COTI Announces the Africa Tokenization Council, Alongside Strategic Partners
Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 5th, 2025, Chainwire
COTI is proud to announce the Africa Tokenization Council, launched alongside strategic partners to drive AI and blockchain adoption across Africa and the Middle East. This progressive initiative will bring together African officials with global leaders in blockchain and tokenization to boost investment in innovation across its focus regions.
African countries are increasingly making their mark on the global stage, driven by growing tech-savvy populations with a rising interest in digital assets. The Africa Tokenization Council will bring leaders, investors, and practitioners together through a series of symposiums focused on the partnerships, regulatory pathways, practices, and investments required to enable a thriving tokenization ecosystem across the MENA region and broader Africa. By collaborating on the standards and paths that enable the perfection of ownership and modernization of regulatory structures, this initiative aims to build the bridges necessary to attract multilateral international investment and accelerate the viability of RWA and tokenization in the region.
Vast Market Potential
The economic landscape coupled with a boom of technically savvy and fintech minded start-ups and regulatory changes in MENA and broader Africa, presents a tremendous opportunity for investors and the advancement of the RWA and Tokenization industry as a whole. Taken together, Africa and the wider MENA region have a collective GDP of over $5 trillion and proven history of leapfrogging traditional economic environments in mobile, fintech, and crypto adoption.
It is the stance of the Africa Tokenization Council, thanks to the direct involvement of high-level figures (Government, investors, and practitioners) and esteemed Saudi Arabian Leadership, alongside COTI leaders and best-of-class compliant privacy technology that the same leapfrogging pattern will persist in the RWA and Tokenization space.
Dr Mansour Almalik holds a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University and has over 23 years of experience in government and academia. He served as Senior Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and has represented Saudi Arabia in the United Nations’ Science and Technology Committee. Dr Almalik is the Chairman of Attwar Group, a holding company with diverse interests in energy, fintech, and artificial intelligence.
Alaa Bishara, is an entrepreneur and crypto investor with a strong foundation in traditional real estate and a deep enthusiasm for blockchain and digital innovation. With extensive experience managing portfolios for high-net-worth individuals, he has successfully bridged the worlds of real estate, fintech, and financial services. His passion for blockchain technology led him to Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization—a sector that unites his expertise and vision for the future. Through strategic collaborations with leading blockchain developers, he is driving the adoption of digital technologies across diverse projects, aiming to enhance economic freedom and unlock new financial opportunities on a global scale.
Dr Mansour and Mr Bishara join COTI’s CEO, Shahaf Bar-Geffen, and Chief Ecosystems and Partnerships Officer, Joshua Maddox, as members of the Africa Tokenization Council.
Tokenized Africa Council Global Events Schedule
The Africa Tokenization Council will get underway this year with a series of strategic symposiums and roundtables that will create direct pathways between African government blockchain initiatives, global investors, and technical experts.
The Council’s events will convene a diverse group of stakeholders, including:
- Forward-thinking practitioners seeking to drive the adoption of tokenization to boost economic growth and financial inclusion.
- Government officials, policymakers and regulatory bodies exploring blockchain integration.
- Experienced investors both local and national seeking opportunities in tokenized assets within African markets
- Technical implementers and blockchain developers, for example, COTI’s technical infrastructure for tokenization projects.
- Distribution channels facilitating dissemination and adoption of tokenized assets across various sectors.
Outcomes and findings of the Africa Tokenization Council events will be analyzed, risk-assessed, made available to all key stakeholders with the intent of developing strategic investments, driving forward the practical implementation of blockchain and tokenization initiatives.
COTI: A Core Infrastructure Provider for the Africa Tokenization Council
As one of the core blockchain infrastructure providers, COTI will contribute to driving AI and blockchain at a grassroots level. As COTI uniquely offers compliant “Privacy on Demand”, we have the ability to be inclusive, welcoming and championing participation by other prominent blockchains, including their providers and partners.
COTI delivers a fast, lightweight and scalable privacy layer for AI and blockchain-driven initiatives. Its advanced privacy technology provides on-chain, permissioned privacy, that directly addresses the concerns around data privacy and regulatory compliance – issues that have typically hindered real-world asset (RWA) adoption.
Real-world assets, spanning natural resources, infrastructure, and financial instruments, are a multi-trillion-dollar segment of TradFi that is gradually being moved on-chain. However, institutions have been hesitant to deploy on blockchain without robust confidentiality measures. The transparency of public blockchains raises compliance issues for corporations where user data must remain confidential.
COTI bridges this gap by providing permissioned privacy, allowing permissioned bodies to access the necessary compliance and reporting data without exposing sensitive information on-chain.
The true game-changer, however, lies in the scale of tokenization projects that can be built using COTI’s infrastructure and with strategic blockchain partners. The African Tokenization Council is designed to support national infrastructure tokenization that, by definition, operates at the scale of national economies. By establishing blockchain-powered transparency and efficiency at this level, COTI’s infrastructure stands to play a pivotal role in the next era of economic digitization across MENA and broader Africa.
Privacy is the missing piece that institutions need to adopt blockchain in a meaningful way. As JP Morgan has recently noted, scaling tokenization efforts requires comprehensive privacy and integrated identity solutions–both of which COTI can deliver.
