The Founder's Table | November 3 • 5PM UTC Moving your money onchain is one thing, but taking it off is another. @RaafiHossain, CEO of @fasset, joins our co-founders @ARafayGadit and @davidrodriguezc live on this month's episode of The Founder's Table to talk: - How money moves from local accounts into dollar investments - What happens when an investor wants out on a weekend - Who is still shut out of onchain investments and why 🎙️ Live on X Spaces: Moderated by @Khaliiqo. Pull up a seat at The Founder's Table.

Our team will be in London from 9 to 17 November. We'll be attending seven different events and look forward to meeting allocators, issuers and platforms. If you spot any of us, come and say hello.

7 in 10 MSMEs in emerging markets lack adequate financing, contributing to a $5.7 trillion financing gap, according to IFC. Many struggle to secure traditional loans without sufficient collateral or an established credit history, even when they have paying customers and outstanding invoices. Those receivables can provide a basis for financing, allowing businesses to access working capital against expected payments. Through ZIG Markets-curated vaults on @Valdora_finance, we're already bringing onchain capital to SME working-capital financing across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

ZIG Finance has worked alongside @binance in numerous forms over the years, and the team's response over the last 12 hours shows what institutional-grade crisis management looks like: full transparency, assurance of loss coverage for investor protection, coordination across the industry to freeze funds, and a fast path to full restoration of services. Moments like this test the whole industry. We stand with Binance and its users, and we'll come out stronger together. @cz_binance @heyibinance @_RichardTeng

Onchain credit is growing. But is access to financing growing with it? AFME’s latest DLT Capital Market Report puts the tokenized alternative fund market at $14.3bn as of 30 September, up from $11bn in 2025. Credit makes up ~$8bn of it. Businesses can have customers and receivables while struggling to secure financing. As our co-founder @ARafayGadit writes in his recent article on the next phase of onchain lending: “What is often missing is an efficient way for global capital to understand, price and finance those exposures.” Connecting those businesses with investors takes credit assessment, structuring and distribution. That’s the work we bring together through ZIG Markets. The opportunity is turning that scale into wider access: more investors able to participate and more businesses able to reach capital they can put to work.

Great usecase and adoption of tokenized yeild powered by @ZIGFinance. This is how embedded finance eventually works, and we are fully tuned for it. Excited to be working with @GroveXchange on this initiative, providing yeild on USDT to its customers More names to come 🚀

This is why @ZIGFinance matters. The people helping drive the world’s growth should have a fair opportunity to invest in it. Some of the world’s largest companies have built their businesses around global participation. We should be asking why participation in their upside remains so uneven. These companies shape how we communicate, work and build businesses. People across emerging markets buy their products, pay their subscriptions and build entire businesses around their technology. Governments spend taxpayers’ money on their infrastructure and services. Over decades, that spending supports revenues, profits, dividends and shareholder wealth. A business owner can pay for the software powering a global company’s growth every month and still face considerable friction trying to invest in its success. Why should we accept that gap as permanent? I come from banking and have benefited from the relationships and access this system rewards. That experience makes me more conscious of how differently it treats someone without those advantages. Investors should be able to decide what exposure they want, how they want to invest and which provider they trust. Different people will choose different products and structures based on their circumstances. Brokers, fund managers and platforms have built entire businesses around providing access to markets. Tokenization creates more ways to serve that demand. Let businesses compete on access, cost, convenience and transparency, and let investors choose. Of course the money must be lawful, investors must meet the applicable requirements and people must understand what they are buying. Those protections should support a market where informed choices are possible. Tokenization can bring more participants and capital into markets, create additional sources of liquidity and support price discovery across venues. It can make investment products easier to distribute and transactions easier to inspect. Companies should scrutinise how their shares are represented and raise specific concerns. We should also scrutinise restrictions that prevent eligible investors from choosing how to participate. This is why ZIG Finance matters to me. We are working to connect real financial opportunities with people who have been poorly served by existing channels.

Connecting investment opportunities with capital takes origination, curation and distribution working together. Our co-founder @ARafayGadit joins the discussion on that connection at @LaserDigital_'s Frontier Capital Summit in London on 9 November.

ZIG Chain EVM is coming with the v6 upgrade. It’s part of ZIG Chain, not Ethereum. We’re working with partners to get the supporting integrations ready. Your existing address and funds stay as they are. There’s nothing you need to do.

Validators have voted, with 98% of votes in favour, to permanently remove 675,000 $ZIG from circulation, representing half of $ZIG acquired in October. The tokens move to ZIG Chain’s public retirement wallet and leave circulating supply. Details 👇

For us, wider access means more businesses getting funded and more people getting a way to invest in them. Making existing loans usable as collateral could help lenders finance the next business. As our co-founder @ARafayGadit puts it: “Tokenization creates access. Collateralization creates capital efficiency.”

Every onchain product needs capital to become a market. ZIG Chain provides the infrastructure. ZIG Markets earns where capital reaches it, from origination, structuring and distribution. A portion of that revenue can fund open-market $ZIG acquisitions, linking activity to our token.

ZIG Markets’ curated vaults are reaching beyond a single ecosystem. With @Valdora_finance now multichain, investors using supported EVM wallets can access the strategies we already curate on the platform.

$ZIG is now live on OKX Boost. 11,010,000 ZIG in rewards will be shared among the top 8,000 traders by $ZIG trading volume on OKX (@wallet) DEX. The campaign runs until 24 October, 08:00 UTC. Join here 👇

$44 trillion crosses borders every year. Only 0.31% settles onchain. To pay out in minutes, money transfer operators pre-fund cash in the destination country. That capital comes mostly from banks and their own balance sheets. ZIG Markets connects onchain capital to that need. It funds a payout, is repaid at settlement, then funds the next. We're already doing this with @ConcreteXYZ's USD1 RWA Vault.