VARA Named Host Partner as Digital Assets Week Debuts in Dubai

Leaders from institutional finance, digital assets, regulation and market infrastructure will gather at the Dubai Exhibition Centre on 4 February 2027 for Digital Assets Week Dubai.

Dubai, UAE – Digital Assets Week, an institutional conference series exploring how tokenisation is reshaping capital markets, will make its Dubai debut on 4 February 2027. The Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has been confirmed as Host Partner.

At the Dubai Exhibition Centre, the event will assemble financial institutions, institutional investors, regulators, exchanges, infrastructure providers and other major market participants to look at what comes next in institutional adoption of digital assets.

After editions in London, New York and Hong Kong, the Dubai launch underscores the region’s expanding role in regulated digital-asset markets and institutional tokenisation.

The practical developments behind the move to tokenised capital markets will be the focus of the single-day programme. Discussion will span regulation, stablecoins, tokenised deposits, custody, market infrastructure, real-world asset tokenisation, DeFi and institutional yield.

The agenda features:

• What Dubai’s specialist model has delivered on regulation as a competitive advantage
• Stablecoins, tokenised deposits or the digital dirham — the dirham moves on-chain
• Does the Gulf have the most pressing need for 24/7 markets and atomic settlement?
• From title deed to token: what the world is learning from Dubai’s real estate experiment
• Institutional plumbing: custody and banking rails
• Could Islamic finance be tokenisation’s natural home through tokenised sukuk?
• What compliant DeFi would look like as DeFi is brought into TradFi
• The direction of capital flows in tokenisation and stablecoin infrastructure
• Tokenised yield for Gulf capital: treasuries, money-market funds and working collateral

Digital Assets Week is shaped around a tightly curated institutional audience, pairing traditional market participants with the technology, infrastructure and regulatory bodies that are pushing digital assets forward.

In the months ahead, the event will announce its first speakers and participating organisations.

Further details on attending, speaking and sponsorship are posted at daweek.org/dubai.