Permission to trade perpetual futures on a fully licensed venue changes the calculus for institutional desks that have been sidelined by compliance uncertainty. HashKey MENA confirmed it received approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority on 17 July 2026, expanding its permitted activities to include Virtual Asset Exchange-Traded Derivatives (VA ETD) Services, according to the original report. The firm already operated a spot trading business in the region. Now it can layer perpetual futures on top, a product that routinely dominates global crypto volume.