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🇰🇷 Thanks to Maeil Business Newspaper (MK) and journalist Lee Jonghwa for featuring how IOTA is helping digitize global trade documents with @TWINGlobalOrg. Read here: mk.co.kr/en/stock/11951468

The Global Trade Infrastructure IOTA, is on Global Trade News Magazine!!! @IOTA is now on the mainstream media, Read how $IOTA is unlocking blockchain’s full potential in one of the largest untapped markets of the global economy: the $35 trillion global trade sector.

Reuters says $IOTA is pushing deeper into $35 Trillion global trade in 2026 Trade today needs tons of paperwork, many middlemen, and slow checks. This causes delays, fraud, and expensive financing. IOTA’s report says even small improvements could unlock huge value worldwide. When you fix how trade works, you fix how the world moves goods This is big, slow money finally upgrading its system

[ICYMI] IOTA and Sui are now connected! Liquor Bridge by LiquidLink is live on testnet, enabling seamless cross-chain transfers with LayerZero tech. Here's what it means for the future of interoperability 👇

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AFCFTA x $IOTA on WEF

Summary of the actual IIP-Discussion State: ➡️ Dynamic Minimum Commission based on the Validator's Voting Power per Epoch Author: DLT.GREEN (posted January 16–22, 2026) Status: Draft (open discussion, strong validator and community support) ➡️ Core Proposal The IIP proposes a dynamic minimum commission for IOTA validators, automatically set to their voting power percentage (VP%) at the start of each epoch. This change applies only at epoch boundaries in the dynamic committee model. ➡️ Motivation Low or zero-commission validators attract excessive stake, leading to concentration of voting power, unsustainable economics for smaller validators, and reduced decentralization. The mechanism discourages "fee dumping" by large validators while preserving their ability to set higher commissions. ➡️ Expected Impact Redirects stake toward smaller/mid-sized validators → improves diversity and sustainability. Minimal effect on most validators (e.g., snapshot analysis showed only 6 of 73 affected). Backward compatible, simple implementation (just a max() check), no new security risks. ➡️ Community Discussion & Feedback Strong support for the original proposal from numerous validators and community members (e.g., TokenLabs.Network, iotacreamies, Azeuh/Meria, AngelBlock, Nansen, Nightly, P2P.ORG, Blockscope, Stakin, NODERS, Nodes.Guru, Kiln and others).Praised for promoting decentralization, fair competition, and long-term network health without over-regulation. Alternatives suggested (e.g., hybrid models with fixed caps at 5%, piecewise functions, or steeper curves above certain VP thresholds) but largely rejected by the author and community for: Penalizing small validators, reducing flexibility, over-intervening in incentives. ➡️ A community survey showed ~41% of responding validators (representing significant stake) fully supporting the original version. Some concerns raised (e.g., potential circumvention via rebates, impact on business models, or preference for reward adjustments instead) but addressed as insufficient to outweigh benefits. ➡️ Consensus leans heavily toward adopting the original linear dynamic model (minimum = VP%) as the best balance. ➡️ The discussion is active and positive, awaiting formal review/feedback from the IOTA Protocol Research team and Foundation. Overall, the proposal is viewed as a lightweight, effective guardrail for decentralization.

This announcement is for you, innovators and builders! 📢🏗️ 200 FREE spots for starter to pro devs! Join now for the first ONLINE European Hackathon powered by @masterz87148 and @iota ! Build what the future needs! Application is until January 31,2026 x.com/masterz87148/status/20…

The "Digital Euro" isn't even Blockchain based, it is a centralized system controlled by the banks to make inter-bank settlement easier. Retail access is strictly limited. The only ones who get empowered by this "innovation" are the established banks, not citizens across Europe. We need financial innovation that is aimed at empowering our citizens, by giving them actual digital currencies (aka EUR-backed stablecoins) to make it possible for easily transact with our global digital financial ecosystem and get faster and cheaper access to financing. Europe needs to finally embrace technology as its most important agenda point. Provide significant financial support for the amazing companies and talent we already have here; prioritize the adoption of new technologies across all parts of government and force enterprises to finally adapt or face penalties (why the hell do I still have a fax machine in Germany?); make it an agenda point that technologists should advice in defining how technology should be adopted, not distant regulators and policy makers.

