ADAPT: The Largest RWA Development in 2025 (Web2 + Web3 + Government)

Real-world asset sector is now expanding into Africa’s multi-trillion trade economy.

Here’s what ADAPT is and why it matters:
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1. What is ADAPT?
(Africa Digital Access and Public Infrastructure for Trade)

ADAPT is a shared, open digital public infrastructure connecting all 55 African member states.

Its goal is straightforward: modernize the continent’s trade system by moving documents and transactions onto verifiable digital rails.

IOTA ( @iota ) powers the backbone of this network, helping settle trade data across borders with support from AfCFTA, the World Economic Forum, and the Tony Blair Institute ( @AfCFTA @wef @InstituteGC ).

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2. Why this matters for Africa

Countries in Africa loses billions each year simply because the process is not effective enough.

Africa’s trade system is still heavily on paper. Billions of documents move slower than the goods they represent.

This creates real economic pain:

> High overhead cost
> Long verification times + de;ays
> Fraud and manual errors
> SMEs blocked from trade finance

ADAPT solves this.

All documents and identities will become verifiable onchain.

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3. Value Capture: IOTA Network

Now that IOTA brings data onchain, the next layer is financing: using USDT as the transaction engine.

This is where value starts flowing directly through IOTA Network:

🟩 USDT settlement eventually shifts $25B+ in annual payment fees onto IOTA
🟩 100,000+ daily trade transactions already processed in early pilots
🟩 $70B in new intra-African trade value projected to unlock through ADAPT

This is the layer where IOTA captures the most value: real economic flows settling onchain.

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4. $IOTA Flywheel

This means IOTA’s flywheel becomes:
1️⃣ Documents → verified on-chain
2️⃣ Payments → settled via USDT on IOTA
3️⃣ Assets → tokenised and financed
4️⃣ More utility → higher protocol usage → growth in staking and deposit dynamics

This initiative brings new RWA asset classes and new RWA yields to the IOTA network.

And the magnitude will be significant, given Africa is the second largest continent in the world.

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ADAPT is already live in Kenya and Rwanda, where document digitization and verification are running in production.

The rollout will be moving from pilots to continent-wide deployment.

If this continues scaling, the value settling on $IOTA will be billions as transactions and assets are settled on its network.

NFA. DYOR.