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Solana Foundation Signs MOU With Kazakhstan To Launch Solana Economic Zone

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The Solana Foundation has extended its streak of victories with the announcement of a partnership with Kazakhstan to establish a special economic zone. Dubbed the Solana Economic Zone, the collaboration brings Kazakhstan one step closer to its goals of digitization as Solana continues to court institutional interest.

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Solana Foundation Launches Solana Economic Zone

Members of the Solana Foundation converged in Kazakhstan to launch a Solana Economic Zone in collaboration with the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry (MDAI). According to an official report, parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to roll out the Solana Economic Zone Kazakhstan (SEZ KZ), the first of its kind in Central Asia.

The signing event took place in the capital of Astana, attracting a bevy of blockchain experts, regulators, and key opinion leaders. Representatives of the Solana Foundation and MDAI disclosed that the zone will yield a raft for both parties.

For starters, the Solana Economic Zone will incubate a raft of digital asset service providers for Kazakhstan while providing investor engagement for fledgling startups. Parties are hoping to recreate the successes of the Dubai Multi Commodities Center (DMCC), tipping the zone to serve as a “launchpad for pilot projects.”

The signing event unveiled three onjectives with the first being the promotion of the tokenized capital markets within Kazakhstan’s financial ecosystem. Secondly, MDAI and the Solana Foundation will unfurl a national blockchain education program to deepen the Web3 talent pool.

Lastly, the Solana Economic Zone will seek to attract international Web3 companies via the provision of regulatory support and infrastructure access.

“We are committed to building a resilient and competitive digital environment,” read the MDAI statement. “Project like the Solana Economic Zone allow us to test and implement next-generation solutions – from asset tokenization to cultivating Web3 talent

Solana is now eyeing institutional use cases as memecoin activity dries up, famously losing its dominance to BNB Chain.

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Institutional Utility Spikes For The Network

After years of bearing the tag as a blockchain for only memecoin activity, Solana is racking up real-world utility. A Cantor Fitzgerald report says Solana will outperform Bitcoin and Ethereum as a treasury asset, underscoring the rise of corporates adding the asset to their reserves.

Sol Strategies and MemeStrategy are the latest corporations to add SOL to their corporate treasuries, raising a hundreds of millions to buy the asset. Furthermore, the high odds of a Solana-based ETF approval is signaling a spike in renewed institutional interest for the network contributing to the buzz of a Solana Economic Zone.

In terms of stablecoin, Solana and Aptos are emerging as a preferred blockchain for an incoming Wyoming stablecoin. Outside of stablecoins, PolyMarket, Ondo Finance and BlackRock’s BUIDL have previously provided support for Solana.

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Aliyu Pokima

Aliyu Pokima is a seasoned cryptocurrency and emerging technologies journalist with a knack for covering needle-moving stories in the space. Aliyu delivers breaking news stories, regulatory updates, and insightful analysis with depth and precision. When he's not poring over charts or following leads, Aliyu enjoys playing the bass guitar, lifting weights and running marathons.

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