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.”

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Proud to join @Shyft_Finance's Strategic Global Council. We look forward to supporting the growth of institutional onchain wealth and bridging innovation with regulators and capital!

Summer is the dead season in the Gulf. Everyone knows that.

Except the licensing desks did not get the memo. A week of summer left, and here in the UAE we are already deep in planning for the autumn and a hot winter. And while some may have assumed summer is the dead season here, licensing of new companies picked up speed instead.

If you want to track how this market develops, watch the number of new licenses and the number of companies entering it.

We have put together a list of new virtual asset-related companies licensed in the UAE since the start of summer:
▪️@Revolut, in-principle from VARA on June 5
▪️@arbeat_io, full VARA license on June 23
▪️@TripleAHQ, in-principle from VARA on June 30
▪️@BitcoinSuisse_, full ADGM permission on July 7
▪️@flipster_io, full VARA exchange license on July 14
▪️@ARPdigital_io, full VARA broker-dealer license on August 7
▪️@flowdesk_co, full VARA broker-dealer license on August 7
▪️@0xCregis, in-principle from VARA on August 7
▪️@coinbase, full ADGM permission for its tokenization hub on August 11
▪️@capitalcom, full CMA license on August 20

Save this list not just to understand where the UAE market is heading, but to know whom to meet when the business season starts.

👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets

Here is where your crypto actually works in the UAE: a flight, a taxi, a court fee, and as of August 5, the duty free counter at DXB.

— @airarabiagroup has taken @AECoin_UAE for tickets since May 2025. @emirates added @cryptocom Pay in July.

— Tawasul has run AE Coin across the Abu Dhabi taxi fleet since June 2025.

— Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has accepted AE Coin for court fees since July 2025.

— @DubaiDutyFree went live on August 5 at DXB, Al Maktoum International and its online store.

— @ADNOCdist signed in December to bring AE Coin to its UAE stations. Dubai Finance signed with Crypto.com for government fees. @eAndUAE is testing it across consumer payment points.

All of this shows how crypto is developing in the UAE. Through our weekly content series, we keep showing how attractive it is to do business in a country where advanced technology is being adopted at this pace.

Follow @adbc_ae for the next one. There is always a next one. #UAEForDigitalAssets

One article counted a country. The other counted one square kilometer of it. Both landed last week, and the numbers rhyme.

On 28 July, @TheNationalNews reported that @DIFC crossed 10,000 companies for the first time, adding 2,318 over the twelve months to the end of June. On 31 July, @khaleejtimes published a survey of where senior figures in the industry expect UAE fintech to go next.

▪️1,670+ AI, FinTech and innovation firms now sit in the DIFC ecosystem, and they have raised more than $4.2 billion between them.
▪️12.5 million users are on Aani, the national instant payments platform, with transfers settling in about three seconds.
▪️224 investors took part in the Dubai Land Department tokenized title pilot, coming from more than 40 countries, and the offering sold out in under two minutes.
▪️2,318 companies joined DIFC over twelve months, a 30% increase that pushed the center past 10,000 for the first time.
▪️Every segment grew at once: family offices up 36%, wealth and asset management up 35%, insurance and reinsurance up 22%, regulated firms up 16%, banking and capital markets up 13%.

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