Since the launch of the IOTA mainnet in 2016, the IOTA Foundation has introduced a wide range of side projects, experimental networks, and ecosystem initiatives aimed at transforming the protocol from a niche Internet-of-Things (IoT) concept into a full-scale decentralized infrastructure. These include Shimmer, Assembly, IOTA Smart Contracts (EVM), Firefly wallet, the Data Marketplace, digital…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
