👣 IOTA Audit Trails: because trust in business records shouldn't depend on who controls the database. Today we're launching a new open-source solution that lets any authorized party verify the full history of a workflow, without gatekeepers, intermediaries, or blind faith. 🧵⤵️
"Instead of waiting 24, 48 hours to get the physical document once the goods are at the port, they get it digitally immediately as soon as the truck arrives. We're able to reduce clearance time from something that took days to hours - or even minutes."
@DomSchiener to TokenPost.
Every government system that connects makes the network more useful for every other system already on it.
That's the logic behind building neutral, open infrastructure. The capability compounds as more parties join.
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
A normal database can store trade documents. Most government systems already do.
The problem is who controls it - and whether any other government will trust data that comes out of it.
A distributed ledger makes the integrity of the data verifiable by anyone, without needing to
"TradeLens failed because it was a permissioned private blockchain. IOTA succeeded in trade because we're a nonprofit foundation, because we are open source, and because IOTA is a permissionless network."
@DomSchiener in conversation with @tokenpost.
Packaging compliance is becoming a major trade barrier, as missing or unverifiable compliance data can lead to border delays, rejected shipments and lost market access.
@TWINGlobalOrg and IOTA can help by enabling trusted exchange of verifiable packaging compliance data between
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Business records crossing organizational boundaries can be altered, backfilled, and disputed. @iota's Audit Trails anchors governed, onchain histories any authorized party can independently verify, with no central administrator. 🧵👇
[ICYMI] Real-world Web3 utility is here! Catch our interview with TechFlow on how @TWINGlobalOrg uses IOTA to transition global commerce into a 5-minute era. Thank you @TechFlowPost for the feature.
"ADAPT has two advantages that early initiatives lacked - it's owned by neutral, impartial entities, and it has the full political backing of the AfCFTA behind it."
Tim Stekkinger, @wef, on why ADAPT will succeed where others have failed.
ICYMI: The IOTA Q2 2026 Progress Update outlines protocol maturation and technical hardening. This makes IOTA more capable for the people building on it and cheaper for the people running it.
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"A third of the global economy relies on trade. $32 trillion exported every year. And there's no digital protocol that makes it possible for countries to share data across the border - or share assets across the border."
@DomSchiener, speaking with @tokenpost.
