The title of the return of old public chains, I have read in recent years, whether it is 100 or 80. Basically, the community sends out a roadmap and posts a collaboration poster, and after three days of excitement, it returns to silence. I am too familiar with this routine, so when I clicked on TWIN's one-year summary these past few days, I didn't really have high expectations. But! There is no roadmap in this summary. It lists real countries, real ports, and real goods. The TLIP line in Africa processed over 180000 commercial invoices and over 300000 declarations; Using over 2000 batches of frozen poultry meat transported from Poland at the UK border as a pilot, the data can be delivered to the regulatory authorities up to 20 hours in advance; The export documents from Kenya to the UK used to take eight hours by air and three weeks by sea, but now they can be obtained within five minutes. The British government also sent four cabinet office personnel to work full-time for a whole year. And its ambitions are not limited to these. At the end of last year, @ iota joined forces with the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area, the World Economic Forum, and the Tony Blair Foundation to launch a program called ADAPT, which is directly based on TWIN. By 2035, the goal is to connect all 55 African countries to a unified open digital trade infrastructure, double intra African trade, and unleash over $70 billion in additional trade volume. The first step was taken in May this year, with Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria becoming the first three countries to land, respectively stuck in East Africa, North Africa, and West Africa. This is no longer a pilot project, it's a continent in motion. I stared at these numbers for a long time. Because this is not about future trade being changed by blockchain, but rather a running record that is already being modified. A cross-border trade can involve thirty stakeholders, thirty-six documents, and over two hundred paper copies. This kind of bad debt is not just a trivial matter within Web3, but a pile of global trade that has been running for decades without being wiped clean. What IOTA is doing now is to turn the chain into the layer of trust and auditing in trade, rather than releasing another on chain application that no one remembers in a hundred days. TWIN has only been online for a year, and it has already gone from a concept to a real pilot across Africa and the UK. If this speed doesn't sound fast in web3, but you put it on the plate of global trade and see how difficult it is! It needs to go one by one to negotiate with the government, customs, ports, and exporters, gradually piecing together the process of no one willing to surrender control first into a network that everyone can use without being controlled by any single party. Being able to push this matter to fruition within a year itself speaks volumes. In a bull market, who can tell a better story than others, only in a bear market can we see who is doing things silently. There are too many projects on the market that tell a story that even one cannot tell where they will land, and in the past decade, @ iota seems to have slowly turned that story into flowers for East Africa, poultry for Poland, and the $400 saved per month by a Kenyan exporter.