A defining leap toward an AI-native economy, positioning Ras Al Khaimah and the UAE at the forefront of global innovation and delivering a key prerequisite for the nation’s agentic AI government revolution

UAE Innovation City Launches the World’s First Blockchain-Based Digital Business Identity, Powered by IOPn

RAS AL KHAIMAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -May 4^th, 2026: Today, Innovation City, the UAE’s premier AI-powered free zone in Ras Al Khaimah, announces the launch of the world’s first blockchain-based digital business identity system. Every company registered here now receives a sovereign, living, cryptographically verifiable identity powered by IOPn’s native layer on blockchain, OPN chain.

This is not an upgrade. This is a complete re-architecture of how businesses exist, prove themselves, and interact in the 21st century.

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