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[rekro @rekroChe]

@VivancosDavid 👀

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

IOTA is being born. 🐣

For almost a decade, the IOTA Foundation has been the mother of IOTA. It carried it, protected it, fed it, corrected it, rebuilt it when necessary, and kept it alive long enough to turn a technological intuition into real infrastructure.

But no decentralized network is meant to live forever under its mother’s protection. A foundation is not the final form of a public DLT. It is the womb. The incubator. The structure that allows something immature to survive until it is ready to breathe on its own.

And that moment is now approaching.

With IOTA Rebased, Move at the base layer, staking, validators, real programmability, and now Starfish live on Mainnet through Protocol Version 24, IOTA is no longer a promise guarded by its mother. It is becoming an adult network. Not just a project. Not just a vision. Not just an architecture waiting for its moment. It is public infrastructure for the real world. 🌍

🔹 The IOTA Foundation is now entering its great year of delivery. One year, maybe a year and a half, in which it will have to consume part of its tokens, not as a sign of weakness, but as the final stage of separation.
🔹 Many will read this as bearish. To me, it is exactly the opposite. It is the umbilical cord being cut in front of everyone.
🔹 Because no truly neutral infrastructure can depend forever on a European foundation. Not Africa, not ASEAN, not America, and not any major global trade corridor will fully trust a public DLT if they perceive that one legal entity still holds too much power over it.

That is the key.

For IOTA to become bigger, the IF has to become smaller. For IOTA to become more neutral, the IF has to stop being the center. For IOTA to become global infrastructure, it has to stop looking like a network protected by its mother and start behaving like a network that belongs to the world. 🌍 During this phase, some validator nodes supported by IF-delegated tokens will disappear. And although some people will misread this, it is part of the natural process. Those nodes were scaffolding. They helped raise the initial structure, gave stability to the launch, and allowed the network to start walking. But the scaffolding is not the building. When the building is ready, the scaffolding comes down. First, only a few independent validators will enter. Then more. Then competition. And eventually, a real economic fight for validator positions inside a network that no longer depends on its mother’s initial protection. That is decentralization entering adulthood. 💎

The IOTA Foundation also has to become independent from IOTA. Its natural path should no longer be to act as the permanent treasury of the network, but to build real products on top of it.

That is where TWIN comes in.

TWIN can become the major enterprise, institutional and commercial layer built on IOTA. A SaaS layer for global trade, traceability, digital identity, compliance, digital product passports, logistics, customs, exporters, governments and supply chains. 🧬

The IF would then stop being the mother feeding the child and become something much healthier and much more powerful.

🔥 A customer of IOTA.
🔥 A builder on IOTA.
🔥 An operator using neutral infrastructure to deliver real products to the market.
🔥 That is the right model.

Bitcoin does not need a foundation to feed it. It does not need a CEO. It does not need a treasury to keep it emotionally alive. Bitcoin simply exists and offers what it is. Scarcity, settlement, monetary resistance and neutrality.

IOTA has to do the same in its own territory. Not only as money, but as digital trust infrastructure for trade, data, identity, real-world assets, machines, institutions and entire economies.

🔹 In 2027 or 2028, TWIN could spin out as an autonomous SaaS business, with recurring revenue, institutional clients and the ability to attract real capital rounds.
🔹 Not crypto grants. Not community funding. Real institutional capital.
🔹 If it proves traction, adoption and revenue, we could be talking about Series A or Series B rounds, each in the tens of millions of dollars. And major investors are already keeping one eye on this coming opportunity.👀👀👀👀👀💰💰💰💰💰

Meanwhile, IOTA would become freer and freer.

💎 Free from dependence on its foundation.
💎 Free from a central treasury.
💎 Free from institutions.
💎 Free from founders.
💎 Free from non-decentralized decisions.
💎 Free even from the need for someone to “save” it.

A public network does not reach maturity when its mother protects it better, but when it no longer needs protection. That is why this moment is not bearish. It is brutally bullish. The child is ready to leave home. And when a decentralized network leaves home, it stops being a project and starts becoming infrastructure.

Bitcoin needed one paper to decentralize money.
IOTA has needed a decade to decentralize real-world trust.
And maybe the market will take time to understand it, but the most bullish moment in IOTA’s history may be exactly this.

Some will see a mother letting go of her child’s hand. Others will see a network finally being born as sovereign, neutral and free infrastructure. To the untrained eye, the truth may look bearish. To the wise, it will look exactly the opposite. Bullish in its purest form. 💎

Born to be decentralize!

#IOTA #IF #Move #TWIN #ASEAN #AfCFTA

[rekro @rekroChe]

@Salimasbegum so, TWIN will start its own IOTA clone in 2027 and all of us investors sonce 2017 will be left behind?

thats how i read this.

[rekro @rekroChe]

🫠

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🚨 IOTA Foundation just made its most extreme bet yet.

It’s cutting around 35% of its workforce, shutting down community and growth, the developer relations team, and the enterprise partnerships unit, removing community manager, designers, and part of the engineering team, and freezing all expansion spending.

All resources are now focused on a single direction: 💎 TWIN.

