RT @kowei1995: Had some time today, so I put together a little @iotanames stats dashboard 🤪 A few interesting things I found: • Nearly 3,000 unique .iota names have been registered, with around 450K @IOTA in recorded revenue. About 83% came from settl… https://t.co/ioMyDYqdT1

RT @luganodes: 1/ The upcoming @iota v1.34 release stops charging gas for one class of broken transaction. It catches them at signing, before they reach execution. Here's the change, plus two more pieces of IOTA tech we're watching 🧵👇 https://t.co/2I1T5CA5JJ

RT @ChangeNOW: A crypto with a real-world mission 🌍 @iota is a a blockchain for data, assets and identity. Its TWIN initiative is building digital trade infrastructure for global supply chains. Less speculation. More infrastructure. Swap iota:native … https://t.co/3eMrq0rgdZ

When a trade document turns out to be false, the loss rarely lands on whoever wrote it. It lands on the party that accepted it, often months later, in a different country, with no way to go back. Which is why the document is worth less than the question of who stood behind it.

Collateral is easier to lend against when it stays still. A warehouse can be inspected. A cargo halfway across an ocean is proven by documents, held by different parties, in different countries, on different systems. The goods are real either way. What changes is how much of…

An invoice is a claim about a trade, written by one side of it. Around $1.6 trillion moves through trade-based money laundering each year, and 63% of it runs on manipulated invoices. A lender reading that document on its own is reading the seller's version of events. A secon…

A funder can hold a signed invoice for a shipment that was never loaded. A bill of lading is meant to prove otherwise, and it can be issued for cargo nobody has seen. Without the shipment, the funder is lending unsecured and does not know it.

Trades get queried months after settlement, by parties who were not there and cannot call anyone who was. A record that only holds up while someone can vouch for it is no use to them. What holds up is a history nobody could revise.

The cargo is loaded. The buyer is confirmed. The financing does not arrive. Across Africa, that adds up to around $100 billion a year. What a lender can verify, a lender can price. Proof is what changes the answer. https://t.co/Ob2vUG3Iz7

Trade infrastructure gets noticed when it fails. A shipment stuck at the border, a document that will not clear. The rest of the time it works quietly, and leaves a record behind. That record is what a lender reads before deciding to fund the shipment.