Zignaly co-founder says platform volume has topped $10 billion, argues RWA tokenization is about structure not minting

Abdul Rafay Gadit, co-founder of Zignaly and the Layer 1 network Zigchain, said the bottleneck in traditional wealth management lies in slow, expensive and fragmented settlement rails rather than token issuance itself. He said asset liquidation and investor verification can take days under the current model, with firms often repeating manual compliance checks across separate systems. Gadit said a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain can encode eligibility requirements, geographic restrictions and transfer rules directly into the asset, allowing execution, ownership, settlement and reconciliation to exist in a single verifiable state. He also shared operating figures for Zignaly, saying the platform has grown to more than 500,000 users and has processed over $10 billion in trading volume. On real-world asset tokenization, Gadit said the hard part is not minting a token. He pointed instead to the underlying legal and operational framework, including legal ownership, custody, valuation, redemption and the definition of qualified holders. His remarks frame RWA tokenization as an infrastructure and compliance problem, not just a technical issuance process.