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Maybe THE AMA not to miss is here 👀 #AMA #KULA #RWA #Blockchain

At KULA, one of our core values is: We Learn. So we want to hear from you 👇 What would you like to learn more about? 💡 Impact investing 💡 Tokenisation 💡 RWAs 💡 DAO governance 💡 Our projects 💡 How KULA works behind the scenes 💡 The future of crypto for impact Drop your questions, topics, or ideas below and we’ll start answering them across our content, videos, AMAs, and community channels.

What happens when billions intended for communities never reach the people they were meant to help? In the latest episode of Crypto Cast, hosted by James Burnie FRSA, KULA co-founder Chris Turner discusses impact investing, DAO governance, tokenisation, and how blockchain can help ensure capital reaches communities on the ground. The conversation explores the failures of traditional systems, the risks in RWAs, and how KULA is building a governance-first model for real-world impact. Watch the full conversation below 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=k2SNbC…

Every investment opportunity Kula considers starts with three foundational requirements: meaningful impact, community integration and economic return. That means looking beyond capital deployment alone, and assessing whether a business can create demonstrable change, give the relevant community ownership and a voice in decision-making, and meet the return thresholds needed to remain attractive for Kula token holders. Hear from Edward Allely, our Head of Investments, on how we evaluate opportunities before moving forward 👇

The impact investing market reached $1.57 trillion in 2024, but trust, data and transparency remain critical barriers to scale. In Issue 1 of Kula Konnect, we explore how blockchain can help make impact investing more verifiable. Read the full newsletter: #newsletter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kula.com/newsroom#newsl…

Our team was delighted to attend the Kenya Blockchain & Crypto Conference 2026 over the past few days. 🇰🇪 One thing was very clear: the conversation across much of Africa’s crypto ecosystem is heavily focused on stablecoins, payments, remittances, and improving fiat on/off ramps. There’s huge energy and potential building, particularly around digital finance infrastructure and regulation, with the atmosphere reminding many attendees of early crypto conferences from the mid-2010s: full of ambition and opportunity. Our team also found it interesting to see discussions around how African cities and economies can position themselves at the centre of the next phase of digital innovation. Stay tuned for our full recap.

Our team is on the ground at the Kenya Blockchain & Crypto Conference 2026 in Nairobi this week 🇰🇪 From stablecoins and payments to the future of Africa’s digital economy, there are some incredibly important conversations happening here. If you’re attending KBCC, come and say hi.

Welcome aboard Raj, such an inspiring man!

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Raj Kapoor as Strategic Advisor to Kula Raj brings extensive global experience across technology, strategic partnerships, innovation ecosystems, and cross-border market development, supporting Kula as we continue scaling our international impact investment pipeline and global partnerships. Read more about the appointment here: #announcements" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kula.com/newsroom#annou…

Tokenisation does not eliminate intermediaries. In many cases, it simply relocates where authority sits. In Chris Turner’s paper, “Where Authority Resides: A Completion-Based Taxonomy of Tokenisation”, he explores how many tokenised systems still rely on external institutions for redemption, enforcement, recognition, or settlement, even when transfers appear seamless on-chain. The paper argues that the key question is not whether an asset has been tokenised, but whether the transfer itself completes the underlying entitlement or whether completion still depends on an external authority. This distinction matters because markets often price tokenised assets as though ownership and settlement are fully native to the system, when in reality operational control may still sit elsewhere. As tokenisation evolves, understanding where authority actually resides becomes increasingly important for assessing governance, settlement risk, and institutional reliability. Read the full paper below 👇

@LorenzoARK @consensus2026 @Uniswap A very precise take imo, I also have the same vibes. It was assuring to see institutions coming in it becomes more clear for everyone. This fits exactly within what @kula_dao is building. Exciting times ahead.

