Ever wonder who's actually behind ASK Group? @askgroupae was founded by @asknahyan Sheikh Ahmed bin Sultan bin Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. "bin" means "son of" in Arabic. Follow the chain: Ahmed → son of Sultan → son of Khalifa → son of Zayed. That last name is the one that matters. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the Founding President of the UAE. The man who unified a collection of desert sheikhdoms into one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Sheikh Khalifa, his son, led the UAE from 2004 to 2022. The lineage, straight down: 🟡 Sheikh Zayed — UAE Founding President (1971–2004) ↓ Sheikh Khalifa — UAE President (2004–2022) ↓ Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan ↓ Sheikh Ahmed — Founder & President, ASK Group And the company name? ASK = Ahmed Sultan Khalifa. His initials. His lineage. The name IS the family tree. The scale behind it: $300B Al Nahyan family estimated net worth ~9% of global proven oil reserves held by Abu Dhabi $1.5T ADIA, their sovereign wealth fund, assets under management This isn't just a business partner. It's a dynasty that built the UAE, with the access, capital, and credibility to shape what the Gulf does next. @KeetaNetwork is building alongside them. #Kta #UAE #AlNahyan #RWA #Tokenization @schenkty @aayushk_5 @thakkerpunit

🇦🇪 ADIA. One of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. Most people have never heard of it. ADIA = Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi. Its job: take surplus oil revenues and invest them globally to grow wealth for future generations. Not a ministry. Not a regulator. An investment engine. How big? Estimates put it at $1 trillion . When capital at this scale moves, markets move with it. What does it invest in? 📈 Global stocks 🏛️ Bonds 🏢 Real estate ⚡ Infrastructure 🏦 Private equity 🛡️ Hedge funds 💳 Private credit It invests alongside BlackRock, KKR and Apollo. Long time horizon. Patient capital. Important nuance. ADIA cannot issue crypto licences, approve banks, or set policy. It's not a regulator. But it doesn't need to be. It influences entire sectors simply through where it chooses to allocate. ADIA vs Mubadala vs ADQ — three very different mandates: 🔵 ADIA → global wealth preservation & growth 🟢 Mubadala → strategic stakes, tech & national development 🟡 ADQ → infrastructure, food, logistics & utilities Know the difference. They're not interchangeable. So why does this matter for Keeta ($KTA)? The @askgroupae , @KeetaNetwork's UAE partner operates within this institutional ecosystem. You don't need ADIA to directly hold $KTA for this to be relevant. When sovereign capital at this scale orients toward payments infrastructure, tokenisation, and RWA projects already aligned with that direction get pulled into the current. Keeta is building exactly where Abu Dhabi's long-term capital is looking. 👀 #ADIA #KTA #AbuDhabi #ASKGroup #RWA #Tokenisation #Crypto #Web3‌‌ @schenkty @asknahyan

This is exactly how I feel... great post @Brown_Thunder76 Keep them coming.

