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Something very important is being brought into existence right now. Bricks have been laid over the last 18 months and now the tech is coming together in a way that makes commercialization possible. If this shit works, it will completely disrupt the economics of training large models and the floodgates will burst open. @Pluralis and @MacrocosmosAI are the only teams who I think can clearly see the shape of this opportunity right now. Agora is a strong first step towards this future. After spending a bit of time on their platform there's a form factor to it which feels "natural", almost inevitable in hindsight. This subfield of training is really starting to take shape. Our IOTA team has been very, very busy for the last few months. Can't wait to share more soon.

Africa’s digital trade future is being presented at CNBC. @iota is sitting inside the ADAPT framework. Alban Jackohango senior advisor from the Tony blair institute on @cnbcafrica ➜ 🇿🇦 South africa is gonna be onboarded soon ➜ Meetings with Nigerian stakeholders starting next week ➜ starting to implement the adapt framework in those three countries (Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria) ➜ last 6 months was project designing and managment so we can "hit the road" beginning second half of this year ➜ ADAPT country implementation forum goverment and private sector will come together to implement this digital and regulatory sandboxes ➜ main goal of the sandbox: define the usecase and technology frameworks ➜ planned to launch this forums end of June for the three countries ➜ why those countries were choosen first: 1. Regional balance representing every corner of Africa 1-3 additional countries in central and souther africa are possible to represent the whole continent 2. trade activity between those countries ar

Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria are the first countries to implement ADAPT, laying the foundation for a shared digital infrastructure for intra-African trade. 🎥 TBI’s Alban Odhiambo speaks to @cnbcafrica about ADAPT, developed by @AfCFTA in partnership with TBI, @wef and @iota https://t.co/aei6jLo1Ed

The first ADAPT implementations in 🇳🇬Nigeria, 🇲🇦Morocco, and 🇰🇪Kenya signal a major shift from fragmented paper-based trade toward trusted digital infrastructure under @AfCFTA anchored on @iota. This is bigger than blockchain. ADAPT combines: • Digital identity • Interoperable trade data • Smart logistics • AI & blockchain infrastructure • Cross-border payments The goal? A digitally connected African trade ecosystem that can: ✅ Reduce trade friction ✅ Accelerate customs processes ✅ Empower SMEs ✅ Modernize supply chains ✅ Unlock intra-African trade growth 👉Nigeria brings fintech scale. 👉Morocco brings smart logistics & manufacturing. 👉Kenya brings digital trade innovation.

Africa Is Building a Smarter and More Sustainable Trade Infrastructure One of the more interesting developments in digital infrastructure right now is happening far away from the usual crypto headlines: Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria have become the first countries to implement ADAPT, a new initiative designed to modernize cross border trade across Africa through shared digital infrastructure. The project is supported by the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat together with organizations including the World Economic Forum, the Tony Blair Institute, and the @iota Foundation. What makes this important is that it addresses real economic problems rather than speculative ones. Today, international trade across many African countries is still slowed down by fragmented systems, paper based documentation, expensive payment networks, and limited interoperability between institutions. According to the initiative, small and medium sized businesses are especially affected, despite representing the vast major

In a bear market, some talk about AI, which still seems like a castle in the sky; some discuss RWA, which still appears to be a financial play; others play with memes, whose ceiling has now become extremely low. Most projects have abandoned the narrative of blockchain implementation and genuine application deployment; everyone loves chasing narratives, like rootless duckweed. As previously mentioned, @iota is steadily solidifying its sovereign-level infrastructure road, aiming to become a public chain that serves the global trade market worth tens of trillions, becoming the backbone of global trade. It started by partnering with TradeMark Africa to digitize key trade corridors in Africa, then gained substantive support from the UK government through TWIN technology, and now is pushing sovereign nations Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria to become the first implementing countries of the ADAPT program. IOTA is steadily walking step by step to realize its vision. 📒First, a brief note: this initiative is launched in cooperation with the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA). AFCFTA can be roughly described as an African version, even an amplified version, of an “EU‑style” free trade market. It currently links 54 African countries, covers 1.3‑1.4 billion people, and has a total GDP of about $34 trillion. Its core goal is to break the long‑standing trade barriers among African nations, gradually eliminate tariffs on over 90 % of goods, and promote the free flow of capital, people, and technology across the continent. ADAPT is the blockchain trade infrastructure that enables this goal. To put it simply: if AFCFTA is likened to a “super high‑speed rail” heading toward African economic integration, then ADAPT is the “new infrastructure project” that lays digital tracks for that rail and standardizes each station. 🤔Then the question arises: why these three countries, when AFCFTA includes 54 nations? It is because these three countries have undergone an extremely rigorous “four‑dimensional assessment”: 1. Political commitment: whether the highest level of government has an absolute determination to promote trade digitalization. 2. Regulatory readiness: whether relevant laws and regulations are prepared to support this blockchain infrastructure. 3. Digital infrastructure maturity: assessing whether the local existing technology level and communications infrastructure can sustain the operation of a Web‑3 network. 4. Private sector participation: through rigorous due diligence to determine whether private commercial forces and enterprises are willing to use it. These three countries meet the above criteria: Morocco is one of the most digitally advanced and infrastructurally mature nations in Africa, acting as a bridgehead between Europe and Africa; Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and a population powerhouse, possessing unmatched economic scale and market vitality; Kenya, meanwhile, is a global leader in mobile payments and a hotbed of innovation with a very high cryptocurrency penetration (I found that the country gave birth to the continent‑wide phenomenon M‑Pay). 💡Another core point to note: the three countries will simultaneously begin testing regulatory frameworks for digital currencies (including stablecoins). In the Americas, the United States, as the cradle of crypto innovation, is pushing forward the Genius Act and related crypto licenses; in Asia, Hong Kong just released the related stablecoin regulations last month.

"Africa has a unique opportunity to leapfrog fragmented, paper-based trade systems and establish digital trust infrastructure designed for the future." DomSchiener on ADAPT, now in implementation across Kenya, Nigeria, and Morocco. https://t.co/i4j9ahncQ6