While Silicon Valley made noise, Faisal Al-Monai built silence into power. For over two decades, this Saudi technologist has operated behind the curtain, designing digital infrastructure not for likes or funding rounds, but to rewire the Kingdom’s most vital systems. His tools? Patience. Precision. And an uncanny ability to see decades ahead of the curve. Today, as the world chases hype around AI and Web3, Faisal’s work is already live, trusted by sovereigns, adopted by Fortune 500 companies and quietly becoming a blueprint for global transformation. He calls it “the system that the next generation will take for granted.” His clients call it droppGroup. The $100-Billion-Dollar Beginning Long before blockchain entered public discourse, Faisal was already building the rails for Saudi Arabia’s digital economy. As the founder and CEO of SSS IT, he created a middleware system that connected SADAD, the national bill settlement platform, to every operating bank and government agency. That system now processes over $100 billion+ USD annually. He didn’t stop there. His team engineered a correspondence management platform that over 50 Saudi government agencies still rely on today, custom-built for the nuanced operational needs of the Kingdom. And when Microsoft, Oracle and HP needed leadership in the public sector, Faisal stepped in, managing their critical portfolios, even managing three meetings with Bill Gates, including one between Gates and King Abdullah himself. The thread through it all? Build quietly. Scale intentionally. Leave permanence. Web3’s Best-Kept Secret In 2017, Faisal co-founded droppGroup, an enterprise Web3 and AI infrastructure company based in Miami, but deeply embedded in the Middle East’s digital transformation. Over the past seven years, it’s become what insiders call “the invisible engine behind a new internet.” droppGroup’s flagship product, droppOne, is no ordinary technological system. It’s an AI-native, quantum-resilient infrastructure platform designed for governments and enterprises to operate in a world where AI agents transact, identities are decentralized and economies no longer need intermediaries. With deployments spanning the governments of Saudi Arabia andQatar, Saudi Aramco, Cisco and Oracle, droppOne isn’t theory - it’s innovation in practice. Think sovereign digital ID, AI agents negotiating real-time contracts, real world assets like energy being tokenized and national data rails stitched into smart city backbones. “droppOne was never about riding a wave,” Faisal notes. “It was about building something carefully that would outlive the next century’s computational arms race.” Your Future, Tokenized At its core, droppOne enables a new kind of economy - where digital agents can trade, collaborate, and enforce trust without permission. It’s a world where citizens own their data, machines act on behalf of humans and blockchain becomes a practical tool for trust and transparency. The architecture supports >500,000 TPS, seamlessly bridges on-premise enterprise environments with public blockchains. Every AI agent has a wallet. Every transaction is programmable. Every interaction - sovereign. This is not speculative infrastructure. It’s post-hype technology with pre-hype execution. The Saudi Blueprint for the World What Faisal and droppGroup have accomplished in Saudi is more than national innovation - it’s a template for how nations can leap into the future. As Vision 2030 accelerates, droppGroup is proving what’s possible when technology is purpose-built, not retrofitted. And while others are pitching tokenization, Faisal and dropp are already tokenizing commodities, cities and citizenship itself. From Riyadh to San Francisco, governments and Fortune 500 companies are now looking to the Kingdom - not just as an oil powerhouse - but as the testbed for programmable economies and AI-driven governance. The Last Quiet Era Is Ending Faisal Al-Monai is not interested in the press. He’s interested in permanence. But permanence has a habit of attracting attention. As AI and Web3 converge, droppGroup’s technology, designed in silence, is becoming essential infrastructure. For identity. For trust. For value. So if you’re wondering where the future is being built, don’t look to the loudest founders. Look to the ones who don’t need to speak to be heard. droppGroup has already built what others are still trying to define. And Faisal Al-Monai has already helped a nation leap into the future - now he’s bringing the rest of the world with him. While Silicon Valley made noise, Faisal Al-Monai built silence into power. Faisal Al-Monai For over two decades, this Saudi technologist has operated behind the curtain, designing digital infrastructure not for likes or funding rounds, but to rewire the Kingdom’s most vital systems. His