@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
You're something else - you'll quote one UN official to suit your narrative?
Have you read the independent UN report 2 weeks ago? The one that determined Israel is deliberately murdering kids and sexually assaulting them in detention?
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
Why Korean Media Is Quietly Telling a Different Story About IOTA
#IOTA
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@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
The Wikipedia entry for Rafah, a city bigger than Limerick, is now in the past tense.
It is gone. Not a single building left intact.
An entire city erased by Israel.
They are the Nazis of today.
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
The trade finance gap across Africa runs to around $100 billion a year.
Real businesses, real goods - but financing that never arrives.
When trade data can be verified at source, that gap starts to close. That's why IOTA helps power the future of global trade through initiatives like @TWINGlobalOrg.
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
IOTA Has Never Been More Useful—So Why Is the Price Near Record Lows?
#IOTA
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@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
What a small exporter goes through to get financing for a single shipment:
Agree terms with a buyer.
Approach a bank.
Gather documents - manually.
Wait for the bank to verify them - manually.
Hope nothing is missing.
Only 39% of businesses can access trade finance on reasonable terms.
For smaller companies, that drops to 35%.
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
🇹🇭Thailand, next. 🕵️♂️🤫 IOTA and TWIN have just stepped onto one of the most serious stages for global digital trade.
In Bangkok, at the United Nations Conference Centre, during the 12th Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum x Paperless Trade Week 2026, TWIN was presented as a decentralized backbone for paperless trade, in a regional forum organized by ADB and UN ESCAP. And here is the brutal part: TWIN was defended and presented, among others, by Siemens from the private sector, by the World Economic Forum from the global institutional layer, and under the UN umbrella through UN ESCAP. 👀🔥
The forum was opened by Thailand’s own Minister of Digital Economy and Society, Chaichanok Chidchob, in an edition focused on Next Generation Trade Digitalization. This was not abstract talk. It was about paperless trade, interoperability, digital infrastructure, cross-border data, customs, trust and Thailand’s connection to the global economy.
Thailand was not watching from the outside. Thailand was setting the stage.
And right there, TWIN appeared: the decentralized backbone for paperless trade powered by the IOTA ecosystem. An infrastructure designed to validate trade documents, certificates of origin, invoices, customs declarations and logistics data through a verifiable DLT layer.
The real signal is who defended TWIN.
The World Economic Forum opened the session. UN ESCAP closed it. And Siemens Healthineers was on the panel with Manish Soin, Senior Vice President Export Control & Customs APAC, taking part in the discussion on how TWIN can be used for digital trade, customs, export control and cross-border documentation.
Yes.
Siemens. Customs. Export control. DLT. TWIN. In Bangkok.
And the other speakers were not filler either. The panel brought together players from trade finance, digital identity, blockchain, agriculture, food safety and Asian regional trade. Exactly the pieces you need if an infrastructure like TWIN is going to move from narrative to real economic rails.
Now look who was in Thailand to present this:
💎 Tim Stekkinger, WEF / TWIN Foundation Board
💎 Manish Soin, Siemens Healthineers @SiemensHealth
💎 Yann Duval, UN ESCAP @UNESCAP
💎 Jirayut “Topp” Srupsrisopa, Bitkub
💎 Lingraj Mahanand, Credore
💎 Tej Mulgaonkar, Drip Capital
💎 Vichelle Roaring-Arunsuwannakorn, GMS Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program
This is about public digital infrastructure for global trade, presented in Asia, at a UN venue, with WEF, UN ESCAP, ADB, Siemens and real digital trade players in the room.
IOTA + TWIN are starting to appear inside its decision rooms. 👀🔥
$IOTA #IOTA #TWIN #ADAPT #WEF #UNESCAP #Siemens #SiemensHealthineers #Thailand #Bangkok
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
$35 billion.
That's how much is lost to freight fraud every year.
In the US alone.
Not globally. Just one market.
#TrustedTrade
[source: ATA Press Release 2025]
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
👀
€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.
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
APC joined @AptosLabs, @Cardano_CF, @iota, @SuiFoundation, and @StellarOrg in a comment letter to @TheFCA on its proposed cryptoasset perimeter guidance.
Our message is simple: the regulatory perimeter should focus on actual financial intermediation, not neutral infrastructure.