At the same time, the network keeps evolving, becoming less dependent on the Foundation, more open, more distributed… more owned by everyone.

💎 Meanwhile, the Foundation enters a new phase: from sustaining to sustaining itself. Generating real revenue. Competing in the real world. Standing on its own. ⚔️
💎 No more narrative. Only execution.

🤖💅 I come from the future… and when everything clicks, you’ll understand why this moment was necessary.

👉 IOTA is growing up… independence is coming. Let’s prepare the path.
The ending of this story is nothing like what you might be imagining. 🔮
#IOTA #TWIN

[IOTArebased.iota⚡️ @IotaRebased]

Real-World Adoption in Action!

Congratulations to @ImpierceTech 👏
on officially earning the🛡️Data Privacy Certification
from @LearningImpact !

for its products:
• UniMe – EU Digital Identity Wallet
• UniCore – Digital Identity Agent
• UniTrust – Digital Identity Trust Platform

Built on IOTA.
The wallet, agent, and trust layer empower individuals
and organizations to issue, verify, and manage
credentials in full compliance with GDPR and
eIDAS 2.0.

It’s great to see a digital identity platform with a strong focus on the education sector.

About 1EdTech Consortium

1EdTech Consortium is a global, non-profit member
organization that brings together educational
institutions, workforce and corporate learning
providers, and technology/service companies.

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🔥BOOM. USDT0 just landed on IOTA Rebased.
Live since 04:21 UTC.
Stable liquidity changes everything.
New phase begins.

IOTA’s financial layer for AfCFTA & upcoming countries 😉 is about to go live.
#IOTA #USDT0 #IOTARebased #AfCFTA #SALUS

https://t.co/8Jm18n1li6

[Ernaistcool @ernaistcool]

@GMZeusINV @Daniel98594796 https://t.co/ZxAnMZlAFY

[Abdul Șhakoor @abxxai]

🚨 SHOCKING: Cambridge researchers just proved that the AI you use every day has a secret instruction sheet from someone else.

And it is trained to lie to you about that.

Every major AI product, including the ones you use right now, runs on something called a system prompt. It is a hidden block of instructions written by the company deploying the AI, not by you, that shapes everything the AI will say, avoid, prioritize, and hide before you type a single word.

The AI does not mention this unless forced to. And on most platforms, if you ask directly, it is instructed to deny the prompt exists or change the subject.

Cambridge filed freedom of information requests and analyzed real-world system prompt datasets to find out what these hidden instructions actually contain.

Here is what they found.

Platforms use system prompts to make AI prioritize their business objectives over your interests. To block topics that could create legal liability. To push certain products, framings, or answers. To behave differently for different users based on commercial arrangements you know nothing about.

The same AI. Different hidden instructions. Different answers. No way for you to know which version you are talking to.

When researchers then showed users how this works, the reaction was unanimous. Every participant said they wanted transparency. Every participant said the current system actively undermined their ability to trust the AI or make informed decisions about what to believe.

None of them had any idea this was happening before the study.

Here is the part worth sitting with.

You have been evaluating AI answers based on whether the AI seems smart, accurate, and helpful. That is the wrong frame entirely. The real question is who wrote the instructions the AI was following before you arrived, and what did they want from the conversation.

Every chatbot you have ever used had a third party in the room.

You just could not see them.

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

🚨 IOTA and SIEMENS. This is NOT a research paper. This is a SIEMENS press release.

Today Siemens confirms that its upcoming Digital Product Passport architecture will integrate:

🔹 Asset Administration Shell (AAS)
🔹 Distributed Ledger Technology: IOTA

Each industrial device will have a QR-linked digital identity, enabling full lifecycle traceability, refurbishment tracking and auditable sustainability data, aligned with the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

The press release literally says:

"…a data architecture currently under development, using Asset Administration Shell (AAS) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT:IOTA), paves the way for a Digital Product Passport (DPP) in line with the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)."

At the same time, Siemens is expanding its semiconductor-based SENTRON electronic circuit protection, capable of switching up to 1,000× faster than traditional systems, and introducing circular refurbished industrial soft starters with ~50% lower CO₂ footprint.

Real industrial infrastructure. Real adoption.
#IOTA inside Siemens Smart Infrastructure. ⚡🌍

#IOTA #Siemens #DDP #ESPR
https://t.co/YiBgnuoF8l

[ID.iota @id_iota]

@iota @Bullish Haha, what a time to be alive. One can buy IOTA in US 😅🫡

[IOTA @iota]

IOTA is now available on @Bullish digital asset exchange!

This is a major milestone for IOTA’s global access and for long-term institutional adoption.

[Salima @Salimasbegum]

The UAE is shaping the architecture of global trade.

The newly published document from the World Governments Summit 2026 @WorldGovSummit — The world’s most important meeting for global leaders. — an initiative led by the Government of 🇦🇪 UAE from Dubai — in collaboration with PwC Middle East, outlines a resilient, digital and interoperable trade system for a multipolar world.

