Reinsurance has historically been accessible only to pension funds and private equity, and putting it on-chain changes that. @Ayyanrahman, Co-Founder & CSO of @onrefinance, tells @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt they underwrite property catastrophe risk across hurricanes, earthquakes, and typhoons, opening the asset class to anyone and making it tradable 24/7.

Most bitcoin:native sits idle and @ZestProtocol is building a different path through native collateral vaults. Co-Founder @TychoOnnasch tells @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt the model mirrors how gold works: “Bitcoin stays put while its value works elsewhere,” turning it into productive capital without wrapping or bridging.

Before an Egyptian company goes abroad, one adviser says it has to answer a single question. @Nadim_Samna, Managing Partner at Stratexis, tells @BasselSabri it’s “why should a customer in that market buy from you?” Expansion creates value when it “multiplies the strengths you already have domestically.”

Accountable V2 is chapter two for institutional finance on-chain. @AccountableData CEO & Co-Founder @WojtekP sat down with @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt to break down what V2 adds, from fund admin and ratings to modular vaults, and why the end-to-end model matters for institutions bringing their business on-chain. 00:00 Intro 00:44 Accountable Verifies Institutional Data Without Ever Seeing It 02:00 Accountable V2 Is Built To Be The End-To-End Stack 03:25 Vault Answers Yes To Everything Institutions Want 04:47 Most Yield Opportunities Are Still Off-chain 05:51 TVL Shows Distribution, Not The Whole Picture 06:58 The RockawayX Rating Scores Transparency

Samsung is bringing @solana stablecoins into Samsung Wallet, starting with 82 million users in the US. Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer at the Solana Foundation, tells @BasselSabri it’s “a historic moment for the adoption of crypto globally.” #token2049 #singapore

Tokenised equities are getting the attention, but one risk-cover provider says they’re still “billions versus the trillions.” Ralf Taner, Head of Business Development at @NexusMutual, tells @BasselSabri what excites him more is issuers and protocols coming to Nexus “seeking our input even before launch.”

Accountable V2 is here, marking the company's next chapter. @WojtekP, Co-Founder & CEO of @AccountableData, tells @BasselSabri the new version expands into fund admin services and financial statements, aiming to be an end-to-end provider so clients "don't need another service provider" for anything else. 🎙️ Live from @DeFinition_evt

Nigeria's equity market capitalisation has jumped from under $40 billion to about $112 billion. Senator Dr. Osita Izunaso, Chairman of Nigeria's Senate Committee on Capital Markets and Financial Institutions, tells @BasselSabri the $2.1 trillion naira Dangote Refinery IPO is "a people's IPO" modeled on Saudi Aramco's 2019 listing, and expects it to be oversubscribed.

Someone could be stealing your encrypted data right now, not to read it today, but to unlock it once quantum computers catch up. Joshua Ashley Klayman Kuzar, Firm-Wide Co-Lead of Digital Assets at @AshurstPerkins, tells @BasselSabri it's called "harvest now, decrypt later," and it's already a board-level priority, not a far-off Y2K-style risk.

About $900 billion flows annually from the Gulf to emerging markets, and it's still settling through a structurally broken system. Abdulaziz Kanoo, Co-Founder of @ARPdigital_io, tells @BasselSabri the real cost isn't fees, it's "float", the capital businesses lose parking money in slow, dollar-based correspondent banking rails.

Saudi Arabia already has 85% of retail payments happening electronically, so the real competition has moved somewhere else entirely. Khalil Alami, Founder & CEO of Telr, tells @BasselSabri the new battleground is speed: "UI UX is basically our goldmine," with faster settlement cycles next on the list.

The payments industry now has more agentic commerce protocols than actual agentic transactions. Rory O'Neill, CMO of @Checkout, tells @BasselSabri "the industry has to collaborate to put trust in the system first" for now, most consumers are using AI to discover products, not yet to pay.

TBC Uzbekistan already has 5.8 million monthly active users and over 20% of the country's payments market, but is AI actually driving that growth? Oliver Hughes, Head of International at TBC Group, tells @basselsabri "the jury is still out" AI is helping generate leads and cross-sell faster, but proving it moves the real economics, not just the interface, is still early days.

One wrong call on a banking partner or licensing path can burn 18 months of runway for a fintech entering Saudi Arabia. Fadi Al Awami, Founder of The Consultation Centre, tells @BasselSabri the right sequence starts with understanding the regulatory framework first, capital comes later, once local partners and structure are in place.

Foodics can now pre-qualify a restaurant for funding and get money in its account within four hours. Amr Badr, COO of @foodics, tells @BasselSabri "we live where the money is moving" using daily sales data instead of financial statements or collateral to decide who gets financed.

For a small business waiting on financing, speed matters more than price. Ali AlKhater, Founder of Isar, tells @BasselSabri is crucial" knowing quickly whether financing is approved matters more to SMEs than getting the best rate.

Saudi Arabia's lending market is on track to hit $1.4 trillion by 2030, but banks still control the vast majority of it today. Majed Abu Al Faraj, Co-Founder & CEO of Feesable, tells @BasselSabri the real opportunity for alternative lenders is deal-specific private credit, a space where $5 billion has already flowed to top fintech originators like Tamara over the past 18 months.

Tokenised real-world assets just hit a record $35 billion on-chain, but is anyone actually using them yet? Dr. Efi Pylarinou, Founder of GrowFin, tells @BasselSabri we're still at the "primitives" stage, tokenised assets and AI agents exist, but the interconnection needed to actually link the real economy to the financial economy "hasn't happened yet."