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🏗️ Saudi Arabia Bets Big on Tokenizing Its Trillion-Dollar Economy

🔳 Faisal Monai, architect of Saudi’s digital payments system, is leading a $12.5B push via droppRWA to bring real-world assets onchain and make the kingdom a blueprint for sovereign-grade tokenization by 2030.

💎 From Cash to Onchain
🔸 Monai built SADAD in 2004, shifting 70% of Saudi bill payments from cash to digital. Today it handles 14.5B+ transactions worth $250B annually.
🔸 Now he’s scaling that playbook to real estate, energy, manufacturing and more—starting with the world’s first tokenized property deed in Feb 2026, cutting settlement from days to seconds.

🛡️ Why Tokenization Now
🔸 Monai says tokenization gives Gulf economies “certainty of ownership, transfer, collateral and settlement” during volatility.
🔸 It’s a safety layer when legacy systems strain, keeping value legally anchored to real assets while moving digitally at speed.
🔸 Saudi plans stablecoin-based real estate settlement live by late 2026 under CMA and SAMA oversight.

🌍 Global Implications
🔸 The kingdom wants to prove that sovereign-grade tokenization can run as core national infrastructure.
🔸 Monai expects several G20 nations to adopt the same regulatory and tech models by 2030.
🔸 He rejects de-dollarization but backs a “multi-rail” system where stablecoins run alongside the dollar for faster, sovereign settlement.

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