Mark Pascall, co-founder of The Wellbeing Protocol, recently published an account of governance experiments being run through hum, a platform managing shared community treasuries. Although these are not investment funds, they are managing a familiar problem: how groups decide where capital should be allocated. The first governance model, Gov1, was straightforward where every member could propose spending and every member voted equally. In theory it was highly democratic. I

Barclays published a report with PwC on 9 July putting a number on something the UK tokenisation sector has mostly argued from instinct rather than evidence: what the technology is actually worth to the country. The answer, according to "Rewiring Finance: Tokenisation as a Catalyst for UK Growth", is up to £33bn in additional GDP per year by 2035, with roughly two thirds of that benefit landing outside financial services altogether. Just think about that, Most tokenisation c

After spending Tuesday at the London Blockchain Institutional Tokenisation Summit, hosted at DLA Piper, I came away with a different feeling from the one the report leaves you with. Not a contradiction of it, but a serious counterweight. In a room full of asset managers, custodians, market makers, platforms and lawyers, the mood was neither hype nor anxiety. It was practical, curious, and quietly confident. The prevailing view was that the UK's regulatory environment, and the

When the conversation turns to how founders raise money, it almost always turns to equity. Who led the round, at what valuation, on what terms. It is worth pausing on the quieter alternative, because on 29 June a new pot of it opened. Innovate UK is inviting UK registered organisations to apply for

On 30 June, something quietly ends for anyone who owns shares in a private British company. Until that date, trading those shares on the London Stock Exchange's Private Securities Market, the venue built under the UK's new PISCES regime, costs nothing in transaction fees. From 1 July, the first real

A new mid year audit from the crypto research house 21Shares, published on 24 June, contains one figure that anyone watching tokenisation in the UK should sit with. The total value of tokenised real world assets depends almost entirely on which rails you count. On public blockchains, the kind anyone

A dental technology company has put its shares on Solana through a Regulation S offering, and the UK adviser on the deal hints at where private capital formation is heading.

The first big test of tokenised equity exposed the gap between onchain demand and the real shares behind it.

Most of the experiments did not survive in their first form. The problem they were probing is still the most important one in early stage capital.

A checkout button is not usually the stuff of strategy memos. This one is worth a pause.

Standard Chartered's new call is not simply that tokenisation grows. It is that tokenised assets become the fuel decentralised finance runs on.

For most of 2023 and 2024, the tokenisation conversation ran on projections and pilots. McKinsey's $16 trillion market by 2030. Bank proofs of concept that never reached production. Consultations with no output. The gap between the narrative and the working infrastructure was wide enough to justify genuine scepticism. What is different now is that the plumbing is being built in places where it cannot easily be unbuilt. DTCC is not a startup running an experiment. It is the or

London Tech Week in review. Instead, in line with the current mood in Number 10, much of the headline address was given over to a lecture and a warning. Tech firms were told they had three months to prevent children accessing, creating and sharing harmful material or face new legislation, with the Prime Minister telling the room that the pace of change cannot be an excuse for harm and that nobody is getting a free pass. Protecting children online is an entirely legitimate pr

The technology mostly works now. The harder problem is that most people still do not trust or understand it, and that gap is where adoption stalls.

When London Tech Week opens its doors at Olympia on 8 June, a founder sitting in the audience of the new Founders Stage will hear a question asked out loud that, until recently, was mostly muttered in private. Do I really need to raise? For a decade the assumption ran one way. You built something, y

For the tokenised economy to function at scale, money needs to move as efficiently as the assets it is settling. That is the straightforward logic behind a new partnership announced this week between Orbital, a global payment orchestration platform, and Banking Circle, a Luxembourg-domiciled credit

There are events that generate press releases. And then there are the conversations that actually move markets forward, held away from the noise, where the people building real infrastructure say what they genuinely think.

The UK government confirmed today that a Financial Services Bill will form part of the 2026 to 2027 parliamentary programme, following the King's Speech delivered this morning. The bill has been anticipated for months. It will fold the Payment Systems Regulator into the Financial Conduct Authority,

On 6 May 2026, Chainlink, Apex Group, Bluprynt and Hacken announced the successful completion of the Bermuda Monetary Authority's Embedded Supervision Solution. The pilot demonstrated, for the first time at live scale, that regulatory compliance rules can be built directly into digital asset transac

The world's largest asset manager just made two moves that will define the next chapter of tokenised finance. On 9 May 2026, BlackRock filed to launch a new tokenised Treasury fund and proposed creating onchain share classes for an existing $7 billion money-market fund. Taken together, these filings