Kurt Tangle

Prof Dave was hosting and says he's excited to visit Japan 🇯🇵 at the end of April "for a round table and report to release... so look out for it". I will Prof Dave, I promise. But please try and get a photo with a better backdrop next time. Should be easier in Japan. #TWIN #IOTA

Earlier this week @UKinJapan 🇬🇧🇯🇵 visited the #TWIN digital trade testbed powered by #IOTA to see it in action. Among the guests was the @iccwboUK's Secretary General. Surprised Mayor @BenHouchen wasn't there. linkedin.com/posts/uk-in-ja… There's more...

BREAKING 🚨 Whispers circulating that USDT0 is officially launching on the $IOTA network very soon... 👀

Another excuse for me to jump up and down and scream #TWIN. I think £746m should cover the costs of getting 🇳🇬 over the line to use #TWIN.

£746m from 🇬🇧 to modernise key trading ports in 🇳🇬. I’d love to see that MOU to see what else it covers beyond steel because I can think of another reason to modernise those ports #TWIN

Déjà vu #TWIN #ADAPT #IOTA

Earlier this week I spotted @iota partner @TradeMarkAfrica supporting a 🇨🇩 trade corridor and now another one linking 🇨🇩 to other countries (@salusplatform will be happy due to its critical mineral trade). Good to see @TWINGlobalOrg steering group’s Dave Beer in attendance #TWIN

@YarakObama11 @Apex_SN1 @opentensor @IOTA_SN9 @iota Don't think so

@Apex_SN1 @opentensor @IOTA_SN9 Is this IOTA linked to @iota

Apex and @IOTA_SN9 are working together again. The IOTA simulator competition launches later today. Join us as we accelerate distributed training.

@cryptowatc62102 @iota @Salimasbegum @TWINGlobalOrg Eventually we'll both be right. But I have a feeling I'll be right a bit quicker than you on this one 😉

@kurt_tangle @iota @Salimasbegum @TWINGlobalOrg this is completely made up but I'm going to say russia and dry goods #iota 👀 no idea if this is true but I'm putting it out there anyway so let's just see 😁 wasting people's time and making shit up is fun!

News from the @iota discord on #TWIN… is news is coming. I think in April. Shall I invent some news in the meantime? How about a partnership involving 🇧🇷 and 🍄 and #IOTA? Very random. Pure guess. Look at me doing the whole cryptic @Salimasbegum thing 💅 @TWINGlobalOrg

IOTA Demo Day Countdown: Is Native USDC the Final Piece? 🧩 Joining Stand With Crypto EU aligns @iota with Coinbase & Circle. This isn't just a partnership; it’s a massive signal for IOTA’s institutional future in the EU. (1/2)

@LinusNaumann Maybe @iota saw my post and made the authors get the @Sciencedirect website updated? A web editor would only update the bit they're told about so other Tangle mentions remain (see pic). If they now vanish, does it mean @iota is *actively* distancing itself from the term 'Tangle'?

@kurt_tangle Nice find! I wonder why in your screenshot it says "IOTA Tangle" (outdated term). Because when I checked it just says "IOTA" (correct term). Did they correct it in between 🤔

🚑 Researchers in Egypt 🇪🇬 have collaborated on a Scalable and Efficient Patient Monitoring Framework (SEPMF). It's a robust, efficient, secure solution for next-gen patient monitoring in both clinical and remote healthcare environments. #IOTA inside. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Don't forget @salusplatform powered by #IOTA is already providing trade finance to 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of Congo for critical minerals spglobal.com/energy/en/news…

What I see: @iota partner @TradeMarkAfrica is implementing @iota partner @AfCFTA's digital trade protocol / #ADAPT which will use @iota partner @TWINGlobalOrg's #TWIN app as the user interface and integrate with @iota partner @salusplatform for 🇨🇩 critical minerals trade finance

@perseverare2029 @Siemens I don't have on-chain data, only the @Siemens press release confirming #IOTA is built in press.siemens.com/global/en/pres…

@kurt_tangle @Siemens 🚀👏 Is there any on-chain data available to support these claims?

