Weekly Update - Feb 18th, 2026

UAE launch & AE Coin

ANDX is launching into a market that is rapidly turning digital assets into regulated, real-world financial infrastructure. The United Arab Emirates has just provided a strong signal that regulated stablecoins are moving beyond trading and into everyday payment rails: AE Coin has been reported as an approved payment method for certain federal government service fees. That kind of adoption matters because it normalizes stablecoins as “operational money” and accelerates the ecosystem around compliant wallets, merchant acceptance, and settlement partners.

From a market-structure perspective, the Central Bank’s Payment Token Services Regulation is also a clear indication that stablecoin and payment-token activity is being brought under licensing and rule-based supervision, which is exactly the environment institutions and corporates prefer.
For ANDX, the immediate advantage is that a UAE launch is not just about customer acquisition; it is about being present where regulated digital money is becoming part of national payment flows—especially with operational proximity to Abu Dhabi, a core hub for regulated financial services.

Tokenization

Project Manila One is a real estate tokenization initiative tied to a land development opportunity in Metro Manila. It is designed to give investors exposure to an asset class that is normally slow to access and even slower to exit, but in a structure that is easier to distribute and easier to manage digitally. The project materials describe a $100 million raise target and a return profile built around an eight percent preferred return, plus twenty percent participation in the project’s upside. That structure is meant to feel familiar to investors who understand private real estate economics, while still benefiting from the efficiency of digital rails.

What makes Manila One particularly attractive as a tokenization example is that it does not treat liquidity as an afterthought. The project references a liquidity reserve and lays out an expected path to secondary market availability in Q3 2026. In practical terms, that means the investor story is not just “buy and wait,” but “buy with a defined roadmap for future liquidity,” which is often missing in private market exposure. (tokenization.andx.ai)

Manila One is also not intended to be a one-off. The larger ANDX goal is to build a repeatable tokenization pipeline that can bring more real-world assets onto regulated rails. That includes additional RWA projects in the United States, and it also includes longer-term work to tokenize public market instruments such as stocks, with the aim of making ownership more programmable, settlement faster, and access more flexible for global investors. The long-term value proposition is simple: tokenization can modernize how assets are issued, held, and transferred by reducing friction, improving transparency, and expanding distribution in a way that traditional systems struggle to match.