{"id":548434,"date":"2026-01-29T07:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/abu-dhabi-company-launches-first-uae-registered-us-dollar-stablecoin\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:53:23","slug":"abu-dhabi-company-launches-first-uae-registered-us-dollar-stablecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/abu-dhabi-company-launches-first-uae-registered-us-dollar-stablecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi company launches first UAE-registered US dollar stablecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abu Dhabi\u2019s Universal Digital has launched USDU, the first US dollar\u2011backed stablecoin registered by the UAE central bank under its Payment Token Services Regulation.<\/p>\n

Abu Dhabi-based Universal Digital has launched USDU, the first US dollar\u2011backed stablecoin to be registered by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) as a Foreign Payment Token under the Payment Token Services Regulation (PTSR), the company said.<\/p>\n

According to a release shared with Cointelegraph, the registration makes Universal the UAE\u2019s first Foreign Payment Token Issuer and creates a clear, regulated US dollar\u2011denominated settlement option for digital assets in the UAE.<\/p>\n

Juha Viitala, a senior executive officer of Universal, told Cointelegraph that the PTSR had allowed a transition period for payment token issuers to become PTSR-compliant and that, among all the USD stablecoins, USDU was the first to obtain such registration.<\/p>\n

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Abu Dhabi\u2019s Universal Digital has launched USDU, the first US dollar\u2011backed stablecoin registered by the UAE central bank under its Payment Token Services Regulation. Abu Dhabi-based Universal Digital has launched USDU, the first US dollar\u2011backed stablecoin to be registered by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) as a Foreign Payment Token under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-548434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}