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 middle 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 targeted 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 by which people and machines co-exist, co-create worth, and thrive collectively within the Age of Abundance.

The MEFZ contains a number of sides, specializing in 4 core pillars:

• Regulation: As a part of the MEFZ, peaq is engaged on the event and testing of a variety of regulatory initiatives and sandboxes, comparable to 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, gadgets and applied sciences aimed toward powering extra superior good cities.
• Funding: peaq is connecting prime apps (DePINs) on peaq with essentially the most visionary funding our bodies and institutional companions within the area, enabling them to scale and deploy at lightning velocity.
• Innovation Hub: peaq is establishing a regional innovation hub targeted on supporting DePIN (Decentralized Bodily Infrastructure) apps in analysis and growth, deployment, and reference to “demand aspect” 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 ingredient in peaq’s “Machine DeFi” imaginative and prescient for a decentralized monetary system for robots, autos, and machines.

The MEFZ can even embrace the world’s first pilot of “Common Fundamental Possession (UBO)” – an revenue stream straight tied to machine-generated earnings, with no intermediaries. The aim of the UBO pilot can be to make use of the MEFZ to check how abundance generated by robots might be straight distributed to people and communities affected by job automation. peaq can even make the Emirates the middle of its operations, establishing its new headquarters there.

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

The Machine Financial system is on the proverbial doorstep, pushed by the rise of AI and robotics, also called Physical AI. A world the place machines create worth autonomously with little to no human interference now not looks as if a utopian dream. With out Web3, although, this transformation can worsen the prevailing financial scenario, with innovation and its advantages concentrated within the arms 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 record that can create the surroundings for founders to construct, deploy, create income, community, increase 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 yr. The profitable occasions noticed a number of apps (DePINs) constructing on peaq showcase their purposes in motion and make the case for Web3 as an important a part of good cities earlier than a distinguished viewers of presidency officers and enterprise decision-makers. The attendee record 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 prime firms and authorities our bodies.

“We’re honored to be a part of peaq’s transformative journey. peaq is redefining what’s potential for the way forward for the Machine Financial system. By boldly bridging the bodily and digital worlds by way of a decentralized, scalable, and sustainable Layer-1 blockchain, peaq is laying the inspiration for a brand new period of real-world connectivity and autonomy. That is greater than know-how—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 one of the crucial revolutionary nations on the earth, is the proper 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 folks to personal and earn from the gadgets, 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 dwelling to greater than 60 purposes in 20+ industries and to tens of millions of gadgets 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 info, customers can go to peaq or comply with peaq on Twitter/X for updates.

About Pulsar

Pulsar is a pioneering enterprise studio and consultancy primarily based in Abu Dhabi, specializing in serving to know-how 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 creating strategic frameworks and fostering collaboration with regional companions, Pulsar facilitates their companions’ market adoption and progress within the UAE and the area.

For extra info, customers can go to Pulsar.