ZIGChain Summit 2025 Unveils $25 Million DeFAI Fund, Zamanat Platform

The inaugural ZIGChain Summit 2025, held in Dubai, marked a significant milestone in the evolution of decentralized wealth generation. The event brought together key figures from the traditional finance (TradFi), Web2, and Web3 sectors to unveil several groundbreaking initiatives. The summit introduced Zamanat, a Shariah-compliant Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization platform built on ZIGChain. This platform, developed by Disrupt.com, aims to democratize investments by adhering to ethical investing principles and transparency, thereby promoting financial inclusion. Zamanat will facilitate access to tokenized real-world assets such as real estate, Sukuks, private credit, invoice factoring, commodities, and other tangible assets, aligning with the UAE Government’s vision to become a global hub for digital assets and Islamic finance.

Another major announcement at the summit was the launch of a $25 million DeFAI Fund by ZIGLabs, Disrupt.com, and DWF Labs. This fund is dedicated to developing innovative solutions that integrate artificial intelligence with blockchain technology, focusing on advancing financial services, decentralized asset management, and digital wealth strategies. This initiative complements the $100 million ecosystem fund announced in April 2024 by ZIGLabs and various builder support programs, collectively known as “Kickstart.” These support mechanisms are expected to accelerate the development of the ZIGChain ecosystem, which already boasts a significant number of builders and partners.

The summit also revealed that the ZIGChain mainnet will go live on June 25, 2025. This launch date underscores ZIGChain’s readiness for retail onboarding, with over 10 teams already building decentralized applications (dApps) and protocols natively on the blockchain. Notable projects include Oroswap, an AI-powered conversational decentralized exchange (DEX), Permapod, a lending protocol that accepts RWAs as collateral, and Nawa Finance, a Sharia-compliant DeFi aggregator that has recently onboarded Amanie as Sharia Advisors. The community supporting these dApps is well-established, with Zignaly, which has over 1 million users, expected to be the flagship wealth management protocol on the blockchain. This ecosystem is attractive to both retail and institutional investors, with significant interest from leading figures in the UAE and global financial landscape, as well as from major venture builders and funds.

One of the key differentiators of ZIGChain is its wealth management engine, a modular investment management tech stack designed to enable anyone to launch a wealth creation protocol on ZIGChain. This technology aims to streamline the investment process by minimizing complexity, including time, skill, and knowledge barriers, thereby facilitating financial intermediation and broader global access via blockchain infrastructure. This vision has been the driving force behind ZIGChain since its inception in 2018, when the core founding team started Zignaly. The goal is to onramp a global majority that is disadvantaged from an income, knowledge, or domicile perspective when it comes to wealth generation opportunities, as evidenced by the 1 million strong community on Zignaly.

ZIGChain, a Layer 1 blockchain built for wealth generation, is powered by Zignaly’s established social investment infrastructure. Founded in 2018, Zignaly has served over 500,000 users and is now extending its investment-focused capabilities to Web3 through ZIGChain. The summit’s announcements and initiatives highlight ZIGChain’s commitment to building a future of inclusive, next-gen finance, where decentralized wealth generation is accessible to all.