Wrapped up Q2 today by presenting the @ZIGChain journey to the senior leadership team at @Disrupt_com This quarter was an important one for us. We launched ZIGMarkets as our commercial engine, announced the 500M ethereum:0xb2617246d0c6c0087f18703d576831899ca94f01 buyback journey, went live with new products across Oro, Nawa and Valdora, and continued building serious institutional momentum across partners like Apex, Ondo, Taurus, Beehive, Fasset, Fuze, and a few others. We also took ZIGChain into bigger global rooms, from our own ZIGChain Summit to SuperReturn in Berlin and Point Zero Forum in Zurich. The biggest takeaway for me is simple. ZIGChain is no longer just about building chain infrastructure. We are now building a vertically integrated onchain finance ecosystem where products, capital, users, revenue and ethereum:0xb2617246d0c6c0087f18703d576831899ca94f01 alignment all start moving in the same direction. Q2 was momentum, Q3 is where we compound it.

2/ ZIG Markets originates, structures and distributes yield products, placing them with institutions and platforms that allocate capital. A share of the fees generated funds these acquisitions, meaning they scale as the business grows.

Heading to Tashkent for Silk Road Finance & Technology Forum, 24–26 August. Meeting regulators, institutions and builders to discuss tokenized assets, stablecoins and how @ZIGChain and ZIG Markets can build capital rails across emerging markets, with ethereum:0xb2617246d0c6c0087f18703d576831899ca94f01 at the core of it! If you’re attending, DM me.

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