Focus Areas | Explore IOTA's Focus Areas for Blockchain Innovation

Driving the adoption of trusted digital infrastructure across global industries

Empowering enterprises with efficiency, security, and transparency – paving the way for a connected and decentralized economy

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Real-World Asset Tokenization

Trade & Supply Chains

Digital Identity

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Product Lifecycle Integrity

Decentralized Finance

Real-World Asset Tokenization

IOTA powers RWA tokenization, offering secure verification, efficient asset management, and near-instant cost-effective transactions. With flexible infrastructure, including a Move-based Mainnet and EVM, builders can choose the best fit for their needs, enabling seamless tokenization and automated compliance.

Ownership is trapped in centralized registries, locking retail investors out of private markets

Fractional ownership of real assets enabled

Markets are dominated by institutions, widening inequality and creating barriers for retail investors

No access barriers to Investment opportunities

Settlements rely on intermediaries, which causes high fees and delayed transfers

Near-instant 24/7 settlement

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Salus

Closing the Trade Finance Gap with Tokenization

Global Trade & Supply Chain

Traditional trade lacks transparency and real-time visibility, slowing supply chain efficiency. IOTA breaks data silos, enabling inclusive, transparent, and digitally powered ecosystems for global trade.

$33 trillion global trade market hampered by significant inefficiencies and siloed systems

A shared infrastructure securing data integrity, data authenticity and data control

Manual processes plagued by delays, disputes, and lack of accuracy

Automated verification and settlements

50 documents per shipment driving 10-30% of trade costs and no single source of truth

Cost efficient digital data sharing and tracking at scale

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TWIN

Seamless transfer of digital trade data across borders

Digital Identity

IOTA’s Digital Identity solutions offer a universal trust layer for secure, verifiable interactions across various applications. With W3C-compliant technology, IOTA supports diverse use cases through verifiable credentials and robust authentication, ensuring seamless and secure digital interactions.

Centralized systems create single points of failure and verification friction

User-controlled credentials that work globally

Users lack control over personal data

Privacy-preserving verification

Every platform and service has its own KYC process

Eliminate repeated KYC processes

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Impierce

Open-source identity for a digital society

Turing Space

Fraud-Resistant Credentials for Global Use

Product Lifecycle

Products pass through many stages – from raw material sourcing to end-of-life recycling. But fragmented data and unverifiable claims make it difficult to ensure accountability. IOTA offers a unified view of a product’s entire lifecycle, helping prove sustainability, achieve compliance, and deliver circularity at every step.

Lifecycle data siloed across stakeholders

Multiple stakeholders can update verified data

Increasingly complex regulatory compliance

Immutable, auditable lifecycle records that simplify compliance and reporting

Sustainability claims can’t be verified

Transparent recycling and sustainability data

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Orobo

Digital passports for regulation-ready products

ObjectID

Digital twins for authentic and transparent products

Decentralized Finance

IOTA’s Move-based Layer 1 empowers builders with advanced DeFi tools, optional EVM integration, and sustainable tokenomics, driving a new era of innovative, community-led finance.

Slow and costly cross-border payments

Sub-second and low-few settlement across borders

Unequal access to capital markets excludes SMEs and individuals

Lower entry-barriers via tokenization and fractional access

Limited transparency in asset-backed financing is

Audit-friendly ledger with immutability by design

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Virtue

Rise Above Financial Barriers With Virtue

Pools Finance

Efficient Liquidity Infrastructure for DeFi