IOTA has announced a strategic integration with private key management platform Turnkey. According to IOTA, this initiative is part of the effort to simplify the platform for easy navigation and interaction for both builders and users.
In an official blog post, IOTA disclosed that its availability on Turnkey would enable its developers to easily integrate secure and policy-driven wallet infrastructure into their applications, rather than building it from scratch. In a nutshell, the integration would enable developers to do three major things, and the first one is to leverage transaction automations.
Additionally, they can integrate non-custodial wallets into their products without requiring a seed phrase. Finally, they can also build a scalable and secure application in a way that balances user experience and security, thanks to the wallet infrastructure.
In the post, the IOTA team explained that developers could also have the option to choose an authentication method for users to access their wallet accounts, all without the need to manage key phrases or private keys, as mentioned earlier.
Commenting on this, the co-founder of IOTA Foundation, Dominik Schiener, highlighted that this massive development could accelerate adoption. Already, a significant rise in interest has been seen from projects based on IOTA to adopt this infrastructure.
Outside this technical integration, IOTA is making efforts to showcase its digitization of trade, supply chain, and real-world assets via its Trade Worldwide Information Network (TWIN). It has just completed pilot projects in Europe and Africa, and it’s now scaling collaborations with governments, industries, and international organizations.
In a recent interview examined by CNF, Schiener disclosed that international trade represents 1/3 of global GDP. Not Just that. It also represents about $30 trillion in goods moving worldwide. In this case, IOTA is designed to bring transparency, trust, and security to this sector. The TWIN initiative has also been expanded to focus on customs, taxes, and trade digitization, as discussed earlier.
To enhance its global marketing in communication capabilities, IOTA has also announced Karen O’Brien as Chief Marketing Officer for IOTA Foundation, and Manuel Vigilius as Executive Communications Advisor and interim Head of Communications for TWIN.
Karen O’Brien commented on this appointment:
As noted in our recent article, IOTA is set to secure a digital identity framework to connect 36 countries and 4.78 billion citizens. Interestingly, all of these initiatives are being built upon the groundbreaking upgrade known as the Rebased Protocol and its TWIN global, which was launched in the second quarter of the year (Q2 2025), according to our recent update.
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