Dubai’s Digital Belongings Regulatory Authority (VARA) has introduced that it shall create a metaverse headquarters in The Sandbox digital world. The digital headquarters shall be known as “MetaHQ” and shall be based mostly at an unknown location inside The Sandbox digital world.
The launch of “MetaHQ” is a part of Dubai’s makes an attempt to change into a digital asset hub.
In a press release to WAM information company, the Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Government Council, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, mentioned:
“Our presence within the metaverse… marks the start of a brand new section within the Dubai authorities’s march for the longer term; one that may have a constructive influence in the long term.”
The function of the “MetaHQ”
The VARA has not supplied a number of particulars concerning the precise function of the MetaHQ.
The VARA nonetheless mentioned that the digital headquarters would:
“function its major channel to interact [Virtual Asset Service Providers] throughout the globe to provoke functions, allow youthful licensees [to] enter the metaverse, overtly share information and experiences with shoppers and peer regulators to boost consciousness, allow secure adoption, and drive international interoperability.”
The event exhibits how briskly Dubai is popping right into a crypto hub after the VARA was launched in the beginning of March. VARA was created to help in advancing the authorized framework and regulatory system of digital belongings within the UAE and particularly in Dubai.
Amongst different issues, crypto corporations wishing to function within the UAE should acquire a crypto license from the VARA. The VARA was additionally assigned the responsibility of regulating the actions of asset managers and custodians inside the crypto house within the UAE.