How INCUCAI and Extrimian Put Argentina's Transplant System Onchain TL;DR: IOTA and Latin American decentralized-identity company Extrimian have put Argentina’s national organ, tissue, and cell donation and transplantation authority INCUCAI and its 24 provincial agencies onto a live, publicly verifiable digital-identity system on IOTA mainnet, with tamper-proof document signing, and IOTA independently verified every part of it. Somewhere in Argentina, a patient is waiting for a heart. When a match finally appears, a…

TL;DR: IOTA is now connected to Pyth Pro, Pyth's institutional-grade price feed infrastructure, with lower latency, 3,000+ feeds. Part of a network-wide shift by Pyth, not IOTA-specific. Developers on Pyth Core must migrate by August 18 or feeds stop working. A major upgrade in the price feed infrastructure of Pyth, the decentralized oracle network, is arriving for IOTA users. IOTA L1 is now connected to Pyth Pro, the next generation of Pyth’s price feed infrastructure, bringing lower latency, higher reliability, and a…

Welcome to our Progress Update for the second quarter of 2026. This report summarizes the key milestones, protocol enhancements, real-world trade deployments, and ecosystem growth achieved over the past three months.Following the strategic direction outlined in the IOTA Manifesto, the Foundation is fully focused on supporting and scaling TWIN, the open digital trade infrastructure. To reflect this commitment, our organizational structure has evolved since last quarter: engineering, research, design, and product teams are now…

Verify your Workflows with IOTA Audit Trails TL;DR: Business records fragmented across databases and spreadsheets can be altered, backfilled, or disputed. IOTA Audit Trails anchors governed, ordered histories onchain so every record (and the authority behind it) can be independently verified. Available now as an alpha release with a Move package, Rust SDK, and WebAssembly bindings. Every business process leaves a trail. A product moves through suppliers, a clinical trial collects study events, a customs workflow…

TL;DR: Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria are the first countries to implement ADAPT. Led by the AfCFTA Secretariat and developed with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the World Economic Forum, and the IOTA Foundation, the initiative is building a shared digital infrastructure for intra-African trade. Implementation begins now, covering digital identity, cross-border data exchange, and payment interoperability. Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria will be the first countries to implement ADAPT, the Africa Digital Access and…

A Technical Deep Dive into the New IOTA Consensus TL;DR: Last week we published an overview of the Starfish mainnet launch. This post, written by Sebastian Mueller of the IOTA Foundation’s Research team, goes deeper: the technical design decisions behind Starfish, why they matter, and what the first mainnet metrics show. Starfish is now enabled on IOTA Mainnet. The v1.21.1 Mainnet release introduced protocol version 24 and enabled Starfish consensus on Mainnet.That is the release-note version.The research version is…

Exploring IOTA’s New Consensus Mechanism for Global Trade Infrastructure TL;DR: Starfish is a major consensus upgrade that anchors IOTA as resilient, production‑grade infrastructure for real‑world trade. This design ensures the network remains robust even when participant coordination breaks down. By building resilience and scalability directly into the protocol, Starfish ensures continuous operation through disruption, strengthening IOTA as a foundational platform for global trade and regulated systems that cannot…

From 200 Selected Developers to 66 Real Products Built on IOTA TL;DR: The European Blockchain Hackathon, powered by MasterZ and IOTA, completed at the end of March. From 200 selected developers, 66 new projects have been built on IOTA. The hackathon's top 5 projects will present live in Berlin, while the top 10 will take part in an acceleration program by MasterZ and AIO Blockchain Lab, while other top projects will be given access to tailor-made acceleration paths. The European Blockchain Hackathon, powered by…

TL;DR: Orobo provides compliance-grade infrastructure for issuing and verifying Digital Product Passports across borders. Built on IOTA, it creates a shared, auditable layer of trust, helping manufacturers meet evolving international regulations while ensuring product data is transparent, verifiable, and ready for global trade. A battery cell manufactured in China. Assembled into a module in Singapore. Installed in an electric bus in the Netherlands. Recycled at end-of-life by a specialist facility back in Europe. Four…

In the first quarter of 2026, IOTA solidified its strategic pivot toward becoming the primary infrastructure provider for global trade. This evolution is detailed in the recently published IOTA Manifesto, which outlines a vision for a neutral, open, and scalable digital infrastructure to power the global economy. We encourage all community members and partners to read the Manifesto to understand our long-term commitment to digitalizing international trade.This quarter's progress is defined by the transition of the Trade…

Expanding Regulated Acces TL;DR: IOTA is now supported on Bullish Exchange, enabling global institutional access through regulated trading and custody infrastructure. Bullish is one of the few crypto platforms listed on a U.S. stock exchange and operates across multiple licensed jurisdictions with institutional custody provided by BitGo. We’re pleased to announce that the IOTA token is now supported on Bullish Exchange, an institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a…

Mid-Term Milestone of the MasterZ × IOTA Hackathon TL;DR: The Build Now Contest marks a key midpoint in the MasterZ × IOTA Hackathon. 63 teams submitted structured product concepts, architectures, and technical stacks built on IOTA. Submissions cluster around trade, RWA, identity, privacy, and infrastructure. The MasterZ × IOTA Hackathon has brought together teams from across Europe to build new products and MVPs for solutions on decentralized infrastructure.Participants progress from structured learning into hands-on…