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Abu Dhabi-based M2 Capital has announced a $20 million investment in Ethena, a fast-growing decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol, in a deal that underscores the Middle East’s ambition to become a global hub for digital assets.
2025-9-25 13:18 | |
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Bitcoin has clawed its way back above the $100,000 after briefly dipping below the key psychological level for the first time in months driven by Middle East geopolitical tensions. The rebound follows a steep sell-off brought on by rising Middle…
2025-6-23 07:03 | |
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Uncertainty in the Middle East drove volatility despite protocol reaching 46 million monthly users.
2025-6-18 19:46 | |
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The crypto market recently suffered a significant downturn due to the escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, with several large-cap assets shedding their recently-accrued gains over the past week.
2024-10-7 17:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) crashed in tandem with stock markets on Oct. 1 as tensions continued to escalate in the Middle East after Israel announced ground operations in Lebanon, which has prompted Iran to take action.
2024-10-2 20:56 | |
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The price action happened as Iran's leadership reportedly ordered retaliatory attacks against Israel, increasing concerns about a broader conflict in the Middle East.
2024-8-2 00:24 | |
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The Middle East has become one of the fastest-growing regions in the cryptocurrency space.… The post Regulation is driving crypto companies to the Middle East, says CoinMENA CEO appeared first on CoinJournal.
2022-7-22 12:13 | |
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With $78 billion in remittances in 2020 from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) combined, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is home to two of the top three remittance corridors in the world.
2021-10-27 08:00 | |
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Bitcoin fell 40 percent this week from coronavirus shocks, but it's still seen as a safe haven in the Middle East.
2020-3-14 23:15 | |
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Huobi Cloud has announced its plan to provide local financial institutions with white-label exchange services in the Middle East and Africa.
2019-11-1 10:18 | |
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Alternate headline: ‘Ripple: we’re replacing the plumbing with post-Internet era plumbing’ or ‘Middle East is the largest remittance market in the world’ Recently in Abu Dhabi, CNBC’s Hadley Gamble interviewed Ripple’s Managing Director for South Asia & MENA, Navin Gupta, who discussed the process of remittance and opportunities for the company in the Middle East.
2019-10-24 20:30 | |
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Coinspeaker Uber Lays Out $3. 1B for the Middle East’s Biggest Ride-Hailing App CareemUber is acquiring Careem, a rival ride-hailing app, which will help Uber to strengthen its positions in the Middle East.
2019-3-26 17:14 | |
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Uber has acquired Careem, a major player in the ride-hailing space across the Middle East, for $3. 1 billion in cash and convertible notes. The latter will continue to operate as an independent company.
2019-3-26 10:34 | |
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Ripple prices drop but bullish Bahrain based Rain will offer six XRP trading pairs to their clients Transaction volumes low averaging 15 million Rain is the first crypto exchange to graduate from SRB’s sandbox and is Sharia compliant.
2019-3-23 22:00 | |
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President Donald Trump overturned decades of U. S Middle East policy Thursday with the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights area on the Syrian border. Noting the Golan Heights are of “critical strategic and security importance,” Trump tweeted: After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability! — Donald J.
2019-3-23 15:36 | |
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Rain is the latest cryptocurrency exchange to add support for XRP and trade it against five fiat currencies including the USD. The exchange is sharia compliant and has the approval of the SRB. The post Ripple Inc Foothold in Middle East, Rain Now Supports XRP appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-3-22 13:45 | |
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For much of the past 75 years or thereabouts, the status of Saudi Arabia as the world’s undisputed energy hegemon has been taken for granted, with the kingdom exporting roughly 7 million barrels of oil per day, making it by far the world’s largest oil producer and one of the wealthiest countries on the planet.
2019-3-12 16:04 | |
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Emaar, the world’s biggest property company outside of China, developers of the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa and the biggest company in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with $7.
