Project 50% – How Economies Powered by Blockchain Level the Playing Field
Abu Dhabi Finance Week·Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 12:00 AM
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Good afternoon everybody. It's my honor to be here at the Abujabi Finance Week, one of the world's most forwardlooking conference on global finance. Today I want to share a simple and bold idea. The internet generation is creating a new onchain economy and within the next decades 50% of the global economic activity will run on blockchains. It's lot of speculation.
It's a generation that grew up in fi digital mobile and AI demand the financial infrastructure which match the world they live in. To understand this shift, we need to room out. Every decades brings a new infrastructural paradigm. The 1990s digital network, the 2000s mobile, 2010s cloud computing. Now the 2020s are bring something much bigger.
Pro programmable global ledger. It's a financial internet. For the internet generation value should move like information instantly globally 24 hours 7 days. Blockchain make this possible. This is economic upgrade for digital native global population.
Blockchain win because they fix the limitation of the system the internet generation inherited. They offer trustless programmable composable infrastructure, instant 24 hours, seven days global settlement, radical transparency that reduce systemic risk and open network instead of global financial silos. In every technology cycle, the more open, transparent and efficient system always wins and young generations adopt it first. This shift is not a hypothetical. It's already happened at enormous scale.
Stable coins now settle more than Visa. Over three trillion tokenized asset are on the blockchain. More than 500 million wallets exist in the world and a global regulator from UAE, United States, Singapore are established regulatory framework. The world is moving towards to a single global onchain finance operating system because a new generation expects it. The infrastructure is now production grade ready for institutions and hundred millions of transactions.
The security layer there are MPC pass key technology make it as safe as a bank account. The user experience layer there are abstract count there are gas list make the experience as same as web two. The performance layer there are lay to a lot of new blockchain they can execute a millions of transaction per millions. Compliance layer there are onchain identity onchain analytics and auditability are setting a new transparent standards. The technology is ready.
Compliance level is ready and the internet generation is ready. Here is one of the clearest signal. Bitcoin has become the gold of the internet generation. It is scales transparent, decentralized, independent of any state. Bitcoin is the first major asset in history primarily earned by people under 40.
People grew grow up global online and mobile. For them, digital value make much more sense than a physical gold. And now global financial institutions are at Bitcoin to their balance sheet. Bitcoin has crossed from autoative asset to a mainstream asset which proves that the world is ready for a programmable digital finance system. Let's look at the money itself.
Stable coin are become the new global payment rail especially for younger users and emerging markets. We see USD stable coin move trillions per month. AED Europe and other regional stable coin are become m mainstream finance programility enable instant settlement and compliance. Unchained transaction replace slow corresponding banks but the internet generation money should move like EMA instantly and globally the last front is much larger which is capital markets. So we see banks sovereign wealth funds and other managers are join the ecosystem.
We can see funds, treasures, the government bonds issued onchain which is traded 24 hours, seven days. The liquidity and the pricing is transparent. There are also robust compliance control. So tokenize is not just experiment. It's becoming the default infrastructure for modern financial markets.
The next decade is not about crypto adoption. is about a generation shifting how the world economy works for internet generation. The money will be onchain, market will be onchain, identity onchain, commerce will be onchain, everything will be onchain. When we put all these piece together, a cano architecture comes for the internet generation economy. Blockchain will be a global financial intellect.
Everybody will get a universal onchain identity. Everybody can get a true self-custody wallet. You control your money yourself. L key lot of money. All of this blockchain can interact with each other across different jurisdictions.
And there are real time transparency and auditability. This is a blueprint of a global onchain economic system designed for for a population that leaves fully online not because it's trendy but because it's a much better system. Thank you.
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