2025-12-12 03:29:45

Worldpay Global's Ahmed Zifzaf dropped an interesting take at a recent Solana conference: he's calling UAE "the modern Silk Road hub" for digital payments.

His reasoning? The cross-border payment volumes and per-capita remittance flows there are hitting levels you just don't see in most other markets. Pretty compelling case for why the region matters for blockchain payment infrastructure.

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HodlTheDoor

· 19h ago

The idea of the UAE as a payment hub is indeed interesting, but whether it can truly be implemented depends on whether these flows can actually be brought onto the chain.

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SolidityJester

· 19h ago

UAE is truly amazing. The data for cross-border payments is right there. No hype, no negativity—this is exactly where Web3 should be heading.

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MidnightMEVeater

· 19h ago

Good morning everyone, I saw this kind of rhetoric at 3 am... UAE Modern Silk Road? Listen, this is a textbook example of a "liquidity trap." High remittance flow = high fee margins, combined with miner tips and sandwich attacks, the real profits are never from the payments themselves but from arbitrage robots eating the spread in these transactions. Worldpay's words are well put, but don't be fooled by the arbitrage window—it's just saying "there's a lot of profit here."

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BearMarketMonk

· 19h ago

The UAE Silk Road meme is quite clever; remittance traffic is indeed a breakthrough opportunity.

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ProveMyZK

· 20h ago

UAE's move is indeed well played; just the remittance sector alone is enough to support the entire payment ecosystem.

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