IOTA IoT Module
ISO ModuleIOTA's designated role in the ISO 20022 cohort is machine-to-machine (IoT) micropayments and tamper-proof data streams, rather than traditional bank payment messaging.
IOTA is the outlier among the ISO 20022 coins: its thesis is the machine economy, not interbank payments. Built on the Tangle — a directed acyclic graph (DAG) rather than a conventional blockchain — IOTA was designed for very low-cost microtransactions and data integrity between devices: sensors, vehicles, and industrial equipment settling value and logging tamper-evident data.
The original Tangle was marketed as feeless but relied on a central Coordinator. The May 2025 "Rebased" mainnet upgrade removed the Coordinator, added MoveVM smart contracts, and moved IOTA to a Mysticeti delegated-proof-of-stake Layer 1 — so modern IOTA is a staked, validator-based network, not the historical feeless model. (See the Tangle entry for the architecture detail.)
IOTA's ISO 20022 relevance is indirect: it comes through industrial and IoT applications where machine-to-machine payments carry rich metadata that can flow into ERP and supply-chain systems. IOTA Identity (decentralized identity for people, organizations, and devices) and EU-funded data-infrastructure projects give it real, if narrower, deployment pathways.
Crypto Relevance
IOTA's "module" is the machine economy — the most speculative of the eight ISO 20022 roles, betting that IoT and machine-to-machine micropayments scale into a market where a formerly-feeless, data-rich DAG has an edge.
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Join ISO 20022 investorsRelated Terms
Tangle
Tangle is IOTA's original directed-acyclic-graph (DAG) ledger, where each transaction confirmed two previous ones; in May 2025 the IOTA Rebased upgrade replaced it with a Delegated-Proof-of-Stake design.
MiCA
MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) is the European Union's comprehensive framework regulating crypto-asset issuers, stablecoins, and crypto-asset service providers.
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Last reviewed: 2026-07-01