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Where you're born still determines a lot about what you're actually allowed to invest in.

ZIGChain co-founder Abdul Rafay Gadit joined FINTECH TV to explain why that shouldn't be the case.

We're unlocking real yield from businesses across the Middle East for investors around the world, while bringing global capital back into those same businesses. Two markets that have traditionally operated in isolation are finally being connected.

The conversation also explores a point that deserves more attention: ethical finance isn't just for the community it originated with. Its principles have broad appeal, which is why a $7 trillion market remains one of the biggest untapped opportunities in finance.

Full conversation here: https://cms.fintech.tv/abdul-rafy-gadit-why-the-next-1-trillion-finance-company-could-come-out-of-the-middle-east/

The first generation of token economies was built purely on narrative. Projects issued tokens, promised future adoption, and let speculation hold up the price. For a while, it worked. But it doesn't work anymore and everyone knows it.

Starting today, $ZIG is different.

Most tokens fail in one of three ways: no link to real revenue, value captured by a treasury instead of returned to holders, or governance that controls nothing of consequence. $ZIG was built to avoid all three at once.

The link starts with ZIG Markets. Onchain capital, regulated yield, and institutional demand have existed separately for years. TradFi has the capital, DeFi has the composability, neither side has had a compliant way to connect to the other. Now they do because ZIG Markets is the layer that connects them.

This isn't a niche opportunity. Stablecoins already represent over $300bn onchain, with transaction volume in the tens of trillions annually. Tokenized real world assets sit at roughly $30bn. That gap is the market and ZIG Markets is the bridge built to connect both sides.

Revenue from that activity doesn't disappear when markets go quiet. It's infrastructure revenue: fees on access and distribution, the toll capital pays to move compliantly onchain. Demand for that toll grows as regulation tightens, not the other way around.

Starting today, a portion of that revenue buys $ZIG from the open market every month. What happens next isn't decided by us. It's decided onchain.

Half of every acquisition goes automatically into the ecosystem pool. The other half goes to a validator vote: retire it permanently, or reserve it to improve the ecosystem. A real proposal process, deposit period, and 96-hour vote, and all of it published onchain either way.

That's the part that makes this governance and not theatre. Validators aren't voting on cosmetic parameters. They're voting on the fate of capital that was just pulled out of the market.

Retirement tightens supply. Reinvestment funds the grants, liquidity, and infrastructure that grow ZIG Markets revenue in the first place. Either outcome feeds the same loop. Neither one is a dead end.

We won't publish burn targets or supply forecasts because anyone who does is playing a guessing game. What we will publish is what already happened, every month, on a live dashboard at hub.zigchain.com.

Real revenue, not narrative. A binding mechanism, not an empty promise. Governance that decides something, not governance that performs something.

This is Tokenomics 2.0.

Full details: whitepaper.zigchain.com/zig-tokenomics.pdf

We have been heads down for a while, and the last two weeks are where some of it surfaced.

With buybacks just a day out, we kept shipping to match the moment. ZIGChain partnered with Fasset, TVL crossed $50M, ORO made the world's most exclusive funds something anyone could ask about, the network hit its ten millionth block, and co-founder Abdul Rafay Gadit took the ZIGChain thesis to Point Zero Forum in Zurich.

Headline News

ZIGChain crossed $50M in TVL. Two thirds of that is held in stablecoins, with more than $33M in USDC already working across onchain yield products. That's the part worth noting. Stablecoins usually sit idle, and on ZIGChain most of them are put to work.

ZIGChain x Fasset. A regulated, Shariah compliant platform serving over a million users across 125 countries, many of them in markets that rarely get this kind of access. The partnership is the real milestone here. It opens a path for real world yield and investment products to eventually reach users the old system never served.

Governance and Ecosystem

ORO integrated KAIO. BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, Brevan Howard. The thing that kept most people out of these funds was never just the minimum ticket. It was knowing enough to ask the right questions in the first place. ORO, built on ZIGChain and trained on every fund KAIO has tokenized, lets you ask what a fund holds and how it works, and answers in plain language. You can understand them today. Access to them follows.

Milestones

Block 10,000,000. The network crossed its ten millionth block this fortnight. Each one settles the activity that tokenized real world assets depend on, and it is quiet proof that the infrastructure under the products just keeps running.

$50M in TVL, and the makeup is the part worth noting. More than $33M of it is USDC, already working across yield products rather than sitting on the sidelines. This is real capital that chose to come here and compound.

Events

Abdul Rafay Gadit at Point Zero Forum in Zurich. Point Zero Forum brought together more than 80 regulators and central banks to work through stablecoins, digital money, and the rules for bringing real assets onchain. Our co-founder spent the week in that room, because the decisions made there will shape how all of onchain finance gets governed.

Your capital is probably sitting idle right now. Most of it is.

It gets parked. It gets forgotten. It earns next to nothing. That's just how it has always worked.

But it doesn't have to.

Capital sits idle for one reason: it never had a better place to be.

We're building that place. Capital can move into private credit. It can move into equities. It can move into real estate. It earns its keep instead of waiting around for you to need it.

Stables stay parked. But capital with somewhere to go gets to work.

ZIGChain has now crossed $50M in TVL.

What's interesting is that 66% of that capital is in stablecoins, with over $33M in USDC deployed across yield products in the ecosystem.

Users aren't just holding assets here. They're actively putting capital to work.

And this is only the beginning of what the ecosystem can support.

Every partner in our ecosystem does a different job.

Together, they cover the full journey of an asset: from tokenization and structuring to distribution into the hands of people who never had access before.

- Private Credit: ABHI, Beehive, DeFa

- Real Estate: Token Bazaar

- Quant Hedge Fund: Suisse Quant

- Tokenization Orchestration: Zamanat

- Tokenization Infrastructure: Zoniqx

- Distribution Infrastructure: Taurus, Fuze, Fasset

And now Ondo Finance joins, bringing tokenized exposure to global stocks and ETFs.

That full journey is the bigger picture for ZIGChain.