Digital Token Issuance License UAE

Market Analysis

VARA's VA Issuance category (Category 1, per VARA's own naming) — covers issuing a new virtual asset/token to the public or to investors. This is a one-time or campaign-based activity rather than an ongoing service, which changes how VARA structures its fees compared to the continuous-supervision categories elsewhere in this dataset: issuance-specific costs are typically assessed per issuance/campaign rather than as a flat annual supervision fee, on top of VARA's baseline application review.

"Digital Token Issuance" here, and "Initial Coin Offering Services," "Security Token Offering," "Token Issuance," "VA Issuance Category-1," "VA Issuance Category-2," and "Virtual Asset Issuance" elsewhere in this dataset, are seven DED naming variants circling the same regulatory activity, with "Security Token Offering" specifically implying assets structured to resemble securities — a materially different compliance path (potentially overlapping with SCA, the UAE's securities regulator) than a pure utility-token ICO.

Dubai-only in practice; 100% foreign ownership applies.

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