The Blockchain Center Abu Dhabi

The UAE is entering a new phase of blockchain adoption. Our new flagship report with @binance looks at how a layered regulatory framework is enabling institutional-scale blockchain deployment across finance, government, and public services. Commenting on the findings, @dhaheri_12, CEO @adbc_ae, said: “The UAE has created an environment where regulators, financial institutions, and technology providers can work together to deploy blockchain in a controlled and meaningful way. The result is an ecosystem focused on real use cases, regulatory clarity, and long-term financial infrastructure. This report captures that transition from experimentation to supervised deployment, and shows how global platforms such as @binance are increasingly participating within locally regulated market structures rather than operating on the periphery.” Access the full report 👉theblockchaincenter.ae/adbc-binance-r… #AbuDhabiToTheWorld

The lazy take on UAE crypto: rich, shallow, and late. Capital without code, Dubai without depth, following without leading. Three myths — let's break them. Myth 1️⃣ is that 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐥𝐟 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐭. Yet the dirham stablecoin, now moving real value across the country, DDSC, runs on ADI Chain, an institutional Ethereum Layer-2 built by Abu Dhabi's @ADI_Foundation and licensed by the Central Bank. @fuzefinance runs the rails that banks and fintechs plug into. Zand, a homegrown digital bank, issues its own regulated dirham token. Myth 2️⃣ is that 𝐔𝐀𝐄 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐢, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐢 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐀. In reality, five regulators run in parallel: ADGM's FSRA covers Abu Dhabi's free zone, the DFSA covers DIFC, the Central Bank governs stablecoins nationwide. And the federal CMA now extends a virtual-asset perimeter across all seven emirates. This isn't one city with one rulebook. Myth 3️⃣ is that 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐀𝐄 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡-𝐮𝐩, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭. VARA launched in 2022 as the world's first regulator built solely for virtual assets. ADGM followed in 2023 with the world's first legal framework for blockchain foundations and DAOs, and had already become the first jurisdiction in MENA to regulate virtual assets back in 2018. By 2024, the Central Bank's stablecoin rulebook was demanding 100% reserves and next-day redemption. These are frameworks that other jurisdictions are now studying, not copying. Another great example of how the UAE is pioneering digital assets came last week. Wai Lum Kwok, Senior Executive Director of Authorisation at the FSRA at ADGM, told @TheNationalNews that Abu Dhabi's stablecoin regulatory architecture, introduced about two years ago, is close to finished: "we are one of the first movers [globally]", and he believes local rules are robust enough that "our framework is ready to be exported to the US". 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

When the market leader arrives last, it's not news; it's confirmation. @ethereum just named Abu Dhabi. On July 1, @ethereuminsti launched as an independent nonprofit and named Abu Dhabi as one of its expansion hubs. Read the timing carefully: the institutional field in Abu Dhabi was built before this announcement arrived. ▪️@AvalancheFDN — set up a DLT Foundation in ADGM in November 2025 and announced six UAE partnerships at Abu Dhabi Finance Week. ▪️@hashgraphgroup — the Hedera ecosystem's investment firm, took an ADGM license and launched a $100M venture fund from Abu Dhabi in December 2024. ▪️@SolanaFndn — signed an MoU with ADGM in February 2024 and brought Breakpoint, its flagship conference, to Abu Dhabi with 7,000+ attendees. (A shortlist — not the full roster). Still, this is a strong signal for Abu Dhabi and the UAE. More and more institutional-grade digital asset giants keep choosing this market and each arrival makes the next one easier. This is what #UAEForDigitalAssets looks like in practice: the counterparties, the regulator, and the capital, all in one place. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

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Who actually runs crypto in the UAE? Two regulators. 82% of every license. This month, @neoslegal published the UAE VASP License Tracker, the first public database of every active crypto license in the country. We ran the numbers: 101 VASPs, 173 licenses, 5 regulators, as of the June snapshot. The UAE licenses virtual-asset firms across five regulators on two tiers: ▪️VARA — Dubai's dedicated virtual-asset regulator — 75 licenses ▪️FSRA — the financial regulator of ADGM, Abu Dhabi — 67 ▪️DFSA — the financial regulator of DIFC, Dubai — 23 ▪️CBUAE — the federal central bank, for payment tokens — 5 ▪️CMA — the federal securities regulator, formerly the SCA — 3 Behind the names, the register shows the shape of the market: 📊Broker-dealer is the most common license at 65 of 173, against only 4 banks and 9 issuers. 🏛️VARA and ADGM's FSRA together issue 82% of all licenses. 📈30 firms were first licensed in 2025, the register's highest year. The first half of 2026 already added 17. 🆕April and May 2026 alone added Daman, LTP, First Crypto, Amber, Bitexen and CoinCorner, while Crypto.com added a federal license. The federal layer is where we work most closely. The Blockchain Center Abu Dhabi is the regulatory advisor for digital asset innovation to the @uaecma, and works with the Central Bank on stablecoins and cross-border settlement. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

يسر هيئة سوق المال أن تعلن عن إطلاق النطاق الرسمي الجديد للموقع الإلكتروني: uaecma.gov.ae نرجو منكم تحديث بياناتكم وزيارة الموقع للاطلاع على أحدث التشريعات والأخبار.

