peaq and Pulsar launch Machine Economy Free Zone for the United Arab Emirates

[PRESS RELEASE – Abu Dhabi, UAE, June 11th, 2025]

The far-reaching initiative goals to set the foundations for the Machine Financial system within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and can heart on advancing regulation and funding frameworks, deploying robots (Bodily AI) and bodily infrastructure (DePINs), and driving related innovation within the area.

peaq, the Machine Financial system laptop, and Pulsar Group, a number one Emirati enterprise studio and consultancy centered on tech and blockchain, unveil the world’s first Machine Financial system Free Zone, to be launched in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

The Machine Financial system Free Zone (MEFZ) is a sandbox surroundings for a human-centric Machine Financial system as envisioned by peaq — a society wherein people and machines co-exist, co-create worth, and thrive collectively within the Age of Abundance.

The MEFZ consists of a number of aspects, specializing in 4 core pillars:

• Regulation: As a part of the MEFZ, peaq is engaged on the event and testing of a spread of regulatory initiatives and sandboxes, resembling compliant tokenization and funding into autonomous machines and robots.
• Deployment: peaq is working with Emirati companions to arrange bodily and digital sandboxes the place founders can experiment with new enterprise fashions and deploy apps, units and applied sciences aimed toward powering extra superior sensible cities.
• Funding: peaq is connecting high apps (DePINs) on peaq with probably the most visionary funding our bodies and institutional companions within the area, enabling them to scale and deploy at lightning pace.
• Innovation Hub: peaq is establishing a regional innovation hub centered on supporting DePIN (Decentralized Bodily Infrastructure) apps in analysis and improvement, deployment, and reference to “demand facet” organizations.

Among the many first initiatives to be examined within the MEFZ is a framework for Machine Tokenization, which goals to decrease the barrier to entry for people to spend money on costlier robots and machines. A key component in peaq’s “Machine DeFi” imaginative and prescient for a decentralized monetary system for robots, autos, and machines.

The MEFZ may also embody the world’s first pilot of “Common Fundamental Possession (UBO)” – an earnings stream immediately tied to machine-generated earnings, with no intermediaries. The purpose of the UBO pilot shall be to make use of the MEFZ to check how abundance generated by robots will be immediately distributed to people and communities affected by job automation. peaq may also make the Emirates the middle of its operations, organising its new headquarters there.

The Machine Financial system Free Zone units the muse for a Machine Financial system within the United Arab Emirates, boosting the nation’s sensible metropolis and blockchain innovation by community-powered apps, networks, and machines, and paves the way in which to wider international adoption of this imaginative and prescient at a nation-state degree.

The Machine Financial system is on the proverbial doorstep, pushed by the rise of AI and robotics, also referred to as Physical AI. A world the place machines create worth autonomously with little to no human interference now not looks like a utopian dream. With out Web3, although, this transformation can worsen the present financial state of affairs, with innovation and its advantages concentrated within the palms of some firms. With peaq, these are the early days of a future the place communities co-own, earn from, and govern the equipment the world runs on.

These initiatives are the primary on a protracted listing that may create the surroundings for founders to construct, deploy, create income, community, elevate funds, go to market, and scale quick and with full regulatory compliance.

The announcement follows the Machine Economy Days in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, which peaq and Pulsar organized earlier within the 12 months. The profitable occasions noticed a number of apps (DePINs) constructing on peaq showcase their functions in motion and make the case for Web3 as an important a part of sensible cities earlier than a distinguished viewers of presidency officers and enterprise decision-makers. The attendee listing included His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Suroor Al Nahyan in addition to representatives of the Ministry of Financial system, Abu Dhabi Division of Municipalities, Careem, Microsoft, and different high firms and authorities our bodies.

“We’re honored to be a part of peaq’s transformative journey. peaq is redefining what’s doable for the way forward for the Machine Financial system. By boldly bridging the bodily and digital worlds by a decentralized, scalable, and sustainable Layer-1 blockchain, peaq is laying the muse for a brand new period of real-world connectivity and autonomy. That is greater than expertise—it’s a motion, and we’re proud to assist form what comes subsequent.” – Alyazi Al Khattal, CEO of Pulsar.

“The Machine Financial system is now not a far-fetched dream, it’s a actuality shortly shaping up earlier than our very eyes,” says Until Wendler, co-founder of peaq. “peaq makes this transformation work for everybody — and the Emirates, as probably the most revolutionary nations on the earth, is the right place to pilot this imaginative and prescient, setting a template and instance for the remainder of the world.”

About peaq

peaq is the pc and working system powering the worldwide, human-centric Machine Financial system. peaq empowers individuals to personal and earn from the units, robots, autos, and infrastructure they use. The peaq community is designed to be the go-to spine for the Machine Financial system, and is already residence to greater than 60 functions in 20+ industries and to tens of millions of units and machines that run on them. peaq serves because the permissionless, borderless infrastructure and monetary system for more and more clever machines to serve all of humanity as AI-driven job automation will increase. An open economic system that anybody can opt-in into and share within the Age of Abundance.

For extra data, customers can go to peaq or comply with peaq on Twitter/X for updates.

About Pulsar

Pulsar is a pioneering enterprise studio and consultancy based mostly in Abu Dhabi, specializing in serving to expertise disruptors navigate advanced regulatory environments, construct strategic partnerships, and speed up market growth. Pulsar companions with daring tech disruptors and leaders of the digital economic system. By leveraging their experience in growing strategic frameworks and fostering collaboration with regional companions, Pulsar facilitates their companions’ market adoption and development within the UAE and the area.

For extra data, customers can go to Pulsar.