UAE

The UAE government has taken a significant step in understanding the general principles on which the fintech is based. Last Sunday, the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) officially agreed to regulate ICOs and recognize tokens as securities for the welfare of the nation.

ConsenSys has officially launched a 12-week Ethereum Blockchain developer programme in full support of one million (1m) Arab Coders, a development by the Dubai Future Foundation, created to array and fully equip juvenile Arabs with coding skills and education.

On March 6, 2018, the management of the BitRent blockchain platform held a closed presentation for key investors and heads of the UAE construction departments. The event was named “BitRent Private Conference”.

The international project Boosteroid, which creates a cloud services platform, starts construction of a new data center in the free industrial zone of Georgia - the city of Kutaisi. This will be the second information processing center of the company, the first was launched in Ukraine in December 2017. The team will begin to prepare the space and order the components already at the end of January this year.

Emirates Islamic will become the first Islamic bank in the UAE to integrate Blockchain technology into its cheques.

October 5, 2016 – The government of Dubai, UAE, has announced its plans to use Blockchain technology for all government documents by 2020.

The UAE and Kimberley Process is to use Blockchain technology to fight “blood diamonds” trading on the world market.

The capital of modern engineering wonders in UAE announced the launch a new program "Dubai Future Accelerators" as part of the Dubai Future Agenda.