شارك الرئيس التنفيذي لبنك المارية المحلي، السيد محمد وسيم خياطة، في مؤتمر الهوية والمصادقة ومنع الاحتيال (IAFPC 3.0)، إلى جانب قادة القطاع المصرفي ومبتكري التكنولوجيا والجهات التنظيمية، لمناقشة مستقبل التمويل الرقمي الآمن، مع التركيز على التحقق من الهوية بدون كلمة مرور، ومنع الاحتيال المدعوم بالذكاء الاصطناعي، وتعزيز الثقة ضمن المنظومة المالية في المنطقة. Mbank CEO, Mr. Mohammad Wassim Khayata, participated in IAFPC 3.0, joining banking leaders, technology innovators, and regulators to discuss the future of secure digital finance, with a focus on passwordless authentication, AI-driven fraud prevention, and strengthening trust across the region’s financial ecosystem. #MbankUAE #BankOnUs #DigitalBank

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The @FIFAWorldCup official sponsors now reach into stablecoins, crypto exchanges, and on-chain markets. The 2026 tournament put digital assets on football's biggest stage: 🔹@Visa, @FIFAcom's Official Payment Technology Partner, is running USDC stablecoin settlement across the region and bringing stablecoin-linked cards to the Middle East. 🔹@krakenfx, Official Crypto Exchange Supporter, the first global exchange to win a full @ADGlobalMarket license in 2022, now re-entering via @varadubai. 🔹ADI @Predictstreet, @FIFAcom's first Official Prediction Market Partner, built on @ADIChain_, Abu Dhabi's institutional Layer 2. Look past the logos, and one thread runs through all three: the UAE. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

سعادة وليد سعيد العوضي، الرئيس التنفيذي لهيئة سوق المال، يعبّر عن فخره بترشح موظفي الهيئة ضمن جائزة محمد بن راشد للأداء الحكومي المتميز. إن هذه الترشيحات تعكس ما بذله الموظفون من جهود مخلصة، وروح مهنية عالية، والتزام راسخ بقيم الريادة والابتكار في العمل الحكومي.

This month, @Bybit_Official put a @SpaceX IPO on-chain — days after @binance wired AED into a UAE bank, and weeks after @cryptocom cleared crypto to pay Dubai government fees. @Bybit_Official's IPO Express opens tokenized subscriptions at the offering price, starting with @SpaceX before public trading begins. @binance's ramp runs directly through @OfficialADCB: zero deposit fees, same-day settlement, no third-party processor. @cryptocom is the first VASP licensed by the @centralbankuae under a Stored Value Facility, funding payments in crypto and settling in dirhams. None of this would have been possible without the regulatory groundwork the UAE has spent years putting in place. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

The United Nations Development Programme (@UNDP) has launched its Blockchain Advisory Group, and @adbc_ae is part of it! "Being part of @UNDP's Blockchain Advisory Group reflects Abu Dhabi's commitment to advancing blockchain in service of the public good. We look forward to contributing our regulatory and institutional expertise to a global agenda focused on real development outcomes," said @dhaheri_12, CEO @adbc_ae. The Blockchain Advisory Group currently includes 26 member organizations representing a broad cross-section of the blockchain ecosystem. Across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia, and Asia-Pacific, UNDP is working with governments and ecosystem partners to explore applications ranging from digital payments and financial inclusion to climate finance, digital identity, traceability, public procurement, and public service delivery. The Blockchain Advisory Group convenes twice annually to explore how blockchain technologies can address key development priorities: public trust and digital governance; inclusive society and legal identity; financial inclusion and digital financial services; sustainability, climate and trackable responsibility; and digital labour and the future of work. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

Around $90 billion is parked with one crypto custodian. That's almost triple every tokenized real-world asset out there, put together. Custody is the least visible part of crypto and the most heavily licensed. That makes it a cleaner signal than any token: the biggest names in it have been setting up in the UAE. In May, the biggest one of all walked in. @BNYglobal safekeeps $59.4 trillion in assets, and it's now bringing institutional crypto custody to Abu Dhabi with Finstreet and @ADI_Foundation , both part of IHC, through @ADGlobalMarket. The deal still needs final agreements and regulatory sign-off. If you are weighing where to custody digital assets in the region, match your activity to the regulator: @varadubai in Dubai, @ADGlobalMarket or @DIFC in the financial free zones, @uaecma at the federal level, @centralbankuae for payment tokens. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

Sovereign nations are accelerating their deployment of central bank digital currencies. As @realyanxin mentioned in the @Reuters piece, the era of programmable national infrastructure is here. We provide the verifiable rails required to secure these large-scale government rollouts. reuters.com/business/finan…

Payment rails were Bitcoin's first chapter. Programmable value is the next. Our co-founder @chadmasterxbt is on the @proofoftalk panel tomorrow talking about what it takes to rebuild Bitcoin's financial stack. June 2, 11:35 CET. Louvre Palace.

