A recent visit to the UK’s largest inland border facility at Sevington Inland Border Facility highlights a growing shift toward digital infrastructure in global trade, with the IOTA Foundation playing a central role. The engagement focused on integrating the Trade Worldwide Information Network (TWIN) with emerging AI-driven systems designed to streamline customs and logistics processes.…

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Key Takeaways What happened: IOTA’s Expert Advisory Board met at Aston University to discuss how collaboration with TWIN can support UK businesses and real-world trade digitalization. Why it matters: The update reinforces IOTA’s push to make TWIN a serious piece of digital trade infrastructure, not just a blockchain pilot. Bull case: This kind of expert…

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IOTA has entered 2026 with a much clearer strategic direction, and its latest quarterly update shows the project is now fully centered on one primary objective: making TWIN the leading digital infrastructure for global trade. In its Q1 2026 progress report, IOTA said it has aligned its internal resources around operationalizing trade-related blockchain infrastructure, with…

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IOTA says 0.5 tons of tantalum have been tokenized and verified on its mainnet, a small but concrete example of how blockchain infrastructure is beginning to move beyond theory and into real trade finance workflows. The asset was highlighted through Salus, a platform building on IOTA for the financing and digitization of critical mineral trade.…

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IOTA is increasingly positioning itself around real-world blockchain infrastructure, and its latest network metrics suggest that the project is trying to back that narrative with stronger fundamentals. A recent overview shared by Luganodes, one of IOTA’s genesis validators, outlined the network’s current staking participation, validator count, staking rewards, and broader infrastructure positioning as adoption efforts…

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IOTA is increasingly being positioned as infrastructure for real-world trade, and the latest signal comes from the healthcare and medical device sector. This week, the TWIN Foundation said its team joined Imperial College London for a roundtable focused on UK medical device exports, where one issue stood out clearly: proving regulatory compliance across different international…

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IOTA is once again in one of those moments where the headline sounds brutal, the spin sounds strategic, and the real story sits somewhere in the uncomfortable middle. The social-media controversy began after claims circulated that the IOTA Foundation was making sweeping layoffs—supposedly slashing around 35% of staff and gutting areas like community, growth, dev…

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