VARA VASP licence
Dubai, UAE regime for crypto services. Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority issues the authorisation. Typical lead time is 6–12 mo. Tags on company profiles are checked against public registers before they publish.
No companies in the directory hold VARA VASP licence yet. When holders appear, each tag links to the regulator's public register where a reference is supplied.
No holders listed yet.
Companies holding this authorisation appear once evidence is checked in the directory.
What VARA VASP licence actually signals
Dubai, UAE regime for crypto services. Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority issues the authorisation; for a buyer it signals which regulated activity a provider claims on its profile.
No companies in this directory hold VARA VASP licence yet. When holders appear, each tag links to the regulator's public register where a reference is supplied. Typical lead time is 6–12 mo.
The register entry matters more than the marketing label. Check which entity name is authorised, which activity scope is listed, and whether the permission is still in force before you treat the tag as compliance approval.
What the authorisation does and does not permit
Read against CASP authorisation, which is routinely confused with it.
The authorisation sequence
6–12 mo in practice. The order matters because step two gates the rest.
Which legal entity will hold the authorisation and where it is registered with Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority.
Broker-dealer, exchange, custody, transfer, lending and advisory in the emirate
Public register entry with a reference number matching the entity name on the application.
Reserve, transaction, or conduct reporting depending on the regime and the activity authorised.
VARA VASP licence, answered
From real buyer questions. Marked up as FAQPage.
Everyone reads complex regimes as a single authorisation. Check which activity the register actually shows — custody, transfer and issuance are frequently separate permissions, and the marketing label rarely matches the register entry exactly.