2019-3-11 19:08 | |
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Cutting-edge blockchain ATM prototypes are being rolled out in Saudi Arabia with a unique take on granting users access to funds. The ATMs use biometric scanners to scan the face of each account holder as part of a five-factor authentication process secured by a blockchain app being used by the largest ATM provider in the Middle East.
2019-3-2 00:32 | |
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The Central Bank of Bahrain has issued one of the most comprehensive set of cryptocurrency regulations in the Middle East, including rules on licensing, governance, and risk management for the new asset class.
2019-2-26 13:18 | |
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The central bank of Bahrain (CBB) has issued regulations for businesses engaging in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency-related activities. The Middle East’s tiniest nation becomes the first in the region to provide official government backing for the emerging asset class.
2019-2-26 01:00 | |
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The CEO of Mercury FX, Alastair Constance, has announced that Mercury FX has commenced arrangements with the aim of using the xRapid framework by XRP, to run transactions many times faster than they currently are run.
2019-2-25 20:30 | |
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Israel is a nation full of booming tech startups. In fact, according to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Tel Aviv has more startups per capita than anywhere else in the world, earning it the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, or better known as Silicon Wadi.
2019-2-22 12:00 | |
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In this edition of The Daily we cover a number of cryptocurrency-related business collaborations from around the world. These include Sirin Labs and Simplex, Middle East-focused crypto exchange Cbx, and Heliocor, IPC and ICE Data Services.
2019-2-21 14:01 | |
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Ripple has scored yet another point in its quest for world domination, this time in the middle east where the Bank of Dohfar has joined its platform to facilitate cross-border transactions. This comes just a few weeks after Ripple signed up the National Bank of Kuwait to its platform. The New was confirmed by Navin […]
2019-2-18 21:27 | |
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Former Wall Street hedge fund manager and popular Bitcoin proponent Mike Novogratz thinks that institutional money will start coming into the cryptocurrency market in the next 6 to 12 months as custody solutions are rolled out.
2019-2-14 22:00 | |
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News reaching Ethereum World News indicate that the South Korean crypto exchange of Bithumb is planning to expand its roperations to the Middle East. According to Coindesk Korea, the firm announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the UAE-based company of Nvelop to spearhead a joint venture in the country in […] The post Bithumb Announces Plans to Launch a Crypto Exchange in the UAE appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-2-13 16:14 | |
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UAE first on the list for Bithumb’s Middle East expansion: report
2019-2-12 14:08 | |
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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb plans to expand in the Middle East, starting with a licensed exchange in the UAE.
2019-2-12 13:00 | |
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One of the most prominent crypto exchange with about 400 trading pairs recently announced that they witnessed a 100% year-on-year growth in trading volumes in 2018. Huobi is a company that has grown exponentially within a very short time frame and has been able to open local subsidiaries in the Middle East, the United State, […]
2019-2-8 18:00 | |
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After receiving several sanctions from the United States in 2018, which made life quite difficult in the country, Iran is currently on its way to becoming one of the first crypto-friendly nations in the Middle East.
2019-2-8 03:58 | |
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Iran is resolutely stepping forward to become the first crypto nation in the Middle East. The need to float its economy after the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States and the intense political and financial pressures exerted against the government has led Hasan Rohani’s team to see in the cryptocurrency salvation for the economy.
2019-2-7 13:05 | |
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The Korean-Chinese joint blockchain project “Davinci Foundation” in partnership with American Music Streaming company “TOWB Music” to boost Davinci’s ecosystem and presence in the North & South America, Europe, Middle East markets.
2019-1-14 22:16 | |
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Ripple’s Head of Infrastructure Innovation Dilip Rao recently talked about the importance of the MENA region for the company. He said that the Middle East and North Africa is adopting DLT solutions from Ripple, claiming that the region is the fastest adopter of the company’s technology.
2019-1-14 19:29 | |
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In 2018, Kaspersky Lab recorded a 4-fold increase in cryptomining attacks in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region from 3. 5 million in 2017 to 13 million this year, the firm said on December 14.
