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🇦🇪 The Blueprint of MENA Blockchain Week: Why It Was Built This Way One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 MENA Blockchain Week was built with one clear vision: not just to host an event, but to activate an ecosystem. 🌍 From the beginning, the focus was simple but intentional > Bring builders, founders, and communities into one shared space. Not just to speak, but to: 🤝 Build 🤝 Connect & move ideas forward in real time! 🇦🇪 What happened on stage was only part of the story. The real work happened long before the doors opened. 👉 Get involved in what comes next: menablockchainweek.ae/get-in… #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE @SNXS_ae

🔷 Girls Who AI x Genspark | Spark Session X MENA Blockchain Week Edition | May 24th The final evening of MENA Blockchain Week 2026 belonged to them. Girls Who AI and Genspark brought the Spark Session to Hadron Founders Club on the closing night of the week, and it was exactly what the name promised: energy, community, and real hands-on learning from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Founders. Marketers. Creatives. Students. Consultants. Women at every level of their AI journey walked in, and none of them left the same way. The session opened with the story of how Girls Who AI began, moved into a live one-hour workshop with Genspark, and turned into something harder to schedule: a room where people actually wanted to stay. No prior knowledge needed. No gatekeeping. Just a community showing up for each other, with tools, mentorship, and merch to match. Led by Nasima Ahmad, Founder of Girls who AI, alongside the Genspark and MENA Blockchain Week teams, this was a reminder that the most important infrastructure in this industry is not a protocol. It is people. Thank you to everyone who attended, supported, and helped make this happen on the final night of a historic week. 🌐 Full day recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… #MENABlockchainWeek #MBCW2026 #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae Mohamad AlHusseini @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc

🔷 Day 7 Recap: Where AI Builders, Traders, and Community Makers Closed Out MENA Blockchain Week 2026 | May 24 One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 The final day of MENA Blockchain Week 2026 did not ease into the finish line. It ran through it. Here is everything that happened. 🔷 Morning | GDG Sharjah x Google AI Weekend, Build with AI Edition X MENA Blockchain Week, Day 2 @GDGSharjah_ @Google The speakers who led the room: 🤝 Bahgat Ahmed, Senior Data Scientist & AI Tech Lead, Mozn 🤝 Mohammed Noshin, Research Fellow, MIT Senseable City Lab 🤝 Seba AlMokdad, Machine Learning Researcher, American University of Sharjah 🤝 Onkar Naik, DevOps Engineer, Callsign 🤝 Maria D'Costa, Senior Software Engineer & Director of Women In Tech Dubai, Expensify 🤝 Mahira Pathan, Cloud Solution Engineer II, Oracle Two days. One outcome: a room full of builders who left with more than they came with. 🔷 Afternoon | Trading & Exchanges Day Meetup Mohamad AlHusseini (@Moexba) and Saed Ereiqat opened with remarks that set the tone. Chris Chalfoun @Cryptohead3, followed with a focused, practical trading workshop, the kind that cuts through noise and gives the room something real to take home. 🔷 Afternoon | From Digital Noise to Phygital Trust: Rethinking Community in Web3 You can master attention. But can you build trust? The speakers who led the room: 🤝 Khaleelulla Baig, Founder & CEO, BitBuddy 🤝 Rajesh Kumar, Head of Distribution, Qatar Insurance Group 🤝 Moderated by Nawaz Baig, Crypto Communicator & Community Builder 🔷 Evening | Girls Who AI x Genspark, Spark Session X MENA Blockchain Week Edition 🤝 Nasima Ahmad, Founder, Girls Who AI Day 7 closed MENA Blockchain Week 2026 the right way. With builders still in the room, still in conversation, still finding reasons to stay. Thank you to everyone who showed up, built, and made MENA Blockchain Week 2026 what it was. 🌐 Full day recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… #MENABlockchainWeek #MBCW2026 #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc

