IOTA Officially Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Key Global Infrastructure
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Salima has noted on X that the WEF has recognized IOTA for its contributions to tokenizing trade data and creating verifiable digital identities. In the UAE’s TradeTech Sandbox initiative, IOTA collaborated with the FSRA and engaged with the Kenya Revenue Authority and TradeMark Africa. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently highlighted IOTA as one of the key technologies shaping the future of global digital trade and decentralized identity. This recognition comes from the WEF’s new whitepaper, “Advancing Digital Trade: Insights from the UAE TradeTech Regulatory Sandbox,” published in September 2025. Salima, an IOTA enthusiast, notes that the report highlights IOTA as a “technological backbone” capable of linking governments, financial institutions, and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) directly, eliminating the need for intermediaries. According to WEF research, a single cross-border transaction can involve dozens of documents, hundreds of copies, and multiple stakeholders, creating significant costs and delays. To tackle persistent inefficiencies in global trade, the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), and the World Economic Forum have collaboratively launched the TradeTech Regulatory Sandbox. According to the report, “Companies testing innovative documentation technologies reduced processing times from between five and ten days to mere hours.” The sandbox tested solutions across several key areas, including trade documentation, identity and trust systems for small and medium-sized enterprise trade finance, credit assessment, and SME inclusion, as well as digital guarantees and payment settlement. IOTA’s Participation in the Sandbox IOTA participated in the sandbox to demonstrate that its Trade Worldwide Information Network (TWIN), which is an open-source, decentralized digital infrastructure built on the IOTA distributed ledger technology (DLT), can streamline global trade. IOTA showed how decentralized identity and tokenized trade data could transform financing for small exporters, and it takes advantage of the Rebased…
