- IOTAs Trade Worldwide Information Network TWIN is an infrastructure for the digitization of world trade that is designed for large amounts of data.
- TWIN was first introduced in Africa because they worked with paper documents, which was extremely time-consuming.
IOTA will launch in 2026 TWIN Technology on the main network, a project scheduled to be completed in Q1 2026. It is expected that after TWIN activation the current transaction speed of 20 to 30 TPS will be a few hundred TPS.
Trade activities in the African Continental Free Trade Area AfCFTA have very high growth potential. It handles over 20 million container shipments annually, and the ADAPT/TWIN system is designed to handle the lion’s share of this volume. IOTA would thus support continuous economic activity on this scale for the first time.
IOTA as the future engine of digital world trade
TWIN acts as the technical basis for WLIP. WLIP, in turn, stands for World Logistics Information Pipelinean initiative in collaboration with the World Economic Forum Davos to promote cross-border trade through the IOTA Distributed Ledger Technology To digitize DLT, speed up customs clearances and reduce fraud, as tested in pilot projects in Kenya and the UK.
TWIN is an open source layer that supports systems such as WLIP and other trading networks. Once onchain documentation begins, a second development phase will enable processes such as factoring and tokenized waybills.
The shift to financial levels multiplies the benefits of the network. These include more liquidity, higher DeFi exposure and greater integration of trading assets. This should be accompanied by a further increase in the TPS rate. Africa is viewed as a “model customer” for other regions.
IOTA is working with the Tony Blair Institute and the World Economic Forum to expand TWIN and ADAPT into a globally relevant digital trading infrastructure.
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