From a brand new tech stack to global government digital trade collaboration: The ecological evolution of IOTA, a decade-old public chain veteran.

After ten years, the public chain veteran IOTA welcomes ecological evolution. This article will delve into its new technology stack after the Rebased mainnet upgrade, its digital trade cooperation with governments from various countries, and how its internal and external dual-circulation ecology connects with the real world to create sustainable value and returns. (Background: IOTA announced the largest upgrade plan in history "Rebased": introducing MoveVM, EVM, and staking functions.. key points at a glance) (Background information: IOTA launched a 100 million dollar ecological fund, becoming the first DLT foundation in the global market of Abu Dhabi) Coincidentally, as Ethereum's mainnet celebrates its tenth anniversary, the veteran public chain project IOTA also marks its tenth year since inception. Ten years ago, when someone proposed to build a decentralized infrastructure to attract users, developers, and even large enterprises and governments to create a completely revolutionary digital world of traditional order rules, many felt it was unreachable, as blockchain at that time was merely a niche term among a few geeks; fast forward to today, blockchain has gradually evolved into the cornerstone driving financial innovation, data security, supply chain optimization, and the digitalization of global trade. With tech giants launching a new round of layouts, governments around the world are rushing to embrace crypto, transforming the once lofty ambitions of blockchain into tangible opportunities. Ten years ago, in the same year that Ethereum's mainnet officially launched, IOTA was born, aiming to create real value by solving real-world problems with its unique focus on large enterprises and government collaboration, accelerating the penetration of decentralization and bringing paradigm-level innovations in the application of blockchain in the real world; today, thanks to the Rebased mainnet upgrade, the launch of the decentralized digital trade infrastructure TWIN, and deep cooperation with government departments from countries including Kenya, the Netherlands, and the UK, IOTA is once again active in the forefront of crypto. After ten years of tides washing away the sand, what is the evolutionary path of IOTA, once a top ten on Coinmarketcap, from the internet of things to DeFi, RWA to the global digital trade base? Faced with a sustainable development ecological blueprint composed of real users, real landing scenarios, and real returns, what opportunities for participation does IOTA hold? Internal and external dual circulation: sustainable ecological returns in real assets and scenarios. As a veteran public chain, one of its key advantages lies in accumulation. After ten years of meticulous cultivation, from Web3 native DeFi to large-scale landing of blockchain in real-world scenarios, IOTA has established a clear internal and external dual circulation system on the basis of pursuing compliance. Internal circulation: a diverse ecological landscape that spans the entire asset life cycle. The IOTA ecological landscape covers multiple modules such as DeFi, RWA, NFT, GameFi, and Meme, forming a complete closed loop from asset issuance and trading to return management, providing users with multi-level, multi-dimensional financial services and innovative experiences. It is well-known that DeFi is the financial pillar of the public chain ecology, and the three driving forces behind DeFi are: DEX, lending, and stablecoins. As the first DEX deployed after the IOTA Rebased upgrade, Pools aims to achieve seamless exchange of on-chain assets, with high liquidity and low-cost trading experience being an important milestone in IOTA's ecological infrastructure. Deepr is IOTA's secure and efficient lending platform, providing lending services for digital assets, allowing users to leverage higher returns. Meanwhile, Virtue, which just launched on July 14, is IOTA's first native stablecoin protocol, allowing users to mint over-collateralized stablecoins vUSD by locking IOTA or stIOTA, featuring a unified stable pool design, fixed-rate lending, and support for flash loans/flash minting, currently deeply integrated with ecological protocols such as Swirl Stake and Pools Finance. Beyond the three driving forces, around the native token $IOTA, the IOTA ecology has also developed diverse liquidity and yield-generating gameplay. Swirl is a liquidity staking protocol supported by the IOTA Foundation, allowing users to stake IOTA to earn stIOTA, earning staking rewards and gaining richer DeFi returns through stIOTA. At the same time, LiquidLink recently launched the IOTA on-chain points system: as a one-stop platform, LiquidLink aims to simplify the Web3 participation experience through intuitive portfolio management, points system, and customized on-chain identity, achieving instant community participation management and fair and transparent incentive distribution. Currently, the IOTA on-chain points system has established cooperation with Swirl, and the Swirl LST points system is about to go live, allowing users to earn points by staking IOTA tokens through Swirl. For every stIOTA held in the wallet, one point can be earned every hour, and points will enjoy multiple ecological benefits in the future. In the future, LiquidLink will promote integration with protocols such as Pools and Virtue, providing more ways to earn points. In addition, the IOTA ecology also features multiple modules such as token asset issuance platform and asset tokenization: the token issuance platform provides comprehensive support for projects within the IOTA ecology from community building to token issuance, supporting quality projects to grow rapidly; the asset tokenization solution provides an efficient and convenient channel for bringing quality real-world assets on-chain, not only offering users more diverse investment choices but also promoting the deep integration of traditional assets and blockchain technology. The internal circulation of the diversified ecology not only lays a solid foundation for the high activity of the IOTA ecology but also, through the synergistic effect between various modules, endows IOTA with continuous innovative power to explore outward, extending from a single financial service to more diversified social and economic fields. External circulation: connecting real scenarios to create sustainable value. IOTA focuses on providing landing solutions for real-world scenarios, empowering cross-border trade, supply chain management, asset tokenization, and more through technology, bringing in larger-scale users and capital for the ecology, and creating real value in real scenarios, providing ecological participants with sustainable returns based on real assets. The most vivid case is the decentralized global digital trade system TWIN, which officially launched on May 8, 2025, in Lusaka, Zambia, and its application in countries such as the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, and Kenya. As the next-generation digital infrastructure, TWIN stands for Trade Worldwide Information Network ( global trade information network ), empowering trusted and transparent, secure, and decentralized data exchange, open source, and compliance through open modular infrastructure and decentralized ledger technology ( DLT ), achieving strong interoperability, scalability, and traceability, and bringing real-time, verifiable data sharing to the global supply chain, greatly enhancing the transparency, trust, and efficiency of international trade. Based on the TWIN technology framework, IOTA collaborated with the UK Cabinet Office to create a border trade demonstration project, efficiently tracking over 900 batches of poultry goods from Poland to the UK between 2024 and 2025, facilitating instant and secure data sharing between global supply chains, demonstrating...