Day 7 Recap:🔷 GDG Google AI Weekend: Build with AI Edition X MENA Blockchain Week, Day 2, May 24 One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 The builders showed up. Again! Day 2 of the GDG Sharjah x MENA Blockchain Week Build with AI workshop picked up exactly where Day 1 left off, same energy, same drive, and even more to show for it. @GDGSharjah_ @Google Developers. Researchers. Engineers. All in one space, hands on keyboards, building real applications with the latest Google AI technologies including Gemini. The speakers who made it happen: 🤝 Bahgat Ahmed, Senior Data Scientist & AI Tech Lead, Mozn 🤝 Mohammed Noshin, Research Fellow, MIT Senseable City Lab 🤝 Seba AlMokdad, Machine Learning Researcher, American University of Sharjah 🤝 Onkar Naik, DevOps Engineer, Callsign 🤝 Maria D'Costa, Senior Software Engineer & Director of Women In Tech Dubai | Expensify 🤝 Mahira Pathan, Cloud Solution Engineer II, @Oracle This is what happens when the AI and Web3 communities stop talking past each other and start building together. Two days. Real work. Lasting connections. 🌐 Full day recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… #MENABlockchainWeek #MBCW2026 #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc | Google Developer Groups Sharjah @GDGSharjah_

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 6 Recap, May 23. 🇦🇪 One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 Creators met coders. Coders met builders. And everyone left with something new. Day 6 of MENA Blockchain Week 2026 was built for the people behind the content. The developers, creators, podcasters, streamers, and builders who show up not to watch the industry move, but to document it, build on it, and shape what it looks like next. Here is what happened: 🔷 Morning: GDG Google AI Weekend, Build with AI Edition x MENA Blockchain Week @GDGSharjah_ @Google The morning opened with one of the most hands-on sessions of the entire week. GDG Sharjah brought together technology enthusiasts of all levels for a full Build with AI workshop in collaboration with MENA Blockchain Week. A day of prototyping, building, and deploying applications using the latest Google AI technologies, including Gemini and Antigravity. This was not a lecture. It was a working session. 🔷 Afternoon: Creators Day Meetup The Creators Day Meetup brought together Dubai's Web3 content creators, podcasters, streamers, and digital builders at Hadron Founders Club, Alqouz for a focused afternoon of practical workshops, open networking, and industry insight. 🔷 Podcasting & Live Streaming Masterclass by AWPRO Hands-on sessions covering production fundamentals, streaming workflows, and building a digital content presence, delivered by one of the region's leading audio-visual production teams. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Shaji Shanmughan, Sales Director, AWPRO 🤝 Islam Bakr, Sales Executive, AWPRO 🤝 Kelvin Montalbo, Photographer & Speaker, AWPRO 🔷 Networking & Open Space The room opened up. Conversations continued. Connections were made. 🔷 Binance Square Workshop A platform-focused session giving creators a closer look at one of the most active content ecosystems in Web3, and what it takes to build a presence on it. 🤝 Ahmed Hanoun, Creator Partnership Manager, @binance @BinanceArabic Day 6 was a reminder that every builder in this industry needs a voice. And the creators in that room are building theirs. 🌐 Full recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… Stay tuned for Day 7 Recap 👇 #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc | Google Developer Groups Sharjah @GDGSharjah_ @Google

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 6 Recap, May 23. 🇦🇪 One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 🔷 GDG Google AI Weekend, Build with AI Edition x MENA Blockchain Week @GDGSharjah_ @Google GDG Sharjah partnered with MENA Blockchain Week for a full-day hands-on workshop where technology enthusiasts of all levels came together to prototype, build, and deploy applications using the latest Google AI technologies, including Gemini and Antigravity. Beginners and experienced developers in the same room, working on the same problems. This was not a lecture. It was a working session. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Ramesh Chander, Head of Developer Relations, MENA, Turkey & Africa, Google 🤝 Asma Ramadan, Digital Manager, e& @eAndUAE 🤝 Seba AlMokdad, Machine Learning Researcher, American University of Sharjah @AUSharjah 🤝 Mohammed Noshin, Research Fellow, MIT Senseable City Lab @MIT 🤝 Maria D'Costa, Senior Software Engineer & Director of Women in Tech, Dubai 🤝 Bahgat Ahmed, Senior Data Scientist & AI Tech Lead, Mozn 🤝 Onkar Naik, DevOps Engineer, Callsign 🤝 Mahira Pathan, Cloud Solution Engineer II, @Oracle 🌐 Full recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… Stay tuned for more from Day 6 👇 #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc | Google Developer Groups Sharjah @GDGSharjah_ @Google

