Mantra and Damac sign $1B deal to tokenize Middle Eastern assets

    Mantra, a blockchain built for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), signed a $1 billion agreement with Damac Group, an investment conglomerate, to enable token-based finance in the Middle East. Damac, whose portfolio spans sectors such as real estate development, data centers and hospitality, will use Mantra to tokenize its extensive asset portfolio. According to a news…

    POLITICO: The Middle East’s crypto paradox

    The Middle East, where crypto use is growing fastest, offers the starkest contrasts between cryptocurrency’s origins as anti-government money and the growing desire of governments to use the technology to modernize markets and monitor financial activity – writes Ben Schreckinger on POLITICO. At high-powered business gatherings this week, government officials and executives here highlighted their…

    Window between Web3 and wealth generation all set to open in MENA

    Window between Web3 and wealth generation is all set to open in the MENA region, says Farbod Sadeghian, the founder of artèQ and Qlindo, on Arab News. As is true for most of the world, the socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the Middle East and North Africa have been quite punitive. With stringent…

    Chainalysis: MENA region was the world’s fastest-growing crypto market

    Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis’s study revealed that the Middle East and North Africa region was the fastest-growing market for crypto adoption over the 12-month period that ended on June 30. Crypto users in the region received $566 billion in crypto from July 2021 to June 2022. Users based in The Middle East and North Africa…

    SHAREit connects users and apps in the crypto space

    SHAREit Group, a global technology company, presented its ability to connect numerous users in the Middle East. The platform drives around two million new users to various crypto apps each month. At the recent Crypto Dubai Expo, SHAREit Director of Global Partnerships Lisa Dominguez, in a keynote speech, shared that the UAE, Egypt, and Saudi…

    A clear-eyed view of DeFi for Middle East financial services executives

    For the near future, financial executives can expect substantial ambiguity surrounding all things DeFi, which they can best confront with an open mind, a level head, and a willingness to roll up their sleeves and get involved, Jorge Camarate, Antoine Khadige, and Vishal Gupta, Senior Associate, from Strategy& wrote on Arabian Business. Financial service companies…