That means:
🫧 “arranging” should not sweep in technical or connectivity services
🔐 staking should be regulated where there is custody, control, or intermediation
🔹 infrastructure providers should be clearly distinguished from financial intermediaries
Clear boundaries make for better policy. 📝
Read the letter here: avalanchepolicy.com/en/comme…
#CryptoPolicy #UKCrypto #BlockchainPolicy #DigitalAssets #Web3
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
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. ⤵️
APC joined @AptosLabs, @Cardano_CF, @iota, @SuiFoundation, and @StellarOrg in a comment letter to @TheFCA on its proposed cryptoasset perimeter guidance.
Our message is simple: the regulatory perimeter should focus on actual financial intermediation, not neutral infrastructure.
That means:
🫧 “arranging” should not sweep in technical or connectivity services
🔐 staking should be regulated where there is custody, control, or intermediation
🔹 infrastructure providers should be clearly distinguished from financial intermediaries
Clear boundaries make for better policy. 📝
Read the letter here: avalanchepolicy.com/en/comme…
#CryptoPolicy #UKCrypto #BlockchainPolicy #DigitalAssets #Web3
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
The message is clear: Stop the Game. Ireland must take a stand. FAI must take a stand. The government must take a stand.
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
Australian foreign minister Penny Wong refuses to answer @DavidShoebridge question about Australian woman who was raped by Israel.
She claims the question “disrupts “social cohesion”. Shoebridge answers, “You know what disrupts social cohesion? Selling weapons parts to Israel”.
It’s ironic for @SenatorWong to talk about social cohesion when she clearly places Jewish lives above all others.
- She blocked me when I asked her how many Palestinians have to die before she recognises Palestine.
-She made a comment about 16 syrian children in the Golan only when she was wrongfully told they were Israeli. She never said a word about Palestinian children.
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
We had a great meeting yesterday to discuss ADAPT. Learn more about this crucial initiative in our recent blogpost: blog.iota.org/first-adapt-im…
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
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
A big challenge with enterprise and government adoption in global trade is that the most visible metrics often come last.
Onchain activity matters. But before you get there, there are other signals of progress:
• Partnerships signed
• Trade corridors enabled
• Governments onboarded
• Systems integrated
• Documents digitized
• Compliance workflows implemented
• Trade finance unlocked
Enterprise adoption typically follows a path:
Partnerships → Pilots → Implementations → Adoption → Scale
👉The question isn't whether these initiatives create value. The question is: what evidence shows that a project is moving from concept to implementation and toward scale, even before the full impact is visible?
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
"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.
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
"There's no amount of treaties or standards that can compete with a permissionless global single source of truth."
@DomSchiener at the @wkforum
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
Hi all 👋 Sharing a research note I put together recently — on how the Mysticeti consensus protocol diverged into Sui's Mysticeti V2 and our own Starfish at @IOTA. I used LLMs to help structure the technical narrative and the result was surprisingly clear, so sharing both the method and the content.
The starting point: Mysticeti v1's betDrop explicit certification, let the DAG structure itself act as a "virtual certificate," and push BFT latency down to the theoretical lower bound of 3 message delays. This buys extremely low latency — but the cost is two open gaps: liveness lacks a rigorous proof, and dissemination is fragile at scale.
The two diverging paths
Sui → Mysticeti V2: Concludes the consensus core is already near-optimal, and instead targets the pre-consensus transaction validation that sits outside consensus — optimizing for happy-path latency.
IOTA → Starfish: Concludes the core's dissemination / liveness is the actual problem, and uses erasure coding + DAC to put the certificate back into the core in a cheaper form.
dag-bft-consensus-note.netli…
@IoTADave🐙 retweeted
Really appreciate technical notes like this. 👏
Strong write-up for developers who want to better understand the evolution from Mysticeti to Starfish and the architectural thinking behind both approaches.
Hi all 👋 Sharing a research note I put together recently — on how the Mysticeti consensus protocol diverged into Sui's Mysticeti V2 and our own Starfish at @IOTA. I used LLMs to help structure the technical narrative and the result was surprisingly clear, so sharing both the method and the content.
The starting point: Mysticeti v1's betDrop explicit certification, let the DAG structure itself act as a "virtual certificate," and push BFT latency down to the theoretical lower bound of 3 message delays. This buys extremely low latency — but the cost is two open gaps: liveness lacks a rigorous proof, and dissemination is fragile at scale.
The two diverging paths
Sui → Mysticeti V2: Concludes the consensus core is already near-optimal, and instead targets the pre-consensus transaction validation that sits outside consensus — optimizing for happy-path latency.
IOTA → Starfish: Concludes the core's dissemination / liveness is the actual problem, and uses erasure coding + DAC to put the certificate back into the core in a cheaper form.
dag-bft-consensus-note.netli…