tools? Patience. Precision. And an uncanny ability to see decades ahead of the curve. Today, as the world chases hype around AI and Web3, Faisal’s work is already live, trusted by sovereigns, adopted by Fortune 500 companies and quietly becoming a blueprint for global transformation. He calls it “the system that the next generation will take for granted.” His clients call it droppGroup. “the system that the next generation will take for granted.” The $100-Billion-Dollar Beginning The $100-Billion-Dollar Beginning Long before blockchain entered public discourse, Faisal was already building the rails for Saudi Arabia’s digital economy. As the founder and CEO of SSS IT, he created a middleware system that connected SADAD, the national bill settlement platform, to every operating bank and government agency. That system now processes over $100 billion+ USD annually. He didn’t stop there. His team engineered a correspondence management platform that over 50 Saudi government agencies still rely on today, custom-built for the nuanced operational needs of the Kingdom. And when Microsoft, Oracle and HP needed leadership in the public sector, Faisal stepped in, managing their critical portfolios, even managing three meetings with Bill Gates, including one between Gates and King Abdullah himself. The thread through it all? Build quietly. Scale intentionally. Leave permanence. Build quietly. Scale intentionally. Leave permanence. Web3’s Best-Kept Secret Web3’s Best-Kept Secret In 2017, Faisal co-founded droppGroup , an enterprise Web3 and AI infrastructure company based in Miami, but deeply embedded in the Middle East’s digital transformation. Over the past seven years, it’s become what insiders call “the invisible engine behind a new internet.” droppGroup droppGroup’s flagship product, droppOne, is no ordinary technological system. It’s an AI-native, quantum-resilient infrastructure platform designed for governments and enterprises to operate in a world where AI agents transact, identities are decentralized and economies no longer need intermediaries. With deployments spanning the governments of Saudi Arabia andQatar, Saudi Aramco, Cisco and Oracle, droppOne isn’t theory - it’s innovation in practice. Think sovereign digital ID, AI agents negotiating real-time contracts, real world assets like energy being tokenized and national data rails stitched into smart city backbones. “droppOne was never about riding a wave,” Faisal notes. “It was about building something carefully that would outlive the next century’s computational arms race.” “droppOne was never about riding a wave,” “It was about building something carefully that would outlive the next century’s computational arms race.” Your Future, Tokenized Your Future, Tokenized At its core, droppOne enables a new kind of economy - where digital agents can trade, collaborate, and enforce trust without permission. It’s a world where citizens own their data, machines act on behalf of humans and blockchain becomes a practical tool for trust and transparency. The architecture supports >500,000 TPS, seamlessly bridges on-premise enterprise environments with public blockchains. Every AI agent has a wallet. Every transaction is programmable. Every interaction - sovereign. This is not speculative infrastructure. It’s post-hype technology with pre-hype execution. The Saudi Blueprint for the World The Saudi Blueprint for the World What Faisal and droppGroup have accomplished in Saudi is more than national innovation - it’s a template for how nations can leap into the future. As Vision 2030 accelerates, droppGroup is proving what’s possible when technology is purpose-built, not retrofitted. And while others are pitching tokenization, Faisal and dropp are already tokenizing commodities, cities and citizenship itself. From Riyadh to San Francisco, governments and Fortune 500 companies are now looking to the Kingdom - not just as an oil powerhouse - but as the testbed for programmable economies and AI-driven governance. The Last Quiet Era Is Ending The Last Quiet Era Is Ending Faisal Al-Monai is not interested in the press. He’s interested in permanence. But permanence has a habit of attracting attention. As AI and Web3 converge, droppGroup’s technology, designed in silence, is becoming essential infrastructure. For identity. For trust. For value. So if you’re wondering where the future is being built, don’t look to the loudest founders. Look to the ones who don’t need to speak to be heard. droppGroup has already built what others are still trying to define. And Faisal Al-Monai has already helped a nation leap into the future - now he’s bringing the rest of the world with him. droppGroup Faisal Al-Monai now he’s bringing the rest of the world with him.

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