This week, we shared difficult news internally: as part of an organizational restructuring, the IOTA Foundation is reducing the size of its team to lower our burn rate and further extend our runway. These decisions are never easy. Our industry is going through a significant structural shift, and like every serious project we are making hard choices now so that we can emerge from it stronger and more financially independent. We are saying goodbye to talented colleagues who have contributed greatly to IOTA, and we want to thank each of them for everything they have helped build. The purpose of this change is to align our organization more tightly around our highest-priority initiatives and to give us the focus and runway to execute on the opportunities ahead. Most important among them is TWIN - our work to turn our cross-border trade infrastructure into a growing, revenue-generating business that can support IOTA and the Foundation's mission for the long term. Our broader focus remains unchanged: advancing digital public infrastructure, trusted trade, and real-world adoption. If there is one word that defines IOTA, it is perseverance. We have lived through every market cycle, won many battles and lost others, and have always pushed forward. We have succeeded through all these markets because we genuinely care about each other and about the mission we're on. That is exactly why a decision like this is so hard to make - but essential for the longevity of IOTA. We're confident that these changes leave IOTA more focused, more resilient, and built to last.

"I'm looking forward to the day I meet a Ghanaian fabric maker or a Kenyan fintech company easily accessing a continental market - more focused on value creation, not figuring out how to be compliant." Alban Odhiambo, @InstituteGC, on what ADAPT is ultimately building toward for African entrepreneurs.

Today's #TWIN update reveals that @TLIP_io is currently preparing for its full launch by the end of this year. Good progress for @TWINGlobalOrg in East Africa. The full #TWIN update is here: twin.org/post-details/twin-f… #IOTA #TLIP

I made an educated guess in April that @salusplatform was active for critical minerals originating from Rwanda 🇷🇼 and DR Congo 🇨🇩. Today's #TWIN update confirms that was correct and adds Nigeria 🇳🇬 to the #SALUS list. twin.org/post-details/twin-f… #IOTA

Intra-African trade currently accounts for only around 14% of the continent's total trade, significantly below levels seen in regions such as the European Union (around 60%) and Asia (around 50%). A key reason is that trade across Africa remains hindered by infrastructure gaps, limited cross-border connectivity and fragmented customs and border systems that keep trade costs unnecessarily high. @AfCFTA is addressing regulatory and market barriers, while ADAPT built on @TWINGlobalOrg is supporting the digital infrastructure needed to enable trusted data exchange. Together, these efforts are laying the foundation for a digitally enabled African trade ecosystem, with the goal of reaching all 55 member countries by 2035.

I still believe $IOTA recovers and has a real future ahead. I know how the last months felt. The price has been brutal and patience is wearing thin for a lot of us. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But here's why I'm still holding with conviction. IOTA has a real USP, something most projects simply don't have. It's not trying to be a smart contract platform for everything. It's not trying to be the next chain with 50 different maybe-use cases that might work someday. It does one thing, and it does it seriously: Trade. And trade isn't a speculative bet on some future that may never arrive. It has been the backbone of the world economy for thousands of years. Trillions move through it every single day. The crazy thing is how little it has modernized. Still running on paper, faxes, and documents nobody can verify in time. That's exactly the gap IOTA is going after. Not fighting 200 other chains for the same DeFi users. Building real infrastructure for a market that already exists, already moves trillions, and has been waiting decades for someone to actually fix it. Post-Rebased, that focus is sharper than ever. TWIN. ADAPT. Real pilots. Real partners. Price always lags fundamentals, sometimes way too long. But the direction is set, and I'd rather be early than chase it later. 🌀💎

🎬 #IOTA expert advisory board has a wannabe Spielberg in its ranks. @AnnaJerzewska has started a YouTube channel with a 75 minute talking heads epic to mark 10 years of Brexit and its impact on the trade industry. A few familiar faces co-star ➡️ piped.video/cMg0DSQgfIE?t=2452&… #TWIN

Quick note on 🇬🇧 politics. Burnham, heir apparent to Starmer, is already sizing up Blair loyalists for top jobs. If Blairites get trade related portfolios it bodes well for #TWIN implementation because of Blair’s @InstituteGC backing #TWIN.

Here's what the chap from @SiemensHealth who attended the #TWIN session organised by @wef last week in Bangkok 🇹🇭 had to say about it ⬇️. Are we underestimating how far along India 🇮🇳 are on their journey towards paperless trade? #IOTA

This @wef report evaded me until now and if digital trade rule-making is your bag, you should probably read it. Contains obligatory #ADAPT #TWIN case study. reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF… #IOTA

Tears from @Keir_Starmer 🇬🇧 during his resignation speech, as he lists his achievements and realises his successor will take all the credit for #TWIN.

There’s a small but positive 🇬🇧 #TWIN update in the latest @ashfordphealth (Sevington Inland Border Facility) operational update included in the pack for the last cabinet meeting of @AshfordCouncil in April. ashford.moderngov.co.uk/docu… #IOTA ⬇️

Argentina is fundamentally digitalizing its transplantation system. Through Resolución 199/2026, the national authority #INCUCAI is introducing a pioneering infrastructure for electronic signatures within the SINTRA system to make organ donations fully transparent. #IOTA

🇹🇭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