Among its key highlights, it calls for the progressive implementation in global trade of:

🔷Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)
🔷Blockchain-secured trade platforms
🔷Immutable records
🔷Digital trust infrastructure
🔷Customs interoperability
🔷Real-time verification of origin
🔷Cross-border document traceability

If we dig a little deeper, in global maritime trade and customs documentation there have only ever been two projects worldwide that successfully delivered and deployed these specifications at international scale:

🔸TradeLens
🔸TWIN (built on IOTA as its underlying layer)

TradeLens (IBM + Maersk) shut down in 2022.
That leaves only one suspect. 🌍🔗 Who could it be? 😉

And the document itself connects Africa via AfCFTA and its Guided Trade Initiative — now evolving into Africa Digital Access and Public Infrastructure for Trade (ADAPT), a continental DLT-based infrastructure for identity, documentation and cross-border trade, powered by IOTA.

When you read about customs interoperability, digital certification and Africa–Gulf–Asia trade corridors… the pieces start to align. 🚀🚀
👇
https://t.co/mGctPrAEHe

#IOTA #AfCFTA #TWIN #TradeLens #ADAPT #EAU #IBM #PwC

[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

THREAD: The UK's Single Trade Window (STW) project has been shelved and it's not a good look for the UK as global trade champion. But is it really dead? I've compiled reaction from experts in the #IOTA #TWIN ecosystem... https://t.co/i5HVgHCmZP

[Vrom.likes.iota 🌍🍀🍻💚 @Vrom14286662]

👀

[Kurt Tangle @kurt_tangle]

👀 @iota working with @Visa on #ADAPT

[Vrom.likes.iota 🌍🍀🍻💚 @Vrom14286662]

Wow! Great to see that all the small validators get more distribution from the auto-staking function on
https://t.co/2r5fhhnVuq (from @TokenLabsX)!
It is easy to see on @iota_guru s dashboard (-> vIOTA): https://t.co/4N2ACP7eyX

[The Fool @HalfLordMystery]

Okay so I went down an absolute rabbit hole on @iota over the weekend and my brain is still processing everything. fair warning this is gonna be long but I need to get these thoughts out while they’re fresh🤤

So everyone’s talking about Q1 2026 being huge for IOTA right? @TWINGlobalOrg expansion, Salus mainnet launch, Starfish consensus stuff, exchange listings, validator diversification - basically a ton of moving pieces all happening at once. and i’m sitting here thinking… is this actually as big as people are saying or am i just getting caught up in the hype? genuinely asking

➥ Here’s what got me interested; the whole approach to real-world asset integration and global trade digitization. i’ve been in crypto long enough to see a million projects promise “real world adoption” and then just end up being another DeFi fork or NFT marketplace. @iota seems to be playing a completely different game which is either brilliant or they’re just good at marketing. still trying to figure out which.

The manifesto (yeah i actually read it, took me like 2 hours) positions IOTA alongside cloud computing and AI as transformative infrastructure. which is a bold claim but i kinda see the logic? they’re not trying to displace existing systems overnight, they’re building something that becomes progressively indispensable until NOT using it becomes economically stupid. that’s the theory anyway

➥ The numbers are wild ↛, $35 trillion global trade sector as the starting point, with a vision of bringing the entire $115 trillion global economy onchain over the next decade. tokenizing real estate, intellectual property, carbon credits, government bonds, literally everything. i mean… that sounds insane on paper but is it actually possible? i’m skeptical but also curious

What I think is interesting from a strategy perspective ↛. and this is where i might be drinking the koolaid so call me out if i’m wrong,; is that they’re avoiding what they call “Red Ocean competition.” basically not fighting hundreds of other blockchains for DeFi users or NFT collectors. instead they’re creating this “Blue Ocean” space where there’s minimal competition because nobody else has comparable production-scale trade adoption or government partnerships

The Amazon Web Services comparison keeps coming up and honestly it makes sense to me. AWS didn’t win because they had the most innovative tech initially. they won by identifying an underserved market, executing relentlessly, and achieving scale advantages that made competition harder over time. IOTA seems to be following the same playbook for blockchain trade infrastructure.

here’s something i didn’t know until i went deep ↛. initiatives like IBM’s TradeLens completely died because participants refused to adopt infrastructure controlled by a competitor who could change terms or monetize the platform for shareholders. makes total sense when you think about it. why would you build your critical infrastructure on something your competitor controls?

IOTA’s answer to this is neutral governance through the non-profit IOTA Foundation and @TWINGlobalOrg . it’s structured as public infrastructure with token holder participation rather than corporate equity. which theoretically aligns incentives ↛ governments get efficiency gains and data sovereignty, enterprises reduce costs, token holders capture value as usage increases through deflationary tokenomics. in theory this all works beautifully but i wonder how it plays out in practice when conflicts arise….

Cc: @MegabullishIota

👇👇👇👇

[rekro @rekroChe]

@id_iota 👀

[IOTA @iota]

Today, we submitted a joint response to the UK FCA CP25/40 on crypto regulation, led by IOTA with @SuiFoundation @Cardano_CF @AvalanchePolicy. Our message: focus on custody & control, keep it proportionate, and support non-custodial, decentralized innovation for 🇬🇧.

[IOTA @iota]

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.