Manifesto Math question for the community and @iota#iota:
Fill in X and Y:
"Every X dollars of trade volume requires Y IOTA to be acquired/staked/burned"
Serious question.
Manifesto Math question for the community and @iota#iota:
Fill in X and Y:
"Every X dollars of trade volume requires Y IOTA to be acquired/staked/burned"
Serious question.
๐ฅ REVELATION. #IOTA Foundation is about to stop being a cost center โ and start generating real income. For the first time, IOTA wonโt just spend money. It will earn it.
๐ With ADAPT/TWIN rolling out across AfCFTA, logistics will start running on a shared digital infrastructure. The real economic unit is not the โdocumentโ but the container. Every container crossing a port connected to the system is expected to generate a usage fee โ often discussed around ~5 USD per container. On top of that, each port or authority that joins the network will also pay a connection and participation fee.
๐ท That payment goes to TWIN as a consortium, not directly to IOTA. But IOTA Foundation sits on the board of that consortium. From every container processed, revenue is redistributed among the entities governing TWIN: the largest share goes to institutional partners and foundations driving the system โ including the Tony Blair Institute, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and other international and governmental partners โ while a smaller but recurring share goes to the IOTA Foundation, often discussed in the range of ~0.5โ1 USD per container.
๐ This changes everything. IOTA no longer depends on hype or traders to survive. Its income scales with one brutally simple metric: how many containers move through the system.
๐ For scale: Africa moves around 30 million containers per year today, and projections for 2030 point to nearly 60 million containers annually. ADAPT/TWIN does not aim to capture just a niche โ its ambition is to manage most of that continental flow by the early 2030s. That is not a pilot. That is industrial scale.
โจ And hereโs the second layer of the story: every container processed anchors hashes and metadata on IOTA, consumes gas and storage, and creates continuous on-chain activity. Two effects run in parallel โ off-chain, IOTA Foundation receives real-world revenue; on-chain, the network gains permanent economic activity.
๐ท This is the real pivot.
๐ IOTA stops being โa foundation that burns money to build techโ and becomes a foundation backed by the arteries of global trade โ starting in Africa, then scaling worldwide.
๐ฅ Not narratives.
๐ฅ Not speculation.
๐ Containers. Ports. Customs. Trade.
#IOTA #TWIN #ADAPT #AfCFTA #RWA #DeFi #Logistics #GlobalTrade #WEF #TonyBlairInstitute
@Salimasbegum@IotaPunks_71 So itโs gonna take until 2030, to be at least self sustainable with the current burn rate. Where should the buy pressure for the token come from? Even millions of shipments can be stored for a few hundred usd in tokens.
@CollinBrownXRP Why were the UAE IOTA token funds sent to an extra developed mixer to obfuscate them?
Are they still being obfuscated?
What are the funds being used for in detail?
When will Dom take responsibility for his mistakes over the past few years and step down?