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source_url: "https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/press-releases/gleif-announces-partnership-with-the-iota-foundation-to-promote-the-digitalization-of-global-trade"
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# IOTA Foundation

A foundation partnering with GLEIF on proof-of-concept work that combines the vLEI with its TWIN trade network for customs checks and trade finance. Source read 21 October 2026: GLEIF's press release, undated on the page.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence official (a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page).
Source: https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/press-releases/gleif-announces-partnership-with-the-iota-foundation-to-promote-the-digitalization-of-global-trade (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).