Ahmad Nasser, Chief Post Trade Officer at the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, joins Lucy Gazmararian at the ADX as the exchange announces a landmark partnership with DFNS, bringing wallet infrastructure and on-chain tokenisation capabilities directly into the ADX ecosystem.
His framing of what this partnership actually enables is clear and deliberate: ADX already had digital bonds and tokenised equities in its vision. What was missing was the custody and wallet infrastructure layer that makes it all possible at institutional scale. DFNS provides exactly that, and this is the next phase of the exchange’s growth journey.
On the timeline for mass adoption, his read is measured and honest: the ADX is not waiting for the world to catch up. The exchange is building the infrastructure now so that when institutional capital is ready to move on-chain at scale, ADX is already the platform of choice.