2018-12-19 02:57 | |
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Mining malware became more prevalent in the region in 2018, but not necessarily for the reasons Kaspersky Lab predicted.
2018-12-18 00:14 | |
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A major payments provider in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is implementing blockchain-based systems to operate remittance facilities, while the country’s government is discussing the creation of a state-backed cryptocurrency in partnership with Saudi Arabia, as per two reports in the week of December 11, 2018.
2018-12-17 18:00 | |
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Former Prime Minister of Estonia, Air France KLM, Renault, Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, and many more to highlight the various applications of blockchain and how they are transforming operations.
2018-12-17 09:00 | |
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VeChain and BIOS Middle East cooperation announced Popular supply chain management blockchain platform VeChain will be cooperating with an enterprise called BIOS Middle East. VeChain is a well-known entity on the crypto market, offering a wide range of blockchain solutions for enterprises looking to exist in the upcoming Internet of Things era.
2018-12-17 00:42 | |
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UAE Exchange, one of the leading global money transfer and exchange solutions, plans to implement RippleNet into its service by Q1 of 2019. The move would make UAE Exchange the largest payment solutions provider in the Middle East to use Ripple’s technology.
2018-12-14 03:08 | |
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Finablr’s UAE Exchange, one of the largest remittance services in the Middle East, plans to launch a cross-border remittance service with Ripple.
2018-12-13 18:06 | |
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With over 65M users, Spuul, a Singapore-based VOD, OTT and Live TV platform which focuses on untapped local languages and regions including India, Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand, is all set to lead the STO wave with a unique model called ...
2018-11-27 14:58 | |
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CryptoNinjas BitOasis, the Dubai headquartered bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange serving the Middle East and North Africa today announced that Stellar Lumen (XLM) tokens are now available on the company’s digital asset trading exchange.
2018-11-20 20:40 | |
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Российская ассоциация криптоиндустрии и блокчейна (РАКИБ) начнет заниматься нейтрализацией киберрисков. В партнерстве с AIG MEA ассоциация разработает страховые продукты для минимизации основных рисков, встречающиеся в ходе работы над блокчейн-проектами.
2018-11-20 11:35 | |
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X8 AG, a Swiss financial technology firm has successfully obtained Islamic scholars certification for its fiat and gold-backed cryptocurrency from Shariyah Review Bureau (SRB), an Islamic advisory firm licensed by the central bank of Bahrain, Reuters reports, November 12, 2018.
2018-11-14 22:00 | |
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X8 AG, a Switzerland-based blockchain technology company and creator of value preservation payment token X8X, has obtained the approval from Islamic scholars in order to be marketed as a Sharia-compliant digital currency.
2018-11-13 14:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas aelf, a multi-chain network, and blockchain for business, announced today its entrance into the emerging Middle East blockchain economy through its new strategic partnership with the Dubai-based consultancy, Connect Global Strategies.
2018-11-13 10:45 | |
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Sharia-compliance finance is becoming a field of choice for several fintech companies as regulators and market participants in the Middle East seem keen on attracting new business. Now, Swiss-based cryptocurrency firm X8 has become the latest to acquire an Islamic finance certification.
2018-11-13 06:00 | |
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The permit will be the basis for X8’s plans to expand in the Middle East, including the establishment of a local virtual asset exchange.
2018-11-13 22:11 | |
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Tools and better user experience are key if we want Web3 to see the fast growth we saw at the inception of the internet, says K3 Labs’s William Herkelrath.
Consumer-facing blockchain applications with intuitive user experiences could bring more mainstream cryptocurrency users.
Azura completed a $6.9 million investment round backed by the Winklevoss twins, Volt Capital and Alliance DAO.
Puma’s latest partnership could be a “pivotal moment for mainstream crypto adoption” and play-to-earn gaming.
Trump is launching the World Liberty Financial DeFi platform, Uniswap’s CEO denies charging for protocol deployment, and the Sonic blockchain hits 720ms finality.
Solana-based liquid staking could attract more retail investors due to increased liquidity and capital efficiency compared to regular staking.