Just got back from @consensus2026 Miami. Some unfiltered thoughts on the vibes: The industry has clearly grown up. The degens are gone, the allocators are wearing suits, and your @Uniswap booth has been replaced by a JP Morgan activation with 50 year old boomers. Cautiously optimistic with a distinctly institutional aftertaste. This was not a bull market conference. Key takeaways: 1) CLARITY Act has serious momentum. Everyone at the conference basically agrees it's getting done before summer. The urgency is real, people are done waiting. And the regulatory window feels genuinely unprecedented: CLARITY Act, GENIUS Act, a CFTC chair actively engaging with the industry, this combination has never existed simultaneously before. The institutional urgency you're seeing everywhere is directly correlated to this window feeling time-limited. Miss it and you're explaining to your board why you sat on your hands during the most favorable crypto regulatory environment in history. 2) Institutions are not dabbling anymore. They are ALL IN on tokenization and terrified of missing it. No one is debating whether blockchain rails are useful. The debate is now who gets the mandate. And quietly @coinbase , @krakenfx , @RobinhoodApp and @Bullish and others are being seen more as competitors than potential partners by a lot of these TradFi players. 3) TradFi M&A is going to keep ripping. @krakenfx just grabbed Reap for $600M. Visa, Mastercard, Swift etc they can't miss the train and they're willing to overpay for the ticket. 4) Crypto VC is consolidating fast. @a16z and @katie_haun just announced $2.2B and $1B funds respectively. Meanwhile the boutique VCs are either pivoting to AI or quietly closing shop. Same playbook is happenign as traditional VC, the big platforms eat everything and the small guys scramble. Seed and pre-seed is basically a ghost town right now. Late stage and pre-IPO is where the action is. 5) Investment themes were aggressively consensus (no pun intended): Stablecoins, tokenization, vertically integrated neo-banks, regulated or permissioned DeFi. Literally everyone is trying to be a tokenization platform. Issuance, management, settlement, curation, pick your lane, slap tokenization on it, try to raise money. 6) Building in crypto is genuinely hard now. Your competition isn't some scrappy new L1 or GMX, it's @tether , @Anchorage , and @Securitize. there are now many crypto businesses running 200M+ annual Rev with serious management teams and deep pockets. The barbarians are now the establishment. New entrants are going to have a very bad time. 7) Pure token-only plays have become extremely contrarian. Controversial take but I think the biggest returns will come from a handful of tokens that can credibly signal in a compliant way that the token remains the only value accruing asset going forward. 8) A lot of teams are in a genuinely weird spot on the token/equity dynamics. Decent products, decent teams, but a complete stakeholder clusterf*** that nobody can untangle. Many of these will simply not survive. 9) The agentic finance and agentic commerce crowd was loud. The actual substance was not. A lot of big claims, very little to show for it. Feels very early and mostly vibes. Color me skeptical for now. 10) @Bullish acquiring Equinity for $4.2B was the boldest move of the conference. @ThomasFarley and @BonannoDavid now have a full-stack RWA proposition: issuance, transfer agency, tokenization, exchange and settlement under one roof. Massive move. Very positive for the industry regardless of whether you think the price or the move were right. 11) @BitMNR and @fundstrat are apparently tired of winning and has decided to let your grandma keep her ETH... for now. The pace of accumulation is slowing. Tom, we await your next allocation with bated breath. 12) DeFi apps are moving up the stack and getting smarter about it. They don't want to be the commodity infrastructure layer getting squeezed by exchanges that own distribution. Some genuinely interesting announcements, @buffalu__ at @jito_sol launching JTX being the highlight. 13) Nobody at the conference was talking about retail coming back. The entire conversation was institutional. That's either a sign of maturity or a sign that the industry has quietly given up on mainstream consumer adoption for now and is betting the next cycle gets pulled by institutional flows rather than retail FOMO. Probably both. 14) The L1 debate is officially dead. Nobody and I mean nobody was arguing SOL vs ETH or pitching their shiny new L1. The crowd that used to religiously defend their chain of choice has either grown up, cashed out, or both. Institutions don't care about your consensus mechanism. They care about settlement finality, compliance rails and liquidity. The L1 wars were fun while they lasted. RIP. 15) DATs are a mess. Had some genuinely productive conversations with a few of them but let's be honest most are an absolute clusterf*** operationally and very few are running anything resembling a legitimate business. The structure is a disaster at the stakeholder level and the governance makes your average startup cap table look clean. That said, the permanent capital vehicle concept is still genuinely compelling and I think a handful of these will turn out to be absolute home runs. The model isn't broken, most of the teams just are. Bottom line: Consensus 2026 felt like the moment crypto stopped being a movement and started being an industry. Whether that's exciting or depressing probably depends on when you got in.

Saturday Recap 🔄: Blockchain's place in global finance written by our Senior Finance Advisor, Philippe Jouard

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Need something to read this weekend? The paperback version of the Kula Konnect Issue 1, our quarterly newsletter, has appeared in the wild! Give it a read this weekend below 👇 #newsletter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kula.com/newsroom#newsl…

Final Day at @consensus2026 Miami 🗓️ And we ended it on a high! Taran Dhillon, our Head of Digital Assets, joining the Convergence Stage panel: “The Next Commodity Revolution: RWA Meets Instant Liquidity.” The discussion explored the future of tokenisation and liquidity, with Taran sharing what KULA has already built in the space, from tokenised limestone mines to empowering boda boda riders through real-world asset infrastructure. Stay tuned for the full recap of our time in Miami.

