IOTA (IOTA)

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Professional matters should be handled by professionals.

Some people are suited for technology, others for operations; forcing someone who only knows tech to lead a project will only result in chaos.

In this regard, the ten‑year‑old public blockchain IOTA has done a great job.

Jens Munch Lund‑Nielsen, head of the Global Trade and Supply Chain department at the IOTA Foundation and a core driver of the IOTA TWIN project, previously served as Digital Trade Lead at Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company.

No wonder the IOTA TWIN project has taken off; over the past year it has achieved the following major milestones ⬇️

- In May 2025, the TWIN Foundation was officially established, jointly initiated by the IOTA Foundation, TradeMark Africa, the Tony Blair Institute, the World Economic Forum and others, positioned as a neutral global public digital infrastructure for trade.

- Significant progress in Africa: operational‑level deployment in scenarios such as Kenyan flower exports, and collaboration with AfCFTA to advance the ADAPT program, promoting digitalization of intra‑African trade.

- Breakthrough in the UK border pilot: trade data can be delivered to regulators up to 20 hours earlier, and together with Teesside University and the UK government, the digital trade testing platform at Teesside Port has been launched.

- European trade corridor validation: completed pilot verification of over 2,000 batches of poultry trade from Poland to the UK, accumulating real cross‑border data.

If major project teams understood the principle of assigning the right people to the right roles—eliminating CX doing CX and letting tech experts focus on technology—it wouldn't be this bleak now.