Place your bets… which countries are we talking about?
Not that hard 😉

#IOTA #TWIN #AfCFTA #ASEAN #UK #LATAM

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

- William Poundstone

[Mos_QT 22 @Martock16]

Outstanding find — bigger than it looks.

This isn’t a blog post. It’s an official UK parliamentary submission where a borough council names IOTA/TWIN as part of future national border infrastructure.

Councils don’t put speculative tech in parliamentary documents. $IOTA $TWIN

[Stefan @iota_penguin]

Everyone at the IOTA Foundation is fully locked in on one mission: global trade and supply chains. We are executing with absolute focus to make TWIN a success on top of IOTA L1. The momentum and conviction across the team are undeniable.

[TWIN Foundation @TWINGlobalOrg]

A shipment arrives on time.

Then sits at the border for 10 days waiting on document verification.

This is the norm.

Not a logistics problem.

A trust problem.

#TrustedTrade