Thanks for joining us @genspark_ai and especially for empowering women in web3 to learn all about AI from promoting and beyond 🔥 Congrats to Nassima Ahmed @tigertopaz3942 and the #GirlsWhoAI community ⚡️

The best events are measured by the smiles, not the slides. Ours came with pizza too. Anna MacMillan! 🙌💙 #MENABlockchainWeek

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 5 Recap 🇦🇪 May 22. One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 Day 5 ended the way it had to. 🔷 Evening: Bitcoin Pizza Day Meetup🍕 🍕The Bitcoin Pizza Day Meetup brought the Web3 community together at Hadron Founders Club for an evening with no agenda, no panels, and no pitch decks. Opening Remarks by Mohamad Alhusseini (@Moexba) and Saed Ereiqat set the tone. Then it was just community. Good conversations. Good energy. Actual pizza. 🤝 Mohamad Alhusseini, MoeX, Founder & Director, SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae 🤝 Saed Ereiqat, Director, Hadron Founders Club Stay tuned for Day 6 Recap 👇 🌐 Full recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 5 Recap 🇦🇪 May 22. One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 Day 5 of MENA Blockchain Week 2026 was the day the industry stopped talking about what tokenization could be and started accounting for what it already is. From a closed-door stablecoin conference at DMCC to fireside chats on the founder journey, from the hardest questions about institutional RWA demand to the most human tradition in crypto. 🔷 Middle East Stablecoin Association, MESA x DMCC x Dubai Digital Asset Association (D2A2) Stablecoin Conference The agenda went deep across six panels and a fireside chat. D2A2 and MESA opened on sovereignty and settlement. Zodia Markets and AD Ports tackled stablecoins as live treasury infrastructure. Fasset, RAKBank, and Zand went straight at what banks actually need. FinEthica Advisory held the sharpest fireside of the week on AML risk. CMS and Karm Legal on legal status and risk management. Aquanow and Polygon on what's actually live on stablecoin rails. BurjX and Binance closed on what exchanges need from issuers. Ledger and YAP Global were also in the room. Four hours. Seven sessions. 🔷 RWA & Tokenization Meetup 🔷 Panel 1: From Vault to Chain, Real-World Asset Tokenization and the Rise of On-Chain Finance Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Areeb Ahmad, Senior Associate, TLP Advisors 🤝 Jorge Carrasco, Managing Director, Blockchain and Digital Assets, FTI Consulting 🔷 Panel 2: Beyond the Buzz. Is There Real Institutional Demand for RWAs? Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Dr. Anna A. MacMillan, Co-Founder & COO, Mintlayer @annamacmillan 🤝 Jad Kachmar, Head of Operations, PRYPCO 🤝 Sebastian Agren, COO, Tribe 🤝 Saed Ereiqat, Director, Hadron Founders Club 🔷 Fireside Chat: Anton Golub x Sebastian Agren 🤝 Anton Golub, Founding Member, RWA Tokenization 🤝 Sebastian Agren, COO, Tribe 🔷 Fireside Chat: The Founders Guide to Investment 🤝 Balbinder Singh, Principal, Santos Family Office 🤝 CJ Anand, Director of Advisory, Ghaf Labs 🔷 Evening: Bitcoin Pizza Day Meetup The Bitcoin Pizza Day Meetup brought the Web3 community together at Hadron Founders Club for an evening with no agenda, no panels, and no pitch decks. 🤝 Mohamad Alhusseini, MoeX, Founder & Director, SkyNet X Solutions, SNXS.ae 🤝 Saed Ereiqat, Director, Hadron Founders Club 🌐 Full recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… Stay tuned for Day 6 Recap 👇 #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc | DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) @DMCCAuthority | Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA | Dubai Digital Asset Association (D2A2) @D2A2_official | Zodia Markets | @ADPortsGroup | @fasset | RAKBANK @RAKBANKlive | Zand @Official_Zand | FinEthica Advisory | CMS @CMS_Law_Tax | KARM Legal | Aquanow @aquanow | Polygon Labs @0xPolygon | BurjX @burjxofficial | @binance | @Ledger | YAP Global @YAPGlobalTeam | @TLPAdvisors | @FTIConsulting | @mintlayer | PRYPCO @prypcocom | Tribe | @GhafLabs | Santos Family Office

