🚨UK Appoints First #Crypto Recovery Expert for Insolvencies 📍The Insolvency Service UK has hired its first dedicated #crypto intelligence specialist, Andrew Small, to help trace digital assets in bankruptcy cases. 🎤 Neil Freebury, head of intelligence at the Insolvency Service, said: "Crypto is growing in popularity, and we’ve seen the number of insolvency cases involving cryptoasset ownership rise four-fold in the past five years." 📍Some Facts: ➡️ The new cryptoasset intelligence role is based within the Insolvency Service’s Investigation and Enforcement Services team. ➡️ Number of insolvencies where crypto is identified as an asset has increased 420% in five years ➡️ More than £500,000 in cryptoassets identified in insolvency cases last year – 364 times higher than in 2019/20 ➡️ New role will help the agency recover more money owed to creditors in insolvency cases ➡️ Crypto-related recoveries have soared 420% in five years, prompting the move. ⛓️‍💥 To learn more, visit:

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Insolvency Service appoints first dedicated crypto specialist to help recover online assets such as Bitcoin

New crypto specialist will help the agency trace rising number of digital assets held by individuals in bankruptcy and criminal cases

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🌐 The World’s Largest Blockchain University Network. 🏛️ The Journal of The British Blockchain Association (#JBBA) is indexed at universities across 107 countries, making it the most #widely distributed academic blockchain journal in the world. 🎓 Vice Chancellors at these institutions receive copies of the JBBA, supporting our mission to advance evidence-based blockchain research and build trusted knowledge ecosystems. 📈 This global university network, led by the BBA, continues to grow, empowering the next generation of blockchain professionals and innovators. #Blockchain #JBBA #University #AcademicResearch #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #DecentralisedScience #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #HigherEducation #Web3 #ScienceForPolicy #BlockchainForGood

📍Should political parties accept donations in #Crypto? Sarah Olney MP, Liberal Democrats Spokesperson asks Rt Hon Pat McFadden, Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster: #Crypto #Blockchain #Donations

👩‍🌾🌾 Blockchain + AI + Drones = Agriculture reforms https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/06/08/ai-blockchain-and-drones-unite-in-the-agritech-revolution/ 🇬🇧 In 2020, Journal of British Blockchain Association published the world's first peer-reviewed research on Evidence-Based Blockchain's PCIO Framework for Agri-Farming: ➡️ Piece of Cake: Assuring Specific Qualities of Product in Farm Lifecycles with DLT - Can Evidenced Based Practice be supported by Participatory Action Research Methods? (Dr Hannah Rudman FBCS FRSA):

Piece of Cake: Assuring Specific Qualities of Product in Farm Lifecycles with DLT - Can Evidenced Based Practice be supported by Participatory Action Research Methods? | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By Hannah Rudman. This paper presents an Agriculture case study, in the Evidence Based Blockchain

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🚨 Blockchain and Cryptography are among the most in-demand STEM skills in the post-Web economy. 🇬🇧 According to a new report from POST, UK Parliament, nearly half of engineering and tech businesses are struggling to recruit skilled talent. STEM skills shortages are costing the UK economy £1.5 billion per year. 📈 Yet, demand for digital, data, and decentralised technology skills - especially in #Blockchain - is growing faster than ever before. Since 2017, BBA has been actively addressing this gap through education, research, and policy engagement: ✅ The #JBBA – the world's peer-reviewed Web3 Journal in print and online - publishes cutting-edge research and educational content on blockchain science and #policy. ➡️ Blockchain Skills in Demand and Labour Market Cryptoeconomics:

Who is the Blockchain Employee? Exploring Skills in Demand using Observations from the Australian Labour Market and Behavioural Institutional Cryptoeconomics | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By Jessica Olivia Atherton, Alexandra Bratanova & 1 more. Who is a blockchain employee? This research explores evidence-based blockchain literature...

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Web3 Skills and Workforce planning for the UK Economy (APPG, 2024): https://britishblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Blockchain-Technologies-APPG-Minutes-from-APPG-Roundtable-May-2024.pdf https://britishblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Blockchain-Technologies-APPG-Minutes-from-APPG-Roundtable-January-2024-FINAL.pdf ✅ #ISCs – 🌍 Our International Scientific Conferences convene global blockchain researchers to ensure a resilient, future-ready ecosystem: https://britishblockchainassociation.org/isc2025/ ✅🎓 SIBIS – The world’s first “Scholars in Blockchain” Symposium featuring 100+ professors from six continents.

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✅ UK National Blockchain Roadmap (#NBR) 2021: Set the foundation for investing in blockchain education and digital economy alignment: https://britishblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/UK-NBR-Excellence-Standards-Framework.pdf ✅ BBA Metaverse HQ:

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🌐 We believe that evidence-based blockchain education and digital upskilling must become a national priority for economic resilience, global competitiveness, and a future-proof UK workforce. #STEMskills #DigitalEconomy #Web3 #JBBA #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #BBA

🇬🇧 Supported by Innovate UK grant, this research from Royal Holloway, University of London cites the JBBA research conducted by BBA Fellow, Prof Mary Lacity FBBA. ➡️ In 2021, The BBA became the first blockchain industry association in the world to establish its #headquarters in the #Metaverse:

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📍Bitcoin and Natural Resource Economics: ✍🏽 Research from Bridgewater State University, USA 🇺🇸. #Bitcoin #Blockchain