There’s a sleeping L1 gem everyone is overlooking right now and in the next 5 minutes, I’ll tell you exactly why; Currently there is only around $27 Billion Dollars of RWAs on-chain across all blockchains. The Al Nahyan family - the second wealthiest family on Earth with a net worth of around $335 Billion USD - controls approximately 6% of the world's oil reserves through the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, representing roughly $8.46 Trillion USD in oil wealth alone. They also produce approximately 4.5 million barrels per day, generating something in the range of $120–130 billion USD in annual gross revenue. It is this family that Keeta $KTA has entered a joint venture with through ASK Group @askgroupae, founded by H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Bin Sultan Bin Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. In a bear case where Keeta only manages to tokenize just ONE % of Abu Dhabi's reserve value and it eventually finds representation as tokenized assets on Keeta's Network that would roughly $84.6 BILLION Dollars in on chain RWAs. That's around 3.3x times more than the total market cap of all RWA's today across all chains, and remember that's just in the case that they tokenize JUST 1%. And this goes far beyond oil. The joint venture includes gold, silver, copper, and a wider basket of Gulf industrial metals. The UAE is already one of the world’s largest commodity trading hubs, with hundreds of billions flowing annually through the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange. It also includes cross-border payments across some of the largest remittance corridors on earth, with the UAE–India corridor alone moving over $20 Billion USD annually. And @askgroupae - linked to the wider royal Al Nahyan family - holds rights to Keeta’s presence across the UAE, the Middle East, India, and Africa. As of writing this, $KTA sits at just a $100 Million marketcap today - lower than the market caps of some memecoins and dino chains. Yet the upside scenario people are overlooking is exposure to markets measured in the hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars. The deal isn't hypothetical - it's signed, and integration is already underway. Keeta is probably one of, if not the ONLY chain that is able to represent and facilitate this through its tech; Keeta settles transactions faster and at a much larger scale than anyone else, with compliance built into the protocol. Chains like $XRP have been trying to achieve something similar for the past 14 years, reaching a $200 Billion market cap largely on speculation that they could eventually make it work in some form, somewhere, at some point, somehow. Well, they can’t and their chains will be driven by this same speculation that they could eventually make it work in some form, somewhere, somehow for the next 14 years as well. Keeta is aiming to accomplish what Ripple couldn’t within a year of its public existence. Now imagine what they will achieve in the next one, two, or five years. This could end up being one of the biggest opportunities in the market.

Thats what im talking about…. 🚀 keeta:native

The @KeetaNetwork x @askgroupae Group deal is one of the most significant blockchain partnerships to come out of the Middle East. Here's what makes it different. THE SCALE ASK Group doesn't manage a portfolio, it manages an ecosystem. Real estate. Private equity. Commodities. Assets that have moved the same way for decades, across one of the most capital-dense regions on earth. THE INFRASTRUCTURE Keeta isn't a crypto project chasing yield. It's the settlement layer: programmable, compliant pipes that let tokenized real-world assets move across borders instantly. This is the plumbing the Middle East has been missing. THE MANDATE Sheikh Ahmed bin Sultan Al Nahyan @asknahyan : "As a global financial center, the UAE is determined to lead the world as we enter this new era. This joint venture is a long-term commitment to building the infrastructure that will define how trillions of dollars in real-world assets move." This isn't about one deal. It's about who builds the financial infrastructure of the Middle East for the next 50 years. Keeta and ASK Group are building it together. #Keeta #UAE #RWA #BlockchainInfrastructure @schenkty @thakkerpunit @aayushk_5

Connect the dots…. Some of us are starting to understand how big @KeetaNetwork will actually grow. Imagine everyone in the world using something whilst most are unaware it even exists. Many think Keeta is built for retail. Its not! Big Institutions will want to keep this quiet whilst they get everything setup and ready, but some will try to tell you whats happening behind closed doors. Some believe UAE is the end game. Im Telling you its just the beginning. $KTA @schenkty

Bitcoin.com just covered the @KeetaNetwork x @askgroupae partnership and this is worth breaking down properly. @asknahyan and @KeetaNetwork have launched a joint venture to build a public exchange that converts physical Gulf assets, oil, gold, silver and copper into fractional digital tokens, each backed 1-to-1 by audited reserves. Target launch is 2027. This is not ETFs or futures. This is direct ownership of the physical asset, settled in 400 milliseconds, with on-chain proof of reserves in real time. Investors from Tokyo to London get the same access that was previously only available to large institutions. On the payments side, the UAE is one of the biggest remittance origination hubs in the world. The UAE to India corridor alone moves $20 billion a year, with major pipelines to Pakistan, the Philippines and Kenya on top of that. The joint venture deploys Keeta's anchor model, letting licensed banks and exchange houses plug into the Layer 1 network via a single SDK, no intermediary banks, transfers settled in under half a second. The infrastructure behind this has been stress tested alongside Google's Spanner engineering team and verified at 11.2 million transactions per second. Under the exclusive agreement, @askgroupae will manage and scale this across UAE, the broader MEA region and India. The UAE blueprint comes first, then it rolls out across the wider GCC. The rails are being built. The exchange is coming. @schenkty @ericschmidt @gabe_schenk Full Article news.bitcoin.com/ask-group-t…

