Bassel Sabri

Egypt’s biggest bottleneck for premium travel isn’t infrastructure. Dr. Mohamed Kaoud, Founder and CEO of Egyliere, tells @BasselSabri “the bottleneck for us at the moment I would say seats.”

A factory’s quality record is only trustworthy if the footage can’t be edited after the fact. Prof. Wael Badawy, Member of the Research Council on Communication and Information Technologies and patent holder in computer vision tells @BasselSabri how AI cameras keep inspection evidence tamper-proof.

“It’s really not a stablecoin. It’s a pegged coin.” Jack McInerney, Founder of Renewal Coin, tells @BasselSabri which promise comes first.

What makes an Egyptian manufacturer switch to a fintech factor? Speed gets attention, but it doesn’t win the deal. Alaa Khalifa, Founder & CEO of Digital Experts Marketing Consultancy, tells @BasselSabri “reliable funding and transparent pricing win the business.”

If a cross-border payment goes wrong, who is accountable? One founder says her company is. @LolaOye, Founder & CEO of @AnyfloHQ, tells @BasselSabri “you will never hear us say it was not us.”

Private credit has strong legal frameworks and robust yields, but access has always been the barrier. Dr. Alessio Marinelli, Founder & CEO of @credilabs, tells @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt the mission is to become the infrastructure layer connecting investors to private credit opportunities.

Live from @NYSE, @thummelrob (Tortoise Capital) joins @RemyBlaireNews. Plus, Dr. Alessio Marinelli (@credilabs) sat down with @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt.

Reinsurance has historically been accessible only to pension funds and private equity, and putting it on-chain changes that. @Ayyanrahman, Co-Founder & CSO of @onrefinance, tells @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt they underwrite property catastrophe risk across hurricanes, earthquakes, and typhoons, opening the asset class to anyone and making it tradable 24/7.

Most bitcoin:native sits idle and @ZestProtocol is building a different path through native collateral vaults. Co-Founder @TychoOnnasch tells @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt the model mirrors how gold works: “Bitcoin stays put while its value works elsewhere,” turning it into productive capital without wrapping or bridging.

Before an Egyptian company goes abroad, one adviser says it has to answer a single question. @Nadim_Samna, Managing Partner at Stratexis, tells @BasselSabri it’s “why should a customer in that market buy from you?” Expansion creates value when it “multiplies the strengths you already have domestically.”

Accountable V2 is chapter two for institutional finance on-chain. @AccountableData CEO & Co-Founder @WojtekP sat down with @BasselSabri at @DeFinition_evt to break down what V2 adds, from fund admin and ratings to modular vaults, and why the end-to-end model matters for institutions bringing their business on-chain. 00:00 Intro 00:44 Accountable Verifies Institutional Data Without Ever Seeing It 02:00 Accountable V2 Is Built To Be The End-To-End Stack 03:25 Vault Answers Yes To Everything Institutions Want 04:47 Most Yield Opportunities Are Still Off-chain 05:51 TVL Shows Distribution, Not The Whole Picture 06:58 The RockawayX Rating Scores Transparency

Samsung is bringing @solana stablecoins into Samsung Wallet, starting with 82 million users in the US. Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer at the Solana Foundation, tells @BasselSabri it’s “a historic moment for the adoption of crypto globally.” #token2049 #singapore

Tokenised equities are getting the attention, but one risk-cover provider says they’re still “billions versus the trillions.” Ralf Taner, Head of Business Development at @NexusMutual, tells @BasselSabri what excites him more is issuers and protocols coming to Nexus “seeking our input even before launch.”

Accountable V2 is here, marking the company's next chapter. @WojtekP, Co-Founder & CEO of @AccountableData, tells @BasselSabri the new version expands into fund admin services and financial statements, aiming to be an end-to-end provider so clients "don't need another service provider" for anything else. 🎙️ Live from @DeFinition_evt

Nigeria's equity market capitalisation has jumped from under $40 billion to about $112 billion. Senator Dr. Osita Izunaso, Chairman of Nigeria's Senate Committee on Capital Markets and Financial Institutions, tells @BasselSabri the $2.1 trillion naira Dangote Refinery IPO is "a people's IPO" modeled on Saudi Aramco's 2019 listing, and expects it to be oversubscribed.

Someone could be stealing your encrypted data right now, not to read it today, but to unlock it once quantum computers catch up. Joshua Ashley Klayman Kuzar, Firm-Wide Co-Lead of Digital Assets at @AshurstPerkins, tells @BasselSabri it's called "harvest now, decrypt later," and it's already a board-level priority, not a far-off Y2K-style risk.