Aptos Foundation partners with Daya and HashKey MENA to build regulated stablecoin corridor between Middle East and Africa
Aptos Foundation, Daya, and HashKey MENA announced plans for a regulated stablecoin payment corridor linking the Middle East and Africa. The setup is described as a B2B network using Gulf fiat on-ramps, settlement on Aptos, and local-currency withdrawals across African markets.
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Users, businesses, and payment firms that move money between the Gulf and African markets are the groups most directly affected today. The announcement points to a corridor that would connect those regions through regulated stablecoins, so the immediate change is the appearance of a named payment route rather than a finished operating network.
In practice, the setup shifts the described flow of funds into three stages: Gulf fiat on-ramps, stablecoin settlement on Aptos, and local-currency withdrawals in African markets. What stays the same is that the network is still only proposed, so none of those steps is described here as already broadly available.
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