Dubai’s AED 1 billion stimulus package marks a clear and timely intervention to reinforce confidence across markets, investors, and the global business community.
With GDP growth of 5.4% in 2025 and a record-high 7th place in the Global Financial Centres Index, Dubai is investing from a position of strength.
As I highlighted in @gulf_news this week, this move underscores Dubai’s continued commitment to providing a stable, enabling environment for businesses, further strengthening its position as the natural global hub for companies looking to grow internationally.
For @DMCCAuthority , it reinforces the trajectory we are already on. Our community of over 26,000 companies demonstrates what is possible when the right ecosystems, infrastructure, capital, and talent come together.
We are now scaling this further through new platforms such as @dmccfinx and DMCC Wealth Hub, alongside key services such as the recently announced Intellectual Property Support Framework.
These initiatives will significantly strengthen our value proposition, support Dubai’s economic diversification, deepen capital formation, and attract further investment from global family offices, foundations, wealth managers, and companies looking to innovate, create, and protect their value from a Dubai base.
At the same time, we continue to invest in the physical and strategic infrastructure that underpins long-term growth.
We are advancing plans for Burj 2020, our new mixed-use tower at Uptown Dubai, which is expected to exceed 600 metres. Meanwhile, two Grade A office towers and two residential towers are well advanced and scheduled for completion by next year.
This is further reinforced by the expansion of Al Maktoum International Airport, which is set to shift Dubai’s economic centre of gravity south and position @UptownDubai as the strategic anchor within this emerging corridor.
Taken together, these developments strengthen our ability to support global businesses at scale.
As we accelerate into our next phase of growth, we are targeting a community of over 50,000 companies, with DMCC FinX alone anticipated to surpass 5,000 member companies across finance, capital, and innovation in the years ahead.
@GulfBusiness
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Midnight 🤝 Monument Bank
Monument is set to become the first UK-regulated bank to tokenize retail customer deposits on a public blockchain — representing interest-bearing savings as digital tokens while remaining fully backed, redeemable in GBP, and protected under existing regulatory frameworks.
Built on Midnight’s privacy-enhancing blockchain infrastructure, this approach ensures that transaction data remains shielded and accessible only to authorized participants — enabling the use of blockchain technology while maintaining the confidentiality and compliance required in regulated financial services.
The initiative begins with a target of £250 million in tokenized deposits and represents the first phase in a broader rollout to expand access to tokenized financial products. Over time, this includes enabling exposure to asset classes such as private equity and structured products, and introducing more flexible lending models — capabilities historically reserved for institutional and private banking clients.
Together, this partnership demonstrates how regulated financial institutions can bring traditional financial products on-chain — unlocking a more flexible, accessible, and programmable financial system without compromising privacy or regulatory standards.
USDCx on @Cardano, a USDC-backed stablecoin with seamless access to crosschain USDC liquidity, is now available via Circle xReserve.
With USDCx, enterprises and end users can power payments, lending, trading, borrowing, liquidity provision, and more using a highly liquid stablecoin.
Supported at launch by Cardano DeFi apps @liqwidfinance, @MinswapDEX, and @SundaeSwap.
Key benefits:
✅USDCx is 1:1 backed by USDC held in xReserve
✅Fully interoperable with USDC across supported chains
✅Trust minimized with no third-party bridges required
**For the first 10 days, IOG will be covering all costs for bridging USDC to USDCx on Cardano, helping early adopters get started without fees or friction.**
Learn more: https://t.co/yOA12hJQDk
How do you bring institutional trust to the speed of blockchain? You don't just tokenize the asset; you re-engineer the architecture.
At Principia, we are building the operating system for on-chain debt. Our platform architecture is built on three modular layers.
Principia Finance is now live.
Explore our new site and learn how Smart Bonds and the Principia Trust Engine bring institutional-grade debt infrastructure to Cardano.
→ https://t.co/TNYKipDxXS
Veridian, the open-source identity wallet and platform by the Cardano Foundation, is now part of the @Chainlink ACE partner ecosystem.
This allows institutions to create verified identity credentials and use them onchain—a major step forward for onchain identity and trust. 🔒
Today we’re launching the Chainlink Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) partner ecosystem, featuring 20+ leading compliance providers, frameworks, & regulators powering the next generation of onchain compliance ↓
The Chainlink ACE partner ecosystem is a network of trusted vendors whose solutions are now natively compatible with ACE.
These partners recognize ACE as the standard for onchain compliance and are integrating their data & services directly into ACE to unlock complete compliance, monitoring, & reporting solutions.
At launch, the Chainlink ACE partner ecosystem includes:
IDENTITY PROVIDERS
• GLEIF—Brings trusted global identity standards to ACE users.
• World—Connects its decentralized World ID to ACE users, allowing World’s proof-of-human protocol to be composed anonymously with data from other ACE partners.
• SumSub—Enables reusable digital identity for users to leverage within ACE through SumSub’s KYC/KYB.
• Persona—Allows ACE users to leverage reusable digital identity via Persona’s KYC/KYB verification.
• Proof—Provides cryptographically secure, verified digital identities for ACE users—both individuals & organizations—to sign and protect their transactions.
