Crypto.com has entered into a strategic partnership with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) to explore blockchain-based applications aimed at expanding tokenization and digital infrastructure across global commodities markets. The collaboration, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding, will focus on applying distributed ledger technology to modernize commodities trade models, with an emphasis on improving settlement efficiency, transparency, and market access.
The partnership will specifically evaluate the use of blockchain tools in key commodities segments, including precious metals, diamonds, energy, and agricultural products. A central component of the agreement involves exploring the potential listing of tokenized commodities on the Crypto.com exchange, subject to meeting applicable regulatory standards and listing criteria. The alliance also aims to develop custody models for tokenized assets and analyze liquidity facilitation products to activate secondary markets.
This initiative builds upon DMCC's existing partnership with Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), which seeks to develop infrastructure for tokenizing commodities within a regulated framework. DMCC's Executive Chairman and CEO, Ahmed Bin Sulayem, described the growing tokenization trend among traditional financial institutions as a "structural opportunity to modernise how commodities are financed, traded and settled, bringing greater transparency and widening access to global markets."
Beyond infrastructure development, the cooperation includes an educational component where Crypto.com will collaborate with the DMCC Crypto Centre. The parties plan to organize technical training, workshops, hackathons, and skills-building courses designed for companies exploring tokenized asset models, with the goal of promoting institutional knowledge and responsible experimentation in Dubai's growing Web3 ecosystem.
In a separate but related announcement, Crypto.com also revealed a partnership with ERShares and Signal Markets to create a global future-intelligence platform based on prediction markets. This platform, operating under Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA), will integrate macroeconomic data, financial market indicators, and corporate outcomes into a single prediction-driven system, incorporating probabilistic modeling for interest rates, inflation, employment, equities, commodities, digital assets, and corporate earnings.