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One of my pet peeves in the blockchain industry are specialist chains — and the logical fallacy surrounding them. We need $HYPE and $ASTER for trading, because there are simply too many orders for a generic chain to handle the volume We need @arc and @tempo, because predictable fees and fast finality are simply impossible elsewhere — definitely not just to make our shareholders happy We need $PLUME for RWAs, because… why do we need it again? What you need is one good chain that can do its job at scale: Move value. I remember being at a VIP side event where supposed “experts” were asked rapidfire questions: “One chain to rule them all? Yes/No” The stage was filled with the quickest drawn “No” signs that session has seen. Only the lady representing Visa hadn’t answered and instead declined the question. I found myself standing up and my emotions must have been showing because this guy next to me was giving me a weird look.. idiots I just found this statement so incredibly stupid. These supposed experts, and really not just them but everyone, is ignoring the most fundamental law of the internet: The network effect. It’s what made the giants like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and… Google into the who they are today and this is precisely what will make @KeetaNetwork the largest financial innovation of the web3 era. $KTA

Thank you everyone :) Stay tuned 🔥🔥 a lot more coming for the community and the disruptive technology meant globally as the next-gen infra together with the interoperability layer - super excited to what’s coming next 🚀🚀 Built for the world. Built for what’s next. 🔥🚀

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last 24 hours digging into the ASK partnership. The more I read, the bigger this thing looks. First, this isn’t just a partnership. It’s a joint venture. There’s a huge difference. A partnership is two companies agreeing to work together. A joint venture is both sides putting skin in the game and building something together. Then I started looking into ASK. This isn’t some random crypto company. ASK is one of the largest private groups in the UAE with interests spanning finance, infrastructure, commodities, trade, and investment. Then you get to the leadership. His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan isn’t just another executive. He’s a member of the Al Nahyan family, the ruling family of Abu Dhabi. His grandfather was President of the UAE. His father was President of the UAE. His uncle is the current President of the UAE. Let that sink in for a minute. Now add in Punit Thakker. Most people probably skimmed right past his name. I didn’t. This guy has spent more than 20 years building payment infrastructure across the Middle East, India, and Asia. PayPal. Checkout. Telr. PayTabs. He’s helped build payment networks processing billions of dollars and has worked directly with institutions helping shape digital finance policy across the Gulf. That’s not the type of person you bring in for a small project. Remember, Keeta isn’t trying to build another crypto ecosystem. It’s trying to build financial infrastructure. When you combine a UAE royal family-backed joint venture, a fintech veteran with deep regional connections, and a network built for compliance, payments, tokenization, and interoperability… You start to understand why they keep talking about trillions. Not because trillions are flowing tomorrow. But because that’s the size of the markets they’re targeting. Oil. Gold. Silver. Copper. Cross-border payments. Trade finance. Real-world assets. Here’s what really caught my attention. Most projects spend years trying to get a seat at the table. These guys already seem to be sitting at it. A member of the UAE’s ruling family. One of the largest private business groups in the region. Fintech executives who have spent decades building payment infrastructure throughout the Middle East and Asia. And Keeta providing the technology layer. That’s an incredibly powerful combination. The market can believe it or not. Personally, I think people are dramatically underestimating what was announced yesterday and the scale of what they’re trying to build. This isn’t a swing at millions. It isn’t a swing at billions. It’s a swing at trillions. @KeetaNetwork @askgroupae $KTA

