Saudi Arabia is tokenizing its multi-trillion dollar economy to protect its wealth from global shocks

Saudi Arabia is moving to tokenize large parts of its economy, with droppRWA chairman Faisal Monai securing $12.5 billion in mandates to tokenise real estate and plans to extend onchain settlement to energy, manufacturing and other sectors. Monai expects stablecoin-based real-estate settlement to be live by late 2026 and a sovereign-grade, nationwide tokenized financial system by 2030. The article highlights an early proof — a Feb. 4 tokenized property-deed transfer that cut settlement from days to seconds — and places the development in the context of a growing stablecoin and tokenized-assets market (stablecoins >$300 billion mid-2026; tokenized assets ≈ $25 billion). Market implications include accelerated institutional adoption of stablecoins and tokenized RWAs, increased demand for blockchain settlement infrastructure and potential spillovers to crypto markets (notably Ethereum-based ecosystems) as Gulf and G20 jurisdictions adopt regulated tokenization rails.