• Veridian by the Cardano Foundation—Enables ACE users to issue GLEIF’s vLEI-based credentials offchain, which are then delivered onchain in the form of CCIDs.
RISK SCORING PLATFORMS
• Chainalysis—Streams wallet and transaction risk scores directly into ACE policies for institutional-grade AML controls.
• TRM Labs—Provides real-time risk intelligence to ACE, enabling issuers and protocols to block sanctioned or high-risk activity.
• Hypernative—Provides real-time risk intelligence to ACE, enabling issuers and protocols to block high-risk activity.
• CipherOwl—Delivers risk scores into ACE to power agile, customizable compliance rules.
• Llamarisk—Audits ACE-enabled tokens to provide independent risk scores and assessments.
MONITORING & REPORTING
• Bluprynt—Designs, runs, and manages compliance policies directly on ACE for institutions, while also fulfilling regulatory reporting obligations via automated disclosures and regular or on-demand compliance reports.
• Hacken—Builds real-time security monitoring and alerting on top of ACE to detect threats and abnormal behavior.
• Kaiko—Delivers market data and analytics leveraging ACE transaction data logs.
• Hummingbird—Offers a case management and automated SAR reporting solution on top of ACE.
TOKENIZATION PLATFORMS
• Apex Group—Enforces end-to-end compliance across its tokenization infrastructure.
• Chintai—Uses ACE to define investor and transaction eligibility requirements for Chintai assets in public blockchain environments.
BLOCKCHAINS & LAYER-2 NETWORKS
• Ethereum for Institutions—Co-designs and drives institutional adoption of ACE.
• Linea—Establishes ACE as the standard for compliance in the Linea ecosystem.
• Taiko—Leverages ACE for tokenization use cases within the Taiko ecosystem.
INDUSTRY FRAMEWORKS
• ERC-3643—Unlocks compatibility with the ERC-3643 token standard with ACE’s offchain policy.
• ERC-7943—Co-authored by Build member Brickken, the ERC-7943 token standard uses ACE to power compliance and interoperability.
• Digital Securities Initiative (DSI)—Recognizes ACE as a trusted compliance standard, and is collaborating with Chainlink Labs to make ACE compatible with DSI's regulatory frameworks.
The Chainlink ACE partner ecosystem establishes ACE as the industry standard for onchain compliance, uniting identity, risk, and regulatory infrastructure into the most complete, modular, and enterprise-grade compliance network for digital assets.
Integrate your data & services directly into ACE:
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9/ Principia by Senary Labs (@SenaryLabs) 🧊
Bringing the bond market to Cardano, unlocking capital for SMEs. Principia automates the entire debt lifecycle to slash costs and boost efficiency.
Discover more: https://t.co/bdwvSHjLoP
🚀 Meet the finalist teams shaping the future of digital identity at the Global #vLEI Hackathon 2025:
Theme I: @Clearstream, @ltin_li, Glink, @DowsersFinance, @Settled_Here, @SenaryLabs, @LBGplc
Theme II: @LSEplc , @pixforce_, @dataswyft, #Aimchia, @getsmileapi, #Crif, AEOTrad🚀 Meet the finalist teams shaping the future of digital identity at the Global #vLEI Hackathon 2025:
Theme I: @Clearstream, @ltin_li, Glink, @DowsersFinance, @Settled_Here, @SenaryLabs, @LBGplc
Theme II: @LSEplc , @pixforce_, @dataswyft, #Aimchia, @getsmileapi, #Crif, AEOTrad🚀 Meet the finalist teams shaping the future of digital identity at the Global #vLEI Hackathon 2025:
Theme I: @Clearstream, @ltin_li, Glink, @DowsersFinance, @Settled_Here, @SenaryLabs, @LBGplc
Theme II: @LSEplc , @pixforce_, @dataswyft, #Aimchia, @getsmileapi, #Crif, AEOTrad🚀 Meet the finalist teams shaping the future of digital identity at the Global #vLEI Hackathon 2025:
Theme I: @Clearstream, @ltin_li, Glink, @DowsersFinance, @Settled_Here, @SenaryLabs, @LBGplc
Theme II: @LSEplc , @pixforce_, @dataswyft, #Aimchia, @getsmileapi, #Crif, AEOTrad🚀 Meet the finalist teams shaping the future of digital identity at the Global #vLEI Hackathon 2025:
Theme I: @Clearstream, @ltin_li, Glink, @DowsersFinance, @Settled_Here, @SenaryLabs, @LBGplc
Theme II: @LSEplc , @pixforce_, @dataswyft, #Aimchia, @getsmileapi, #Crif, AEOTrade
The UAE’s SCA and VARA have agreed on a unified framework to regulate virtual assets, enhancing investor protection and fostering innovation in the crypto sector. Read more: https://t.co/aViSgg1MGT
@yashablack@phil_uplc@ESCOweb3 Cardano's core strengths in security and its robust settlement layer should be further leveraged.
A hybrid DEX that combines an off-chain order book for high-speed execution with an on-chain AMM for for secondary liquidity could help drive more capital to Cardano.