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Singapore-based cryptocurrency change Crypto.com will quickly be capable of prolong its companies in Dubai, after it obtained a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) Preparatory License from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). 

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• “The MVP phase in its preparatory stage allows for approved licensees to fulfill all pre-conditions required to undertake MVP market operations within the VARA regime. Once licensed to be operational, Crypto.com will be able to extend its approved suite of duly regulated virtual assets activities spanning a range of crypto exchange services,” the corporate said in a statement on Monday. 
• Crypto.com had obtained the initial provisional approval from VARA in June.
• VARA is the only real authority regulating digital property throughout Dubai, in accordance with its web site. It goals to place Dubai as a regional and worldwide hub for digital property, promote digital property and entice investments and companies to arrange their base in Dubai.
• Dubai has been granting licenses to crypto exchanges and attracting investments within the digital property trade. It additionally announced last year plans to be one of many prime 10 cities globally within the metaverse economic system, creating 40,000 digital jobs and including US$4 billion to town’s economic system in 5 years. 
• Binance, world’s largest crypto change, also received the MVP license from Dubai’s VARA final yr, together with corporations like Hex Trust and Komainu. 
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