crypto in uae

Ant International, the company behind Alipay+, has completed pilot transfers on HSBC’s Tokenised Deposit Service (TDS) in the UAE. The tests covered two corridors: real-time dirham-denominated transfers within the UAE, …

Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) made two moves on crypto oversight in two days. On 5 October it signed a memorandum of understanding with the UAE Financial Intelligence Unit …

David Ogg co-founded HotspotFX in 1999. It went live in 2000 as the first institutional ECN in the FX market, and it is now part of Cboe FX after Knight Capital bought …

Zand, the Abu Dhabi-backed UAE digital bank, is adding support for USDC, Circle’s US dollar stablecoin, alongside its own regulated Zand Dirham, the bank announced August 25, 2026. The move …

Capital Vault, a regulated affiliate of trading platform Capital.com, has secured a full virtual-asset licence from the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority, now operating as the UAE CMA, clearing the …

Arbeat Group FZE has received a full Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), covering both exchange and broker-dealer services. The licence, issued 23 June …

KAIO and Mubadala Capital have launched tokenised access to one of Mubadala Capital’s evergreen private markets strategies, live on three blockchains at once: Base, Solana and Sui. Coinbase is both …

DDSC, the UAE dirham stablecoin developed by IHC, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) and Sirius International Holding, has received a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Central Bank of the …

A merchant in Dubai has been accepting USDT as payment for two years. It worked fine, customers preferred it, and nobody told them it was a problem. After July 2025, …

In January 2026, a crypto founder walked into the DIFC with a stablecoin product she had spent eighteen months building. Fully backed, audited reserves, institutional-grade governance. She had done everything …