- ADAPT puts IOTA's technology at the heart of trade digitization in Africa.
- IOTA is gaining practical relevance as the network approaches real-world deployment in large-scale public infrastructure.
IOTA Foundation co-founder Dominic Schiener reiterated his bold vision to reshape Africa's trade landscape through the African Public Infrastructure for Digital Access and Trade (ADAPT). Speaking after the initiative's recent launch activities in Johannesburg, Shiner noted the growing momentum among public and private partners and described ADAPT as a pragmatic response to long-standing structural tensions in cross-border African trade.
Shiner highlighted that the collaboration with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Research and the World Economic Forum reflects common goals, including building a neutral and public digital backbone for commerce, digital identity and payments across the continent. AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene identified this initiative as a turning point, saying:
This commitment is fundamental to our vision to create an inclusive and integrated continental market. This is a blueprint for the digitalization and modernization of trade in Africa, a system that replaces fragmentation with integration, friction with trust, and inefficiency with scale.
Mr. Mene further explained that ADAPT directly addresses the years of duplicative compliance, disconnected systems, and slow logistics that have weighed on African businesses.
IOTA’s strategy for African trade with ADAPT
As previously reported, IOTA will provide the distributed ledger infrastructure that underpins ADAPT's digital framework. The network is designed to link identity credentials, trade data, and financial rails into a single shared system, allowing governments, ports, customs, and businesses to interact with each other with fewer technical and administrative barriers.
Image source: https://blog.iota.org/adapt-africa-digital-trade/
Besides ADAPT, IOTA has made two recent moves that strengthen its real-world position. First, network interoperability has been expanded through mainnet integration with LayerZero and Stargate, enabling cross-chain asset and data transfers with major blockchains and supporting complex transaction workflows. Second, BitGo and Zodia Custody have added regulated support for IOTA tokens, making it easier for large investors and enterprise use cases to participate, as well as improving custodial access for institutions.
IOTA’s broader impact and prospects
According to official projections, ADAPT could double intra-African trade by 2035, increasing annual trade by more than $70 billion and generating approximately $23.6 billion in economic activity annually. These benefits significantly reduce the cost and time of moving goods across borders and increase transparency and trust between trading partners.
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