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- IOTA enthusiasts have revealed that the mainnet launch of TWIN and TLIP could take place in the first quarter of 2026.
- IOTA is also suggested to handle the majority of the millions of containers moved by the AfCFTA region.
A well-known IOTA enthusiast known as Salima has put an end to the ongoing speculation and revealed that the Trade Worldwide Information Network (TWIN) and the Trades and Logistics Information Pipeline (TLIP) could be ready for mainnet launch in the first quarter of 2026 (Q1 2026).
According to her, a successful implementation will complement other projects in the pipeline and significantly improve transactions per second (TPS) from 20 to 30.
Source: Salima on X
What to expect after IOTA’s TLIP and TWIN mainnet launch
In his post, Salima stressed that usage will increase to hundreds. Additionally, she revealed that even after TWIN launches on mainnet, this will continue to grow country by country. Specifically, Salima predicts that Africa alone will see “an increase of 2000-3000 TPS over the next few years.”
IOTA’s TWIN Foundation was announced on May 8 at the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Digital Trade Forum in Lusaka, Zambia. The idea was to promote a more inclusive, transparent and efficient global trading system.
Most recently, the AfCFTA Secretariat, World Economic Forum, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Research and IOTA joined forces to launch ADAPT. According to reports, this is to ensure faster, safer and more transparent trade with Africa.
Sarma believes that these efforts and collaborations could potentially involve TWIN or ADAPT to handle a significant portion of the 20 million containers moved annually in the AfCFTA region. Most importantly, Sarma claims, this will be the first real-world economic activity to be performed on a blockchain. Meanwhile, she also revealed that these would be “just ignitions.”
As she observes, the mainnet launch will unlock other layers such as “tokenized bills of lading, invoice financing, and trade-backed real-world assets (RWA).” From this point on, she expects the ecosystem to record more liquidity, decentralized finance (DeFi), RWA, and TPS.
TWIN is the ignition, finance is the explosion and Africa is just the first customer. Internally, IOTA, Blair Institute, and WEF share the same mission to transform ADAPT/TWIN into the global logistics infrastructure of the future.
As mentioned in a previous post, TLIP is reportedly already piloting in East Africa. The report highlighted that TLIP reduced trading costs for Kenyan traders by 80% in one of its pilot programs. Against this backdrop, the IOTA community is pushing the staking ratio to 50%, as shown in our recent publication.