We’re proud to share that Kula has been shortlisted for three awards at the @FinancialProm Awards USA 2026 in New York: 🏆 Crypto Marketer of the Year: Rachael Powlesland (Global Head of Communications) 🏆 Investment Marketing Team of the Year 🏆 Crypto Marketing Team of the Year It’s encouraging to see our work recognised across both investment and crypto marketing. At Kula, we are not only helping educate the market on impact investing, but also on how crypto and blockchain can be used to deliver it in a transparent, participatory, and scalable way. Thank you to everyone contributing to this journey, from our team to our community.

Day 2 at @consensus2026 Miami📅: UPDATE Our team on the ground had a number of successful meetings with the @CoinDesk and the Consensus team, discussing everything from RWAs, tokenisation and how we can work together to refocus the blockchain industry on impact. Are you at Consensus? See the replies for what else we’re up to today and come and say hi!👇

I agree, tokenization isn't one thing. Most people just don't know that yet. GM Kuladians 🌅 Just as yesterday, @kula_dao dropped something worth your attention but I know many of you saw that post and kept scrolling. Maybe the paper link scared you off too. Zero worries. I read it page to page so you don't have to. But before I break it down ask yourself: when you buy a "tokenized" asset, do you actually own it? Because the honest answer might surprise you. Here's the thing🔻 not all tokenization is the same. Chris Turner's (Kula's Co-founder ) paper breaks it into four levels and the gap between them is exactly where people lose money without knowing why. 🔻Referential ➫ Your token is just a receipt. Like collecting a ticket for your car at a valet. The ticket moved, the car didn't. Someone else still controls what's yours. 🔻Contractual ➫ You have a real right now. Like a signed agreement. But if anything goes wrong, you're still heading to court. Someone outside the chain makes the final call. 🔻Title ➫ Now the transfer itself means ownership. Like updating a property deed, once it's done, it's yours. Authority lives inside the system. 🔻Atomic ➫ Full ownership the moment transfer happens. Like handing someone cash directly. No middleman. No waiting. Done. 🔹To make it more clearer think of it like this: Think of it like buying land Someone hands you a receipt and says "this land is yours." But the government's record still shows another person's name. On paper the deal happened. In reality you own nothing until that record changes. That's exactly what happens with most tokenized assets today. The ledger says you own it. The real world hasn't caught up yet. Most RWAs sit at that receipt level but get priced like the deed already changed. That's the trap nobody talks about. @kula_dao is building toward the top real ownership, real authority, real impact. Trust me, this paper is worth your time 👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Are DAOs Dead? Kula's Head of Digital Asset Explains #CHAINREACTION x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Miami @consensus2026 just getting started 🌴 Our opening VIP dinner really set the tone Thank you to @wallstreetbets x @orangie x @PotionAlpha x @pudgypenguins @creatorfun x @scale x @DeLoreanlabs Definitely the most curated room in Miami A pleasure connecting with the legends: - @iandebode - President, Ondo Finance - @JustinBarlow - Executive Director, Sei Foundation - Charles Liu - Strategy & Operations, @Revolut - @LucaNetz - CEO, @pudgypenguins - @0xLoMel - President, @IglooInc - @jonathankingvc - Senior Manager, Investments, @cbventures - @Pedromiranda - Head of Consumer, Solana Foundation - @ChrisBarrett - Senior Director of Communications, @chainlink - Victoria Anderson - Head Of Growth, @Bitwise - @beatricecollet - COO, Chiliz - Eleonora Kolesnikova - @Trezor - Greg Meehan - @coingecko - @vesper792 - Ecosystem Lead, Meteora - @henrymcphie_ - CEO, Streamex - @ROCKST4R - Head of Marketing, Cysic - @FlowTraderTM - Head of BD, Ostium Labs - @catdaly - CMO, Space and Time - @imprfekt - CEO, Streamflow - Taran Dhillon - Head of Digital Assets, @kula_dao - @farokh - President, Myriad Markets - @jonah_b - Blockchain Capital - @lannaroche - Antler - Ben Rubin - Head of BD, @BloFin_Official - @ch_egan - Head of Influencer Partnerships, @bitget and more More dinners + office visits all week DM if you want to join 👀

If this is not bullies enough, I don’t know what is. Impact investing is coming soon to a farm/mine near you.