Dubai, UAE – 16 February 2026 – botim money, the financial services arm of botim, announced today the launch of digital silver investing within its ‘Invest’ feature, enabling eligible users to buy, sell, and manage fractional silver holdings from AED 10. The launch follows the in-app gold investing capability introduced in partnership with O Gold, expanding botim’s precious metals suite across the UAE.
The new capability is designed to lower traditional entry barriers tied to bulk purchases and offline handling, giving users a simpler way to access silver through a regulated, in-app experience. It forms part of botim’s broader build-out of practical financial tools across the platform, alongside existing payments and remittance use cases.
Since its launch in August 2025, botim money’s gold investment feature recorded 128,000 in-app gold trades with a total amount exceeding AED 100 million. This rapid adoption signals strong and sustained user demand to expand botim money’s ‘Invest’ offerings beyond gold into silver within the same suite.
Sacha Haider, Chief Operating Officer of Astra Tech | botim, said: “We were the first fintech platform to announce plans for a digital gold investment portfolio within botim’s fintech ecosystem in 2023, in partnership with O Gold. Since launch, fractional investing has removed traditional minimum investment thresholds that historically limited participation and driven notable growth in usage. Extended to silver and combined with botim’s ease of use and scale, this creates a seamless and inclusive pathway for users to begin investing with confidence.”
The launch comes as silver draws renewed attention globally both as a store-of-value asset and as an industrial metal with structural demand drivers. With the global silver market expected to record a sixth consecutive annual deficit in 2026, and a projected shortfall of around 67 million ounces, while retail investment demand is forecast to rise despite softer demand in some industrial and consumer categories.
By extending botim’s investment offering beyond gold into silver, botim is broadening access to asset diversification for everyday users while continuing to build towards the UAE’s ambition of a mature, digital-first financial ecosystem.
The digital silver feature is now available to eligible users through the botim app.
