- In an X post, Salima shed light on 12 projects actively developing on the IOTA network.
- IOTA Rebased is providing fertile ground for projects tackling DeFi, tokenization, identity, logistics, and even real-world yield opportunities.
IOTA has always been a bit different from the rest of the blockchains. Since the very beginning, it set out to build on a DAG-based ledger called the Tangle, aiming to support feeless or ultra-low-fee applications across IoT and digital identity.
Over the years, the community has watched testnets launch, audits take place, and tooling slowly fall into place. Then, on May 5, the upgrade finally went live: IOTA Rebased.
Salima, a long-time tech enthusiast and follower of the crypto markets, summed it up in her recent post:
Dozens of on-chain projects are getting ready to launch on IOTA Rebased. Some will make it, others might fade away, but what’s happening is simply overwhelming. It’s no longer necessary to rely only on L2 chains for smart contracts; DeFi, tokenization, identity, and more can now live directly on L1.
What makes Rebased so exciting to build on is that it leverages the Move Virtual Machine(MoveVM), which opens the door to building smart contracts with stronger safety guarantees, cleaner abstractions, and resource-oriented programming.
What These Projects Share and What They Solve
GS1 Traceability could be one of the most transformative projects building on IOTA Rebased. For decades, industries around the world have relied on GS1 standards, identifiers like Electronic Product Code and Global Location Number to keep track of goods, locations, and events in supply chains.
GS1 Traceability is bringing these standards on-chain to make the supply chain transparent and tamper-proof. Fashion Traceability promises to give every garment its own NFT identity and supply chains that are transparent at every step.
According to Salima, IOTA SocialFi is a project that turns social media into a fully decentralized, on-chain experience. Every post becomes a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), every like is a verified transaction, and the attention users generate actually holds value rather than being harvested by ads or algorithms.
The IOTA Music Platform is built to help musicians register their songs directly on-chain, earn royalties in IOTA tokens, and deliver their work to fans.
On Chain takes the familiar concept of a “like” and turns it into a verifiable, on-chain marker of digital reputation, one that can’t be faked or manipulated. Then there is a Ticketing NFT System that plans to fix one of the most frustrating parts of the events industry: fraud and scalping.
Other projects explore more practical and everyday services. VeriQuote, for instance, acts as a decentralized notary, hashing and timestamping documents in a public, tamper-proof way, while Ride Matching, which Salima dubbed a kind of “Uber 3.0,” connects passengers and drivers directly.
For farmers, the AgriTech Pilot introduces smart sensors that track humidity, nutrients, and soil conditions in real time, with every datapoint logged, certified, and made fully traceable from farm to table.
Sustainability efforts are also front and center: the Carbon Credit Marketplace tokenizes carbon credits, enabling transparent, real-time trading that could finally make offsetting emissions auditable and trustworthy.
Energy innovation builds on this momentum with the Smart Energy System, which gives devices their own on-chain identities so they can log usage, send alerts, and even manage themselves autonomously, while the Power Monitor serves as a decentralized auditor that detects anomalies in voltage and power in real time, making energy systems safer and more accountable.
Salima concluded that:
In IOTA, the real world is about to go on-chain. From music to energy. From agriculture to social networks. From every corner of life.