The @Siemens team at the Light+Building trade fair successfully introduced the SIRIUS 3RW5 -Z R11 refurbished soft starter, their first product designed according to circular economy principles. It has #IOTA inside. linkedin.com/posts/christia…

Exciting news! @IOTA joining @StandWCrypto_EU is such a powerful step forward for institutional adoption. As IOTA leads the way in digital trade logistics, this partnership creates the perfect regulatory path to bring global trade entities on board.

Our Friends from @HelloOrobo are constantly releasing and building. Front running regulatory framework from (in example) the EU like ESPR and Battery Regulation, providing the necessary Solution for Digital Product Passports And yes we don't only have a nice Screenshot - we as well have a TX 👇👇

When Real Progress Stays Invisible There is something strange happening in crypto. Some projects dominate headlines with hype, speculation, and endless promises. Others keep building quietly in the background across trade, payments, logistics, compliance, and digital infrastructure yet remain almost invisible to the wider market. That is why I keep coming back to projects like IOTA, HBAR, and XRP. Not because I can prove some grand conspiracy. Not because this is about price alone. And not because every silence automatically means manipulation. It is because the gap between what is being built and what the public gets to see feels too large to ignore. Take IOTA. This is no longer just a story driven by community imagination. IOTA is tied to real digital trade infrastructure: TLIP, which was launched with TradeMark Africa to improve cross-border data exchange; TWIN, the open-source infrastructure behind modern trade ecosystems; and ADAPT, a pan-African initiative led by the #AfCFTA Secretariat together with IOTA, the Tony Blair Institute, and the World Economic Forum. IOTA has also said ADAPT is scheduled to launch in its first country in early 2026, with additional rollouts to follow. And then there is Hedera. The pattern is similar. Hedera presents itself as institutional-grade public DLT with a governing council made up of major enterprises, institutions, nonprofits, and universities. On its official site, Hedera says the council includes 31 members across 11 industries, including 16 Fortune 500 companies, while its use cases span payments, tokenization, sustainability, and regulated financial applications. Its own materials also highlight cross-border remittance and institutional asset-trading examples. That is not the profile of a project doing nothing. That is the profile of infrastructure being built for serious adoption. With XRP, the pressure was at least visible. The regulatory headwind was dragged into the open for the whole world to watch. The SEC's own litigation release says the court imposed a $125,035,150 civil penalty on Ripple and an injunction, and that after the dismissal of the cross-appeals, that final judgment remained in effect. Whatever side one takes in that case, one thing is obvious: years of legal conflict can distort public perception, slow momentum, and dominate the story around a network. So the real question is not simply, "Why is the price not moving?" The deeper question is: Why do projects involved in real-world infrastructure, trade digitization, compliance-heavy environments, and institutional frameworks so often receive so little mainstream attention? Because maybe the issue is not that nothing is happening. Maybe the issue is that too much is happening outside the places where retail attention usually looks. The loudest narratives in crypto are often the shallowest. The projects doing the hard, slow, unglamorous work standards, interoperability, governance, trade rails, documentation, logistics, identity, settlement rarely generate instant excitement. But they may be building the foundations that matter most when the noise fades. And that is exactly why this feels so strange. When you look at #ADAPT, #TWIN, #TLIP, or even adjacent initiatives like the Virtual Watchtower work highlighted by the World Economic Forum, you can see that real development is happening across borders, industries, and institutions. Trade, transport, disruption management, and digital public infrastructure are not fantasies. They are active fields of work. So maybe the real story of #IOTA, #HBAR, and #XRP is not that they are dead. Maybe it is that they are understood too late. Maybe they are too early, too complex, too infrastructure-focused or simply too inconvenient for a market that rewards noise over substance. I cannot prove deliberate suppression. But I do believe this: when serious development keeps happening, when institutions keep showing up, when cross-border infrastructure keeps expanding, and yet almost nobody talks about it, then something is clearly broken in the way this market processes information. And that should concern everyone. Because if the market only notices value after the infrastructure is already in place, then most people are not investing in the future. They are only reacting to it once it is too late. What do you think are projects like IOTA, HBAR, and XRP being underestimated, misunderstood, or intentionally sidelined?