🇬🇧 UK Cabinet Office x $IOTA Four government staff have been seconded to IOTA to help scale live trials with the UK government. Expansion planned to more EU countries and broader trade consignments In the UK, the Cabinet Office’s Border Strategy team has been quietly testing TWIN to fix one of the hardest problems in trade: UK–EU freight. Between 2024 and 2025, 2,000 poultry consignments from Poland to the UK were tracked directly on IOTA Giving authorities earlier access to cleaner data, real-time shipment visibility, and smoother border flow. IOTAs influence reacher far beyond Africa

👀This update enables Passkey authentication on @iota Testnet! github.com/iotaledger/iota/r…

IOTA has been shipping a lot these last months 🚢 Explore the IOTA Product Suite for builders: Smart Contracts, Identity, Notarization & more. Your discovery portal for all the docs, SDKs, and resources you need to start building. iota.org/products/product-su…

Thanks to @IotaGives for integrating @iotanames — you can now gate @IOTA airdrops so only domain holders can claim. I’m dropping a small one first for everyone to try. 感謝 @IotaGives  整合 @iotanames ，現在可以將 @IOTA空投 設定成只有域名持有者才能認領了，我先發一小包讓大家體驗一下 iota.gives/Ltuf2zAo

Worth a look. 👁️👁️ The Digital Product Passport demo shows how @IOTA fits into real trade workflows …not just slides and promises.

Europe’s Web3 builder ecosystem keeps moving forward. @masterz87148 × IOTA are launching a fully online hackathon (Feb–Mar 2026) that starts with guided learning and leads to building real, production-ready Web3 products: open to builders at every level.

🔥 What IOTA signaled back in December is no longer speculation — it’s now boiling. Negotiations with several ASEAN countries are starting to bear fruit, and the momentum is becoming impossible to ignore 🚀 This won’t come as a single announcement or a one-shot mega deal. This is a real fight, slow and structurally complex. ASEAN is not a monolith. Some countries operate with multiple layers of government, overlapping authorities, parallel ministries, and fragmented regulatory powers. Progress often means multiple negotiations within the same country — not one table, but many. Nothing here is simple. Nothing is automatic. And yet, progress is happening: 💎 Some authorities are already signing 💎 Others are locking regulatory frameworks 💎 Others have clear timelines in motion The agreements won’t arrive all at once. They will come country by country, case by case, structure by structure. And yes — this is being fought hard, on every front. A reminder for those still underestimating it 👀ASEAN represents more than 650 million people. One of the most dense, productive, and strategic regions on the planet. This is not the periphery. This is the core. And here’s a detail many still overlook: several ASEAN countries already operate under some of the most advanced legal frameworks in the world for tokenization and RWAs. Pragmatic, infrastructure-ready legislation. Unique regulatory environments, designed for real adoption — not theory. If anyone thought AfCFTA was the final destination, they were wrong. It was only the beginning. We already speculated months ago about negotiations underway with Vietnam. The question now isn’t whether they exist. The real question is 👇 Is Vietnam the country with the most advanced negotiations? Or is there another one, with equally mature negotiation tables and a well-defined timeline, moving in parallel? Mmmmm… The pieces are being positioned ♟️ And not all of them are visible yet. #IOTA #ASEAN #AfCFTA #RWA #Vietnam

In my 15 year career in crypto, I’ve seen our industry go through cycles of hype, noise and speculation, but also genuine, exciting and impactful innovation. One of the most important lessons is that you will only prevail in this market if you have profound conviction. We have been on the market for 10 years with IOTA. It has certainly been a wild ride, with extreme highs and lows, but one thing has never changed: Our commitment to bring the real world onchain. I am proud to share the IOTA Manifesto with you all, our blueprint for how we are moving beyond the speculative crypto markets to conquer a Blue Ocean opportunity worth $35 Trillion: Global Trade. With this manifesto, I wanted to detail exactly how we are executing our strategy of full vertical integration—from trade digitization to digital identity and trade finance. We have an incredibly exciting but also challenging journey in front of us. Together with our partners and our ecosystem we are here to build the technologies that will create real positive change around the world. Manifesto website: manifesto.iota.org/ Long version of the Manifesto: blog.iota.org/iota-manifesto…

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