My interview with the CMO of the ADI Foundation, on how the UAE and the broader GCC region are accelerating stablecoin adoption.

We discuss how central banks and regulators in the region are moving fast, why banks are now actively exploring stablecoins, and whether "cash, card, or crypto" could soon become reality.

- Why stablecoin adoption in the UAE and GCC is accelerating

- How government-led regulation is shaping the ecosystem

- Why major crypto firms are setting up in Abu Dhabi and Dubai

- Will banks launch their own stablecoins or form consortiums?

- Payments, remittances, and retail adoption in the region

- Could users hold multiple ecosystem-based stablecoins in one wallet?

- The balance between transparency and privacy in stablecoin transactions

- How data sovereignty and regulatory clarity are driving institutional adoption

A sharp look at how stablecoins are moving from theory to real-world infrastructure across the Middle East.

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We discuss how decentralised finance is evolving from a crypto-native experiment into an infrastructure layer for institutional finance—and why the convergence between DeFi and traditional finance is accelerating.

- Why investors see DeFi as an uncorrelated portfolio strategy

- The massive liquidity opportunity created by thousands of new DeFi protocols

- Why liquidity providers are becoming the "banks" of the DeFi ecosystem

- The biggest challenge for new protocols: distribution and market access

- How institutions evaluate DeFi risk similarly to credit risk in traditional finance

- Why tokenized funds, real-world assets, and blockchain settlement are accelerating institutional adoption

- How traditional asset managers and banks are entering DeFi

- Why the future may involve two parallel systems: regulated blockchain finance and open DeFi innovation

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We explore how institutional-grade MPC technology is finally migrating to retail, why seed phrases are a massive vulnerability, and whether self-custody can evolve to meet the realities of security, privacy, and regulation.

- Why institutional custody standards never reached retail — until now

- The real risks of seed phrases, wrench attacks, and physical crime

- How MPC (multi-party computation) changes self-custody forever

- Inheritance, recoverability, and protecting users from themselves

- Privacy in crypto: is blockchain too transparent?

- Full homomorphic encryption and the future of on-chain privacy

- Should self-custody wallets face regulatory oversight?

- How AI + blockchain could reshape compliance frameworks