Twin Foundation正式启动，与IOTA和AFCFTA重新定义了全球贸易

这次推出是多年创新，协作和数字愿景的产物，代表了进行国际贸易方式的一个重大飞跃。

The Trade and World Integration Network (TWIN) Foundation was officially launched yesterday in Lusaka during the AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol event.

贸易和世界一体化网络（TWIN）基金会于昨天在AFCFTA数字贸易协议活动期间正式在卢萨卡成立。

A product of years of innovation, collaboration and digital vision, the launch of the TWIN Foundation marks a significant moment for global commerce.

Twin Foundation的创新，协作和数字视觉的多年创新产品标志着全球商业的重要时刻。

What began as a bold experiment in 2016, led by IOTA and developed through TLIP (Trade and Logistics Information Pipeline), has now become a global movement with the creation of the TWIN Foundation. The foundation is being built on open-source principles to serve a very specific purpose: to make trade faster, more transparent, more secure and above all, more inclusive. If you work in the spaces where data, identity and trust matter, TWIN is your new home base.

最初是由IOTA领导的，并通过TLIP（贸易和物流信息管道）开发的大胆实验，现在已随着Twin Foundation的创建而成为全球运动。该基金会建立在开源原则的基础上，以实现非常具体的目的：使贸易更快，更透明，更安全，最重要的是更具包容性。如果您在数据，身份和信任物质的空间中工作，那么Twin是您的新家庭基础。

The TWIN Foundation is a non-profit organization tasked with stewarding the global rollout of digital trade infrastructure, with an emphasis on interoperability, transparency and decentralization. In short, it is creating the ‘plumbing’ that powers the digital trade world of tomorrow.

Twin Foundation是一个非营利组织，其任务是管理全球数字贸易基础设施的推出，重点是互操作性，透明度和权力下放化。简而言之，它正在创建为明天的数字贸易世界提供动力的“管道”。

Launched with the support of AfCFTA and alongside key collaborators such as IOTA and TLIP, TWIN is already demonstrating success through pilot projects with the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). These projects are applying real-world use cases to show how customs, logistics and cross-border documentation can all be streamlined through technology. At its core, the Foundation is proving that digital trade infrastructure is not only a ‘nice-to-have’, but a critical need. By embedding trust and verifiability into data flows, it makes digital trade work at scale, globally.

Twin在AFCFTA和IOTA和TLIP等主要合作者的支持下启动，已经通过与肯尼亚税务局（KRA）的飞行员项目一起证明了成功。这些项目正在应用现实世界中的用例来展示如何通过技术简化海关，物流和跨境文档。基金会以此为核心，证明了数字贸易基础设施不仅是“不错的”，而且是一个迫切的需求。通过将信任和验证性嵌入到数据流中，它可以使数字贸易在全球范围内进行大规模工作。

One of the earliest backers and developers of this system was IOTA technology, known for its feeless, decentralized architecture, which was instrumental in establishing the digital backbone of TWIN. The goal was to eliminate friction in trade caused by paperwork, inconsistent standards and delays in verification.

该系统的最早支持者和开发人员之一是Iota Technology，以其启发性的，分散的建筑而闻名，该建筑有助于建立双胞胎的数字骨干。目的是消除由文书工作，不一致的标准和验证延迟引起的贸易摩擦。

Deploying IOTA’s distributed ledger technology within the TLIP protocol enabled TWIN to create a system where governments, customs authorities and companies can share verifiable data instantly and securely. The result? Fewer errors, lower costs and better collaboration between trading partners. This isn’t technological evolution, it’s a fundamental reimagining of how we build systems for trade. And it’s happening right now.

在TLIP协议中部署IOTA的分布式分类帐技术使双胞胎能够创建一个系统，政府，海关当局和公司可以立即安全地共享可验证的数据。结果？贸易伙伴之间的错误，较低的成本和更好的合作。这不是技术演变，而是对我们如何建立贸易系统的基本重新构想。现在正在发生。

One of the strongest aspects of the TWIN Foundation is its emphasis on inclusive trade. By leveraging open-source frameworks, the foundation ensures that small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and under-represented regions also get a seat at the table. Whether you’re a local logistics firm in Kenya or a customs agency in Ghana, the infrastructure does not require massive budgets or complex integrations. It’s built to scale, up and down, depending on what each region or partner needs. This is critical in a world where digital inequality can often mirror economic inequality. TWIN isn’t just building systems for the top 1 percent of traders. It’s democratizing access to global trade flows for everyone.

双胞胎基金会最强大的方面之一是它强调包容性贸易。通过利用开源框架，基金会确保中小型企业，初创企业和代表性不足的地区也可以坐在桌子上。无论您是肯尼亚的当地物流公司还是加纳的海关机构，基础设施都不需要大量的预算或复杂的整合。根据每个地区或合作伙伴的需求，它的构建是为了上下扩展。在这个数字不平等通常可以反映经济不平等的世界中，这至关重要。双胞胎不仅仅是为交易员的最高1％建立系统。它使每个人都民主化进入全球贸易流动。

With the official launch behind them, the TWIN Foundation is now looking ahead to expanding its ecosystem. More pilot programs, more public-private partnerships and more countries onboarded into its infrastructure will define the next phase of growth. But perhaps most importantly, this is just the beginning of the journey.

随着他们背后的正式发布，双基金会现在正在寻求扩大其生态系统。更多的试点计划，更多的公私合作伙伴关系以及更多进入基础设施的国家将定义下一阶段的增长阶段。但是也许最重要的是，这只是旅程的开始。

By committing to open standards, decentralization and global collaboration, the TWIN Foundation is setting a new benchmark for how we design digital trade infrastructure that actually works, across borders, sectors and technologies. And as Sir Tony Blair, Executive Chair of the Institute for Global Change, emphasized during the launch, “If we can rebuild trust in how the world trades, we can rebuild prosperity too.”

通过承诺开放标准，权力下放和全球合作，Twin Foundation正在为我们如何设计数字贸易基础架构设计新的基准，该基础设施实际上是在跨越边界，部门和技术的实际工作的。正如全球变革研究所执行主席托尼·布莱尔爵士（Tony Blair）在发射期间强调的那样，“如果我们可以重建对世界交易的信任，我们也可以重建繁荣。”