Dubai's VARA caps retail crypto leverage at 5:1 in new exchange-traded derivatives framework
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Promote with Leviathan News5x with 20% initial margin mirrors traditional commodity futures — VARA is benchmarking crypto derivatives against TradFi risk tiers rather than treating them as exotic. But they also reserved power to force-liquidate positions and suspend products without prior notice, which introduces sovereign counterparty risk that offshore venues don't carry. UK banned retail crypto derivatives outright in 2020; Dubai is betting it can capture that displaced flow by offering regulated access under a kill switch it controls unilaterally.
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