Punit Thakker is the Executive Director of Fintech, Digital Assets, and Blockchain at @askgroupae the group behind $KTA Keeta's joint venture to tokenize Gulf commodities and modernize cross-border payments across the UAE, MEA, and India. Punit has over 20 years of fintech infrastructure experience across MENA, APAC, and India - with founding team roles at some of the region's most significant payments companies: - @PayPal India: Part of the team that brought PayPal into one of the world's largest and most complex remittance markets, laying the groundwork for digital payments adoption across the subcontinent. - @Checkout: One of the most widely used enterprise payment processors globally, built for high-volume, cross-border transactions across financial institutions and merchants at scale who had total of $300 Billion Dollars of total volume of ecommerce payments in 2025 alone. - @TelrDotCom: A UAE-based payment gateway built specifically for MENA's merchant and e-commerce infrastructure, operating across some of the region's fastest-growing digital economies. - @PayTabs: A MENA-focused payment solutions provider that became core infrastructure for businesses processing transactions across the Gulf and beyond. Across all four, Punit was on the ground building culminating in MENA's largest payments switch, processing over $2.6 billion across 28 countries. Beyond building, Punit advises at the policy level. As Senior Advisor at Kearney FIG, he consults directly with the institutions defining how digital finance moves in the Gulf: - Central Bank of UAE @centralbankuae - Dubai International Financial Centre @DIFC - Abu Dhabi Global Market @ADGlobalMarket All three on stablecoin regulation and tokenization frameworks. Now At @askgroupae, he leads the execution of the joint venture with @KeetaNetwork, focused on tokenizing Gulf commodities and modernizing cross-border payment infrastructure across the UAE, MEA, and India, putting Keeta at the center of this institutional push. Someone with this kind of background isn’t brought in to work on small-scale initiatives, but on market-changing ones. Punit is extremely well connected and has deep knowledge and years of experience in the market, which positions him to help Keeta succeed in its mission both in the region and globally.

Cross-border payments are broken. Not slow. Not inefficient. Broken. Every $1 you send abroad gets: FX’d rerouted pre-funded reconciled delayed You’re not “sending money.” You’re feeding a banking maze. Keeta Network changes that. No maze. No middlemen. No 3–5 day settlement cycle. Just value moving across borders in a single flow. Old system: Bank → correspondent bank → FX desk → local bank → payout agent Keeta: Value moves once. Cleanly. Directly. This is what $1T in cross-border flows looks like when you strip out legacy rails. Not an upgrade. A rewrite. @KeetaNetwork @askgroupae @schenkty @asknahyan #DeFi #Payments #Fintech

This is what people need to understand about @KeetaNetwork x @askgroupae : The Royal Family of the UAE does not put its name behind random crypto projects. That matters. The Royal Family of the UAE has reputation, legacy, national credibility, and serious institutional relationships to protect. They are not going to casually attach themselves to something that could tarnish that. So when ASK Group, led by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Sultan, forms a joint venture with Keeta, that is a massive signal. In His Highness his words: The UAE doesn’t wait for the future, it creates it. This is not just another L1 trying to get attention. This is Keeta being positioned as the backbone of a multi-trillion-dollar financial transformation, powering cross-border remittances, tokenized commodities, real-world assets, audited custody, on-chain proof of reserves, institutional-grade settlement, and the financial rails connecting the UAE to the global economy. This is the kind of infrastructure that could redefine how value moves around the world. That is the part the market has not yet priced in. Once people understand the weight of the Royal Family of the UAE being involved, the rest becomes much easier to understand. Keeta is no longer just another crypto. It is becoming real financial infrastructure. ELI5: Imagine one of the most powerful and reputation-conscious families in the world saying: “We are backing this technology to help build the next version of global finance.” Think of it like this: The Royal Family of the UAE has far too much reputation at stake to casually endorse something unreliable. Their involvement suggests they see Keeta as technology that could play a real role in how money, assets, and value move around the world in the future. TLDR: The Royal Family of the UAE does not casually back crypto. Their involvement with Keeta is the signal. Everything else follows from that. keeta:native

