Regulator · Public evidence graph

Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority — public records tracked by VenueVeritas

Regulator identity

Regulator: Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority
Jurisdiction: AE-DU-VARA
Tracked records: 4
Associated venues: 4
Associated legal entities: 4
Last verified: 2026-09-13

Official register / regulator sourcehttps://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/

What is VARA?

Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) is a AE-DU-VARA authority. VenueVeritas tracks 4 public regulatory record(s) attached to named legal entities — not a global brand licence.

Does this regulator authorize an entire brand?

No. Tracked records on this page attach to named legal entities and AE-DU-VARA. They are not treated as global approval of a brand.

VenueVeritas maps regulatory records to named legal entities and jurisdictional scope. A brand name is not treated as interchangeable with a legal entity, and a regional authorization is not treated as global regulation of the brand.

What this evidence does NOT mean

A VARA record attached to a named legal entity is not a statement that the associated brand is regulated by VARA worldwide.
Authorization, licence, or registration language is entity-scoped and jurisdiction-scoped.
Venues or entities without a row here are not classified as unregulated. They are not on this published graph page.

Deribit FZE’s VARA identifier remains conflict-deferred in Entity Graph V1 and is therefore not listed as a canonical record on this page.

Tracked regulatory records

Venue	Legal entity	Identifier	Type	Scope	Status	Source	Verified
Crypto.com	Foris DAX Middle East FZE	VL/23/10/003	license	VASP Licence [scoped Foris DAX Middle East FZE only — not Foris DAX Limited (KY) and not Foris DAX MT Limited MiCA]Named legal entity and listed jurisdiction only — not brand-wide regulation.	active	Open official source ↗https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/	2026-09-13
OKX	OKX Middle East Fintech FZE	VL/23/12/003	license	VASP Licence — Lending and Borrowing; Management and Investment; Exchange Services (incl. VA Derivatives); Broker-DealerNamed legal entity and listed jurisdiction only — not brand-wide regulation.	active	Open official source ↗https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/okx-middle-east-fintech-fze/	2026-08-26
Binance	Binance FZE	VL/24/04/001	license	VASP Licence — Exchange Services (including VA Derivatives Trading) [scoped Binance FZE]Named legal entity and listed jurisdiction only — not brand-wide regulation.	active	Open official source ↗https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/binance-fze/	2026-09-13
Gate	Gate Technology FZE	VL/25/04/007	license	VASP Licence — Exchange Services [scoped Gate Technology FZE / gate.ae — NOT global gate.com]Named legal entity and listed jurisdiction only — not brand-wide regulation.	active	Open official source ↗https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/gate-technology-fze/	2026-09-13

Each row is Venue → Legal Entity → Regulator → Authorization → Scope → Source → Last verified. VenueVeritas does not shorten this to “brand is regulated by regulator.”

Primary sources

Source (VARA)https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/
Source (Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority)https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/binance-fze/
Source (Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority)https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/gate-technology-fze/
Source (Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority)https://www.vara.ae/en/licenses-and-register/public-register/okx-middle-east-fintech-fze/