𝟑 directly licensed VASPs. 𝟑𝟗 registered. 𝟏𝟔 in pipeline. UAE's federal VA regulation went institutional in 2025 — and the @uaecma Annual Report has the details. @uaecma released the report earlier this month. Chapter 7 of the report focuses entirely on virtual assets, one of the most substantive treatments of the sector by a UAE federal regulator. The numbers tell a clear story. 𝟑𝟗 companies are now registered with CMA via the joint @uaecma-@varadubai cooperation framework, up 𝟖𝟔% year-on-year (𝟏𝟖 added in 2025). 𝟏𝟔 in the licensing pipeline, up 𝟑𝟗%. 𝟑 entities now hold direct CMA licenses (𝟐 newly issued in 2025), up 𝟐𝟎𝟎% year-on-year. Each figure marks a different stage of the UAE's federal VA pipeline, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐀-𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐌𝐀-𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬. Here is what CMA built in 2025: 🔗𝐂𝐌𝐀 × 𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 — fully operational. Four pillars: regulatory alignment, information exchange, supervisory coordination, and clear delineation of roles. A fast-track mutual recognition mechanism launches in Q1 2026. Entities licensed by one regulator get an accelerated path with the other. 📋𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟖𝟑 — Cabinet-approved fee structure for VASPs. Transparent entry conditions for the UAE mainland market. 📑𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟓/𝐑𝐌 — tokenized securities and commodity contracts now sit inside a federal framework. A direct path for mainland issuers that previously had no federal route. 📘𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐏 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 — updated. New modules aligned with current digital asset business models. 🤝𝐌𝐨𝐔 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 @adbc_ae — on June 10, 2025, CMA signed a memorandum of understanding with us, focused on blockchain technologies and Web3 within capital markets. One of 𝟕 new MoUs signed by CMA in 2025, bringing the cumulative total to 𝟏𝟔𝟔 partnerships. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

Eid Al Adha Mubarak from @adbc_ae! As communities across the UAE and around the world mark Eid Al Adha, we extend our warmest wishes to our partners, founders, and friends. 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗺, 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱. #UAEForDigitalAssets

On May 7, the UAE's two regulated stablecoins, @AECoin_UAE (AED) and @Universal_USDU (USD), announced they are building an automated conversion framework between them. The first regulated AED–USD on-chain bridge, powered by @almaryahbank (Mbank). Today the UAE has five @centralbankuae-approved payment tokens: @AECoin_UAE, Zand AED, DDSC, @Universal_USDU, and RAKBANK AED (in-principle). All authorized under the Payment Token Services Regulation (PTSR). This matters because the UAE's stablecoin market is not small. The country processed $𝟓𝟔𝐁 in crypto volume between July 2024 and June 2025 — 𝟓𝟏% of it in stablecoins, one of the highest concentrations in MENA. Merchant crypto payments grew +𝟖𝟖.𝟏% YoY. Institutional transactions above $𝟏𝟎𝐌 grew +𝟓𝟒.𝟕%. The infrastructure is catching up to the demand. 👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

Missed Xin’s recent interview on Al Qahera News القاهرة الإخبارية)? Here are some key moments: - US-China Summit & Supply Chains: youtu.be/UUsPDeohiEE?t=… - AI, Data Centers & Energy Tech: youtu.be/UUsPDeohiEE?t=… -Geopolitical Analysis: Middle East: youtu.be/UUsPDeohiEE?t=… Tip: Enable Settings -> Subtitles -> Auto-translate -> English

Welcoming Republic Technologies to the Sign ecosystem. investing.com/news/stock-mar… Republic Technologies (CSE: DOCT | FSE: 7FM0 | OTCQB: DOCKF) is a Canadian public-market vehicle giving listed-equity shareholders disclosure-driven exposure to the foundational infrastructure layers of the next-generation internet: verification, identity, programmable capital, settlement. Under this agreement, Republic will be deploying the S.I.G.N. stack across capital-markets and public-company workflows. The first publicly listed deployment of this stack. A meaningful step toward S.I.G.N. stack entering the listed-company toolkit, alongside conventional audit, compliance, and continuous-disclosure processes. Onward.