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Dubai Makes History: First Tokenized Money Market Fund Gets Green Light

Dubai Makes History: First Tokenized Money Market Fund Gets Green Light

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2025-07-08 13:30:31
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Dubai just flipped the script on traditional finance—again.

The city’s regulators approved the world’s first tokenized money market fund, catapulting crypto into the heart of institutional investing. No more clunky paperwork, no more 3-day settlement waits. Just blockchain efficiency meeting yield-hungry capital.

Why it matters: This isn’t just a fund. It’s a Trojan horse. Tokenization eats traditional finance one asset class at a time—and Dubai’s serving the main course.

The cynical take? Banks will now scramble to ‘innovate’ after years of dismissing crypto as a fad. Too little, too late—the rails are being rebuilt without them.

Bottom line: When money markets go on-chain, the game changes. Sleepy institutional portfolios just got a shot of adrenaline.

The initiative is part of a broader effort to modernize financial services in the Middle East through asset tokenization and smart contract integration.

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Multi-purpose financial infrastructure for digital finance

QCDT is designed with versatility in mind, aiming to meet the needs of a wide range of institutional players. Banks can use the fund as eligible collateral in credit and settlement frameworks, while centralized cryptocurrency exchanges can adopt it as mapped collateral for tokenized trading environments. The fund’s tokenized structure also makes it suitable for backing stablecoin reserves and supporting the transactional foundation for emerging Web3 payment systems.

The fund’s approval signals growing regulatory confidence in blockchain-powered financial products and opens the door for more tokenized instruments to enter regulated markets across the Gulf region.

Kosta Gushterov

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Kosta has been working in the crypto industry for over 4 years. He strives to present different perspectives on a given topic and enjoys the sector for its transparency and dynamism. In his work, he focuses on balanced coverage of events and developments in the crypto space, providing information to his readers from a neutral perspective.

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