UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies

Happy New Year 2025 from the Exponential Science team! 🎅🏻 We have so many wishes for you, watch 2 find out 👀

It’s Monday again! Let’s kickstart this last week of the year with our mission 🇬🇧 We help position the UK as a global leader in blockchain technologies. As simple as that.

On the 4th day of Christmas ... we'd like to share our fourth video from this year's Digital Money Event, which was sponsored by Quant, TPX™ Property Exchanges, Clifford Chance, Owl Explains by Ava Labs 🔺, R3, and Travers Smith. In this panel discussion with Daniel Coheur, Francesco Pierangeli, Jonny Fry, and Anoosh Arevshatian, we explored tokenization and whether greater regulatory clarity around digital currencies is what's needed for mainstream adoption. Watch the full video here 👉 https://buff.ly/4gpCdEI

Happy holidays! 🎄 Paolo Tasca and Nikhil Vadgama conclude the great year for Exponential Science: Officially launched during the P2P Financial Systems International Workshop workshop in Dubai 3 months ago we are proud to look back at the main achievements of 2024: 🎉 We launched Exponential Science Pioneers Award 🎉 We introduced several new initiatives this year, including the MiCA Crypto Alliance 🎉 We funded the technology behind the Decentralized Recovery Alliance (DeRec) 🎉 We launched the DLT Climate Hackathon via DLT Earth to bolster our work in blockchain and sustainability 🎉 Our venture arm is developing exciting new initiatives, including Nodiens 🎉 We joined the The Linux Foundation and played a key role in establishing the Linux Foundation Decentralised Trust initiative Approaching 2025, we are excited to push the boundaries of innovation and impact even further. We extend our heartfelt thanks to each of you for your support, with special gratitude to our main partner, Hedera, for its forward-thinking vision. Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a prosperous year ahead! 🎅

🇬🇧 UK's Digital Asset Regulation Update 🚨 UK City Minister Tulip Siddiq MP shared some massive updates for the future of DLT and tokenisation in the UK. The government will unveil a comprehensive crypto asset regulatory framework in early 2025, covering stablecoins, staking, and more. Key highlights include: - Stablecoins will be regulated under a new regime, separate from existing payment services, reflecting their unique use cases. - The UK government is committed to providing regulatory certainty while fostering innovation. - A draft framework for crypto asset regulatory should be unveiled in early 2025. - Staking services will not be considered collective investment schemes, simplifying regulations for this growing area. With the promise of more detailed announcements in the coming months, the UK is setting the stage for an exciting future in the crypto world.

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🇬🇧 UK's Digital Asset Regulation Update 🚨 UK City Minister Tulip Siddiq MP shared some massive updates for the future of DLT and tokenisation in the UK. The government will unveil a comprehensive crypto asset regulatory framework in early 2025, covering stablecoins, staking, and more. Key highlights include: - Stablecoins will be regulated under a new regime, separate from existing payment services, reflecting their unique use cases. - The UK government is committed to providing regulatory certainty while fostering innovation. - A draft framework for crypto asset regulatory should be unveiled in early 2025. - Staking services will not be considered collective investment schemes, simplifying regulations for this growing area. With the promise of more detailed announcements in the coming months, the UK is setting the stage for an exciting future in the crypto world.

💥 Hot on the heels of last week’s inspiring Best of UK Blockchain Entrepreneurship event with Steven Bartlett and Investment Minister Poppy Gustafsson… 🖊️… Today Stand With Crypto In The UK has published its report on putting blockchain at the heart of the UK’s modern industrial strategy. 🔗Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionise the UK’s capital markets, put the UK at the forefront of Web3, and act as a foundational technology for every sector of the economy. 📈Putting blockchain technology at the heart of the UK’s modern industrial strategy will drive growth, innovation and investment across the UK economy. If you believe in the power of the blockchain, please share widely… HM Treasury Department for Business and Trade Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Poppy Gustafsson Chi Onwurah Katie Ramsey Showcasing Maria Lema Henry Duckworth Divya Prashanth Ben Putley Raja Sharif Outlier Ventures Animoca Brands Fabric Ventures Kr1 Outward VC Superteam UK Zodia Markets Zodia Custody TP ICAP Blockchain.com Gemini Archax Greengage Coinbase Paul Grewal Faryar Shirzad Daniel Seifert Keith Grose Flight3

We are proud to be partners of the 7th Blockchain International Scientific Conference 🇬🇧 Brought to you by The British Blockchain Association and UCL, #ISC2025 will take place on the 4th of April in London. Don’t miss the last call and submit your abstract by December, 7 and grab the opportunity to present your work! Learn more and submit here: https://lnkd.in/epEb_Gy9

Ikhlaq Sidhu built a Virtual Assets Lab at IE University; Francesco Pierangeli, Paolo Tasca, and their team built a UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies. We are all part of the UBRI Network, sponsored by Ripple and brought together by Lauren Weymouth. As we discussed different topics in UBRI events, we realized we needed to act together. In the world of rapid technological development and the growing gap between tech giants, regulators, entrepreneurs, and society, we need a neutral ground to bring the stakeholders together, debate, research, develop, and, most importantly, act in the interest of humans. And we need that on a global stage. What is a better place for that than a University? On November 29, we met at Nova School of Business and Economics and had an extraordinary meeting to test our hypothesis - is there a need for such an initiative? Thank you Jose Reis Santos and  Nuno Lima da Luz, for your reflections on the Web3 ecosystem in Portugal and for your help in organizing the event at Nova School of Business and Economics. You are invaluable partners in our efforts. Thank you, Matthew Osborne, for your insights into the interactions of Ripple with the regulators and your support to entrepreneurs. Thank you, Pedro Roseiro, and the Decentralize Portugal project for your continuous support! Despite all the limitations of our methodology, the vivid discussions with entrepreneurs, lawyers, regulators, and ecosystem orchestrators made it clear to us - we need to make such a space. Therefore, we decided to launch a Global Network of Technology Regulations Labs. The network will be comprised of Technology Regulation Labs at each university member, which will act independently but in collaboration with the Network.  More news soon! Many thanks to Ripple, Lauren Weymouth and Eric van Miltenburg for providing the seed funding for this initiative through the UBRI Network! Thank you for being the Founding partner of this network. We are open to other chains and technology companies joining and providing their support as we prepare for the global launch in 2025! We are keen to learn from our communities - which problems can we help solve? How can we amplify the impact? We started to work to answer this question with the help of Luis Filipe Lages and his VCW - Value Creation Wheel! Excellent feedback and a solid base to work on. Importantly, I am very grateful to our team from NOVA SBE Data Science Knowledge Center , especially Catarina Mendo Dias and Sara Lopes, for their help in organizing the event. Looking forward to an exciting 2025!