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 5 Recap 🇦🇪. May 22. One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 The stablecoin conversation the MENA region has been waiting for happened here. 🔷 Middle East Stablecoin Association, MESA x DMCC x Dubai Digital Asset Association (D2A2) Stablecoin Conference The day opened at the DMCC Crypto Center, Uptown Tower, the UAE's leading hub for crypto businesses and home to some of the region's most consequential Web3 conversations. A closed-door, by-invitation 4-hour conference hosted by the Middle East Stablecoin Association, DMCC Crypto Center, and the Dubai Digital Asset Association, bringing together the issuers, bankers, lawyers, technologists, and exchange operators actually shaping what comes next. The agenda went deep: 🔷 Panel 1: Sovereignty, Settlement & Strategic Positioning in the MENA Region 🤝 Saqr Ereiqat, Dubai Digital Asset Association (D2A2) 🤝 Ramy Soliman, Middle East Stablecoin Association, MESA 🤝 Maia Zennie, Middle East Stablecoin Association, MESA 🔷 Panel 2: Stablecoins as Treasury Infrastructure: Yield, Liquidity & Corporate Use Cases 🤝 Nick Philpott, Zodia Markets 🤝 Khaloud Alhammadi, AD Ports 🔷 Panel 3: What Banks Need Before They Touch Stablecoins 🤝 Mehtap Oender, Fasset 🤝 AbuBakar Mujahid, RAKBank 🤝 Mark NG, Zand 🔷 Fireside Chat: Who Owns the AML Risk, Issuer, VASP or Bank? 🤝 Ilham Tamimi, FinEthica Advisory 🔷 Panel 4: The Legal Status of a Stablecoin and Risk Management Strategies 🤝 Matthew Nyman, CMS 🤝 Akshata Namjoshi, Karm Legal Consultants 🔷 Panel 5: Building on Stablecoin Rails, Infrastructure, Interoperability & What's Actually Live 🤝 Aman Ghose, Aquanow 🤝 Jia-Tern Ng, Polygon 🔷 Panel 6: Listing, Custody & Market Making, What Exchanges Actually Need from Stablecoin Issuers 🤝 Omar Abbas, BurjX 🤝 Sami Khojali Mustafa, Binance 2026 is the year the region's stablecoin infrastructure starts to crystallize. The conversations from this room will shape how the MENA stablecoin market moves in the next decade. Stay tuned for Day 6 Recap 👇 🌐 Full recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae @Moexba | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc | DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) @DMCCAuthority | Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA | Dubai Digital Asset Association (@D2A2_official) | Zodia Markets | AD Ports Group @ADPortsGroup | Fasset @fasset | RAKBANK @RAKBANKlive | Zand @Official_Zand | FinEthica Advisory | CMS @CMS_Law_Tax | KARM Legal | Aquanow @aquanow | Polygon Labs @0xPolygon | BurjX @burjxofficial | @binance | @Ledger | YAP Global @YAPGlobalTeam

