Assets · Central-bank money · issued by Central Bank of the UAE
Digital DirhamNew
The UAE's central bank digital currency, a direct claim on the Central Bank of the UAE that the 2025 central bank law makes legal tender; distributed through licensed institutions (two-tier model). Retail and wholesale uses are planned; the first pilot payment was between government entities on mBridge.
Asset sources[1]
- Value per token
- AED 1
Issued through Central Bank of the UAE Digital Dirham pilot Pilot
Classification · high confidence
- Legal form
- Central-bank money from issuer status
- Underlying
- Money
- Value behaviour
- Stable value
- Ledger role
- Native
Parent term kept: the law covers both retail and wholesale use and only a government-to-government pilot payment has been made (editor decision 2026-10-21-classification-7: keep the parent until retail issuance starts). yieldBearing gap: not stated.
Sourced[1]. How assets are classified: methodology.
Contracts
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Sources
- [1]UAE Formalizes Digital Dirham as Legal Tender with New Federal Decree — Hadef & Partners, 15 Jan 2026. Accessed 17 Oct 2026.B