Lets start to decode yesterday breaking news. The first and most obvious question is What is ASK Group @askgroupae. I will break it down into the following sections: 1) What is ASK Group UAE @askgroupae 2) The partnership 3) Why it matters 4) Who owns ASK UAE DECODED: What is ASK Group? Most people have never heard of ASK Group. That's about to change. ASK Group is a Dubai-based investment and operating company founded by Sheikh Ahmed bin Sultan bin Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan @asknahyan , a member of the UAE's founding royal family and grandson of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the man who unified the Emirates and built one of the most remarkable nations in modern history. Sheikh Ahmed's father is Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, son of the UAE's first president. That lineage matters, not just symbolically, but practically. The Al Nahyan family has been the driving force behind the UAE's transformation from a small Gulf federation into a global financial, technological, and cultural hub. ASK Group sits squarely in that tradition of building things that matter. ----------------------------------------------------------- So what does ASK Group actually do? Think of it less like a traditional conglomerate and more like a strategic investment platform. One that backs founders, operators, and institutions looking to scale across the UAE and beyond. The Group operates across four core pillars: Real Estate: Luxury property development and strategic land investment across the UAE and international markets. This is the foundation of the business, long-term, high-value assets built to complement the UAE's Vision 2031 growth agenda. Sport: Sheikh Ahmed is the president of Palm City FC and has a broader investment thesis around football, wellness, and lifestyle. Sport in the UAE is not just entertainment. It's nation-branding, and ASK Group understands that intersection well. Technology: Investments in AI, fintech, and digital infrastructure. The UAE has set an explicit goal of becoming a global technology hub, and ASK Group is positioned to back the companies building that future. Web3 & Decentralised Finance: This is where things get particularly interesting, and it's the reason we're talking about ASK Group right now. ----------------------------------------------------------- The @KeetaNetwork Partnership. The real game changer. In early 2026, ASK Group signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Keeta, a Layer 1 blockchain platform backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The partnership is focused on commodity tokenisation: putting real-world assets, think physical commodities, raw materials, land, infrastructure; onto the blockchain in a way that is transparent, efficient, and accessible. This is not speculative crypto. This is the application of blockchain technology to tangible, real-world economic activity. What makes this particularly significant is the context. The UAE sits at the crossroads of the world's major commodity flows; oil, gas, gold, agriculture, and has spent the last decade building the regulatory and financial infrastructure to become the global capital of decentralised finance. ASK Group's partnership with Keeta is a direct play on that positioning. @schenkty with the Keeta team visited Dubai earlier this year to sign the the partnership contract. They stood, with the ASK team at the Museum of the Future, arguably the most symbolic building in the UAE. The photo at the top of this card is from that day. ----------------------------------------------------------- Why does this series exist? Because the intersection of old money and new technology rarely gets covered well. Most Web3 content is noise. Most coverage of Gulf royal families is surface-level. I wanted to go deeper on both, and this partnership gave me the right story to do it with. Over the next cards I break down exactly how the ASK × Keeta partnership works, why commodity tokenisation on a UAE-backed Layer 1 blockchain matters globally, and a deeper look at the family structure and vision behind ASK Group. Follow along for more insight. #UAEDecoded #ASKGroup #Keeta #Dubai #Web3 #UAE @gabe_schenk @aayushk_5 @HHShkMohd

They’re announcing the tokenization of hundreds of billions of dollars of oil and gold from inside “The Museum of the Future” and you’re waiting for someone to tell you how insane this is? This will be picked up by major news outlets. You heard it first on X. $KTA

It has been a privilege spending time with the @KeetaNetwork team and working hand in hand on the initiatives we are building together. What @schenkty and his team have achieved is genuinely remarkable, a blockchain network independently verified at 11.2 million transactions per second with 400 millisecond settlement finality, tested in collaboration with Google’s own engineering team. The fact that @ericschmidt , who has spent his career identifying tech that changes the trajectory of industries, has chosen to back this network speaks to the depth of what has been built. We are at an early stage of a long journey, and I say that with full awareness of how much work lies ahead. Ambition without humility is just noise. What gives me confidence is not only the technology but the environment in which we are building it. The UAE has created something rare, a regulatory and institutional ecosystem that takes innovation seriously without sacrificing the rigour that global capital markets demand. None of what we are working toward would be possible without the UAE’s continued and unwavering commitment to building the conditions for the next generation of global finance. I am genuinely grateful for that. I also want to acknowledge His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Sultan bin Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan @asknahyan, his leadership, vision, and belief in what we are building at ASK Group has made this partnership possible. This is a reflection of his long term commitment to ensuring the UAE leads and not follows, in the industries that will define the global economy. At ASK Group, we believe that the most meaningful contributions are the ones built quietly, carefully, and with a genuine sense of responsibility to the markets and communities we serve. That is the spirit in which we are approaching this partnership, and everything that comes next.

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