🔷Evening Recap: TCAE Crypto Compliance Fireside Chat & Networking Event. Compliance is not just a function. In the UAE, it is becoming a community. The day closed with a sold-out exclusive gathering for Crypto Compliance and AML professionals, hosted by TCAE MENA in partnership with MENA Blockchain Week at Hadron Founders Club. This one was not open to everyone. Built specifically for Compliance and AML professionals, the evening brought together the people navigating the hardest regulatory work in the region for a fireside discussion, insightful conversations, and open networking over light canapés and refreshments. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Dr. Mohamed Al Abdulla, Head of Anti-Financial Crimes, Ministry of Interior, Bahrain 🤝 Abdullah Alawi, Strategic Compliance Leader, Binance 🤝 Arushi Goel, Advisor, Chainalysis 🤝 Souzan Esmaili, Founder & CEO, TCAE & TCAE MENA The MENA region is not waiting to be regulated. It is shaping what regulation looks like for the rest of the world. Day 4 made that clear. 🌐 Full day recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… Stay tuned for Day 5 Recap #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 4 Recap 🇦🇪 One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 Day 4 Recap: Regulation, Security & Compliance. May 21st Regulation, Security & Compliance Day brought together the people who are actively building the legal and operational foundations that the entire digital assets industry depends on. Here is what happened: 🔷 Embodied AI Community Meetup, Bits & Atoms The day opened with a conversation at the intersection of physical and digital intelligence. 🔷 Regulation, Security & Compliance Meetup 🎤 Keynote: Regulation as Tokenisation Rails, The UAE Opportunity 🤝 Alenka Shmalko, Head of Tokenization at Atom Real Tokens, Advisor in Digital Assets & RWAs @alenka_on_x The opening keynote reframed how the room thinks about regulation. 🔷 Panel 1: Rules of the Region, How Regulatory Frameworks Are Shaping MENA Digital Assets VARA's framework is not a local story. It is becoming the blueprint the rest of the region is building around. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Igor Bershadsky, Chief Growth Officer, Hacken, @hackenclub 🤝 Paul Boots, Senior Director, Head of Sector Development, Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (@varadubai) 🤝 Marwan Hachem, CEO, @FearsOff 🤝 Alenka Shmalko, Head of Tokenization at Atom Real Tokens, Advisor in Digital Assets & RWAs 🔷 Panel 2: Built to Last. Security, Custody, and the Infrastructure Resilience Imperative Every institution moving on-chain eventually hits the same wall. Custody. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Gabriel Khoury, Senior Counsel, Silk Legal 🤝 Harshil Agarwal, Partner, @TLPAdvisors 🤝 Icaro Avelar, Head of Virtual Assets and Financial Regulations, Banks Legal & Corporate Services 🤝 Dr. Anna A. MacMillan, Co-Founder & COO, Mintlayer @annamacmillan @mintlayer 🔷 Panel 3: The Digital Economy. Crypto, RWAs & Payment The line between crypto rails and traditional payment infrastructure is not blurring. It is disappearing. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Lucy Balicki, OTC Distribution, Laser Digital 🤝 Chirag Mehta, CBO, Hedgit 🤝 Ali Boukhalfa, Head of MENA, P2P.Org, @P2Pvalidator 🤝 Chantal Bradford, Head of EMEA Market Sales, @coinbase 🔷 Panel 4: How Regulation and Security Are Shaping Real-World Utility Across Web3 and Emerging Tech Regulation without deployment is just paperwork. This panel showed what it looks like when the frameworks actually hit the ground. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Samy Tzaprenko, Co-Founder, Elios 🤝 Bindesh Vijayan, Co-Founder & CTO, Myndlab @Myndlab_ai 🤝 Raj Kamal, Founder & CEO, TransFi @getTransFi 🤝 Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy, Luna PR @LunaPRofficial 🔷 Evening: TCAE Compliance Event The day closed with an exclusive gathering for Crypto Compliance and AML professionals, hosted by TCAE MENA in partnership with MENA Blockchain Week. 🌐 Full day recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… Stay tuned for Day 5 Recap 👇 #MENABlockchainWeek #MENABCW #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc

Pride and Legacy Pledge: We were born in the heart of Dubai. 🇦🇪 One week. One city. One nation. 🇦🇪 MENA Blockchain Week did not happen in Dubai by accident. It was built here because this city builds dreams. It was built here because ambition has an address, and that address is the UAE. And a community that showed up from every corner of the world, onsite, hybrid, and remote, to be part of something that only Dubai could hold. Proud to pledge. Proud to belong. 🇦🇪 Honored and proud to sign the Pledge & Commitment. Sign yours here & join the movement. 🔗 pledge.ae #PledgeAndCommitment #عهد_ووعد #MENABlockchainWeek #ProudofUAE Dubai Media Office @DXBMediaOffice | UAE Government Media Office @UAEmediaoffice | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae | Mohamad AlHusseini @Moexba

Nomadz joined us at MENA Blockchain Week and took it beyond the stage with Crypto Padel Dubai🔥🔥. This is the community we're building. See you at the next chapter.@NOMADZxyz

