Ammar Manla Hasan

Taxir is a research, communication and education initiative, geared towards facilitating blockchain adoption in MENA (Middle East and North Africa), a region that homes +570M residents. We recognize a High Potential / Low Adoption paradox when it comes to blockchain in MENA. On the one hand, MENA seems to be the kind of region that blockchain has developed to serve. The region suffers from varying financial and economic difficulties, including untrustworthy banking sectors, depreciating national currencies, and the many pitfalls of unchecked centralization. On the other hand, blockchain adoption and use cases have been stagnant, both quantitatively and qualitatively. MENA has exhibited what might be the globe’s slowest adoption rate in terms of size of use, and this poor adoption has been largely focused around CEXs and NFT flipping, stigmatizing blockchain technology across the region as a get-rich-quick scheme. We want to: 1) Target this paradox with formal and informal research, to understand what cultural barriers are standing in the way of proper blockchain adoption in MENA,2) Develop research-backed communication and education public-good projects and resources that can mitigate those barriers. We are currently working on AbjaDAO, an alliance of four blockchain-focused initiatives coming together to develop a unified and decentralized Arabic glossary for blockchain terminology. Website: <a href="https://taxir.xyz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="ql-size-large">https://taxir.xyz/</a>Whitepaper: <a href="https://taxir-1.gitbook.io/taxir" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="ql-size-large">https://taxir-1.gitbook.io/taxir/</a>Main social media account (Instagram): <a href="https://www.instagram.com/were.taxir" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="ql-size-large">https://www.instagram.com/were.taxir/</a>

Taxir is a research, communication and education initiative, geared towards
facilitating blockchain adoption in MENA (Middle East and North Africa), a
region that homes +570M residents.
We recognize a High Potential / Low Adoption paradox when it comes to blockchain
in MENA.
On the one hand, MENA...

Facilitating Blockchain Adoption for MENA Residents