So while everyone is still trying to figure out what this crash means for IOTA, let's take a second look on the happenings last week and let me show you how there is a picture coming together, that USA might be the next area of expansion for IOTA.

The IOTA x USA story is a long one. The past did cost us a lot. Old IOTA founders basically took every opportunity to shit on big US crypto institutions and as a result we have never managed to get a place in the US.

People where screaming for US exchanges all the time. It never happened. Reason were for one, the huge costs that came with it but also the very bad reputation that IOTA had for years in the states.

We rarely had big meetings, hackathons, big US institutions or an anything else screaming US at iota. Dom once shared he was about to get IOTA listed on Celsius Network but only after their bankruptcy…

So all of that changed a year ago. Actually exactly on the 15th of October 2024. Suddenly Dom was very open about flying to New York for End of November 2024. He never shared for what but one could feel he is excited about the opportunity.

Then another trip shared on End of December again. Dom even shared on Discord "Let's move to New York, 2025". In March 2025 more trips confirmed to Washington and Dom stating once more, that the U.S. is part of the strategy.

So it was suddenly clear, that US became important, however no one in the community knew a thing. And it seemed like not a lot of people got excited either.

Sharing some Alpha here. It's not a surprise Dom was in Washington and New York. There are other super relevant cities in the states. New York and Washington however are a little different. Nevertheless, don't speculate to much about that, things have changed a lil with Trump.

We then got the whole kraken story. Let's not make it bigger than necessary. Basically out of nowhere we were promised a listing. It got announced. By Kraken. Then it got canceled again. And then we got reassured it's still coming. Not that this is huge, but it showed, suddenly things didn't seem to be this harsh in the U.S. anymore.

Fast forward. Two weeks ago Salimasbegum shared with us - absolutely coming out of nothing again - that we are on track to get on BitGo.

BitGo is THE custody provider in the US. It is basically a prerequisite to get listed on the top tier exchanges. It's infrastructure necessary to play in the US.

A week later i wen't to Token2049 and had short chat with Dom. We had a pretty basic get to know, exchanged stories from the past and what we are thinking about IOTA and how it's going to develop.

Dom was chill and as down to earth and friendly as you can imagine, but he was excited about the United States. That immediately stuck with me. Because for me IOTA was EU and Asia. US was not on the table. But Dom was sharing how IOTA and TWINGlobalOrg aren't going to stop at the US-Borders and how US is a key part of the strategy.

Maybe i was blind the whole time, but i haven't yet had that on my map. IOTA and US? Sure, reassurance that we work on it, but it beeing part of the strategy? Part of TWINGlobalOrg? Relevant for salusplatform? I mean yes, of course. But do we really have an entrance ticket there?

Seems like we have.

Okay, so coming back to Europe and Salimasbegum is in full force hinting towards US-Exchanges listing IOTA. Not any US-Exchanges but the important ones. The big ones. coinbase and kraken. I mean it's coming from her, she know stuff and she knows stuff long before anyone could know it. Remember the KeystoneWallet leak? 

Yeah sure. She knew long before anyone read anything about it. So it seems coinbase and kraken are a real possibility. 

Then a day later another strong sign US is getting more important. Karen OBrien is joining the IF as CMO. Chief Marketing Officer. Not a european come up, but a industry known marktin superstar, joining out of the United States. If you think this is a coincidence, well then... It's not.

Karen didn't care at all and just immediately dropped a BOMB SHELL NEWS.  She just dropped that "The US exchanges are coming". Not a single one. No. Multiple.

 https://x.com/bondjanebond/status/1976355812970049833

Salima just did another one. Another hint. This time pointing out BitGo is just days away and UpholdInc coming with it. It's the first time UpholdInc is publicly mentionend. It's a big and trustworthy US-Exchange. As far as i know, there has been long negotiations for the listing but it took a few turns to finally get there.

Uphold Inc also is know for beeing the first, to list assets in the states. They even publicly promote themselves as THE gateway to beeing early.

So tell me whatever you want. But the Foundation is working for over a year now towards getting a foot into the US and it finally seems like it works.

We will see things moving in the states, i am more confident that ever on that. I am happy that we will finally have a gateway for US retail to jump on board. However i am more excited to see TWIN, OROBO, SALUS and Turing Cert leveraging that step to get on US ground.

It is the biggest economy on the world and we will take our piece of that pie. 

It is about time. 

Few.