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 3 Recap 🇦🇪 One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 The future of money moved through Dubai today, and the conversation was just getting started. We wrapped a powerful afternoon at the Stablecoins, Payments & Banking Day Meetup, hosted at Hadron Founders Club as part of MENA Blockchain Week 2026. From cross-border settlements to agentic payments, Day 3 made one thing clear: the rails are live, and the region is ready. 🔷 Event Host 🤝 Rudy Shoushany, Founder, DxTalks @rudyshoushany @dxtalks 🔷 Keynote 🤝 BK Kanjhan, Chief of Staff, Polygon Labs, @0xPolygon 🔷 Panel 1: Next-Generation Financial Rails, Stablecoins and Institutional Capital Flows The panel unpacked how stablecoins are reshaping institutional capital movement, cross-border finance, and the infrastructure underpinning global settlements. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Alenka Shmalko, Head of Tokenization at Atom Real Tokens, Advisor in Digital assets & RWAs @alenka_on_x 🤝 Pranav Agarwal, Director Investment, Ajna Capital 🤝 Yana Minaylova, Head of Institutional Sales & BD MENA, @Binance 🤝 Dr. Anna A. MacMillan, Co-Founder & COO, Mintlayer, @annamacmillan @mintlayer 🔷 Keynote 🤝 Ramez Rafeek, General Manager, AE Coin @AECoin_UAE 🔷 Panel 2: Settlement Without Borders, Cross-Border Payments in the Age of DLT From wallets to ramps to interoperability, this panel got into what it actually takes to move money globally on distributed rails. Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 BK Kanjhan, Chief of Staff, Polygon Labs @0xPolygon 🤝 Jad Eden, CEO, AION 🤝 Jia-Tern (JT) Ng, Director of Partnerships and DeFi, @0xPolygon 🤝 Faraj Abutalibov, Sr Advisor Middle East, @StellarOrg 🔷 New Money Rails: Stablecoins & Agents Workshop 🤝 Jad Eden, CEO, AION Stablecoins are no longer a prediction; they are the infrastructure. $33 trillion in transaction volume in 2025 alone, up 72% year on year. Reference: @Bloomberg This workshop closed the day with exactly the clarity founders and operators needed. Special thanks to Hadron Founders Club for hosting us! 🚀 Read our full recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… Stay tuned for Day 4 Recap! 👇 #MENABlockchainWeek #MBCW2026 #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc

MENA Blockchain Week, Day 2 Recap 🇦🇪 One City. One Week. One Nation. 🇦🇪 We just wrapped an incredible full day at the AI & Blockchain Innovation Meetup, part of MENA Blockchain Week 2026, and it was everything we hoped for and more. Opening Remarks: 🤝Joyce Achkar & 🤝Christine Bajjani, UNBOX Community 🔷 Panel 1: When Machines Run the Money, AI, Automation, and the Future of Financial Operations Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Alice L., @CoinMarketCap 🤝 Nabil Arnous, @InnovationCityX 🤝 Faraj Abutalibov, Stellar @StellarOrg 🤝 Mikael Boshian, SFTY AI 🔷 Panel 2: Power Behind the Trade, AI and Compute Infrastructure in Modern Financial Markets Thought leaders shaping the conversation: 🤝 Dr. Salahuddin Almohammadi, @HSAGroup_HQ 🤝 Nicolai Svistunov, Turtle @turtledotxyz 🤝 Leonardo De Fazio, SupernovaSolutions 🤝 Amna Usman Chaudhry 🔷 AI & Blockchain Workshop 🤝 Liwaa Chehayeb, what. AG 🔷 AI for Founders Workshop 🤝 Jean Claude Aoun, Tech Advisor & Founder @jeanclaudeaoun As the daytime sessions concluded, the conversations expanded beyond the stage. 🤝 Ghaf Labs × MENA Blockchain Week The evening brought together founders, investors, developers, and ecosystem leaders for a curated gathering hosted by Ghaf Labs. More than a networking event, it became a platform for meaningful discussions around investment, innovation, partnerships, and the future of Web3 across the MENA region. 🤝 Chiranjiv Anand (CJ), @GhafLabs 🔷 Hyperliquid UAE Community Meetup 🤝Juliet Su 苏丽, Hyperliquid UAE Community @JulietSu Special thanks to UNBOX Community & Ghaf Labs for hosting us! Stay tuned for Day 3 Recap! 👇 🚀 Read our full recap: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… #MENABlockchainWeek #MBCW2026 #ProudofUAE Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism @DubaiDET | SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae | Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc | UNBOX Community |