🇵🇹🇧🇷A language spoken by 265 Million+ people worldwide, BBA research infographics are available in #PORTUGUESE! 🌐 Designed by BBA's Centre for Evidence-Based Blockchain, JBBA research papers are summarised and translated into plain-language in Hindi, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Turkish, and all major world languages. ✅ CEBB is the *ONLY* blockchain Think-Tank in the world that produces #Blockchain and #Crypto research summaries and infographics in multiple languages. Via DOAJ and Web of Science, these are also accessible in 150+ countries with over 15 Million+ readers a month, assisting #policymakers and decision-makers, worldwide. 🌐 Some Facts: Portuguese is also the official language in 9 countries and territories: 1. Brazil – 🇧🇷 ~ 216 million speakers 2. Portugal – 🇵🇹 ~ 10 million speakers 3. Angola – 🇦🇴 ~ 32 million speakers 4. Mozambique – 🇲🇿 ~ 33 million speakers 5. Cape Verde – 🇨🇻 ~ 0.5 million speakers 6. Guinea-Bissau – 🇬🇼 ~ 2 million speakers 7. São Tomé and Príncipe – 🇸🇹 ~ 0.2 million speakers 8. Equatorial Guinea – 🇬🇶 ~ 1.3 million speakers 9. East Timor (Timor-Leste) – 🇹🇱 ~ 1.5 million speakers #CEBB #JBBA #evidencebasedblockchain #Crypto #Blockchain #DLT #Research #OpenAccess #Language #Translation #BBA #NFT #Metaverse #DeFi #science

📍📉 Trust in public institutions is in decline, according to the latest research from the UK Parliament’s Office for Science & Technology - POST, UK Parliament. 🔄 To rebuild this trust, we must reimagine how institutions engage with society — through the Quadruple Helix model: ✅ Industry ✅ Academia ✅ Government ✅ Civil Society 🔐 Technologies like #Blockchain can institutionalise trust at scale — enabling transparency, accountability, and auditability across socio-economic systems, according to several research papers published in The #JBBA. 🤝 Forums such as the All-Party Parliamentary Groups play an important role in bringing together diverse stakeholders to explore solutions to these complex challenges, through evidence, dialogue and cross-sector collaboration. 📊 A study published in the Journal of the British Blockchain Association (JBBA) found that 35% of the US workforce is engaged solely in trust maintenance functions: ➡️ Blockchain - A Panacea For Trust Challenges In Public Services? A Socio-technical Perspective (JBBA, 2020)

Blockchain - A Panacea For Trust Challenges In Public Services? A Socio-technical Perspective | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By Ali Shahaab, Ross Maude & 2 more. This research explores how Companies House UK, a government organisation that holds over 4 million UK-based co...

➡️ The Cost of Trust - A Pilot Study (JBBA, 2018)

The Cost of Trust: A Pilot Study | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By Mikayla Novak, Jason Potts & 1 more. This research provides numerical estimates of the cost of trust for the United States economy and the impli...

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🇺🇸 Digital Access to Scholarship Office at Harvard University has cited two JBBA papers in their report on global national-level blockchain developments: #NBR #National #Blockchain #Crypto

'..The BBA have led the development of the UK’s National Blockchain Roadmap, seeking to position the UK as a Blockchain and Crypto Centre of Excellence, defining a 6-Point Action Plan to turbocharge the UK’s Web 3.0 economy....

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🚨 Which Country will be the first to devise Policies and Regulations for Post-Quantum Blockchains? 🌐 The race has begun — and the stakes are monumental. ➡️ How well do you understand the three leading Post-Quantum #Cryptographic algorithms set to reshape blockchain security? 🔐 Is your blockchain quantum-secure? This exclusive infographic from The Journal of the British Blockchain Association (#JBBA) delivers a high-impact comparison of three #signature algorithms: ✅ Falcon ✅ Dilithium ✅ Rainbow 📉 Assessed across: • Memory usage • Execution time • Cryptographic strength • Practicality for real-world blockchain deployment 💡 Key takeaways: • ⚡ Falcon 512 and Dilithium 2 strike an optimal balance between performance and security • 🧠 Rainbow V demands over 1.8MB for a single public key — far too heavy for scalable networks • 🔓 Quantum-resilient cryptography is no longer optional. It is urgently essential. 📊 This isn’t a theoretical exercise — it’s the next frontier of blockchain resilience. 👀 Explore the visual breakdown 🎯 Future-proof your infrastructure 🧭 Post-quantum blockchains aren’t coming — they’re already here. 🔗 Link to full JBBA paper in comments. ✍🏽 Infographic designed by the Centre for Evidence-Based Blockchain (#CEBB), the world’s first centre dedicated to evidence-based practice in blockchain and cryptoassets, established in 2018. ➡️ JBBA Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE FBBA #QuantumComputing #PostQuantum #BlockchainSecurity #Cryptography #Falcon #Dilithium #Rainbow #DigitalTrust #Web3 #CyberSecurity #JBBA #BritishBlockchainAssociation #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #QuantumResilience #PQCrypto

🇦🇱 New JBBA citation from Albania's Mediterranean University of Albania. ➡️ Original JBBA paper cited here: 'A Distributed Ledger Technology Roadmap for Albania: Some Preliminary Reflections' - by Marc Pilkington, Erdita Kumaraku et al:

A Distributed Ledger Technology Roadmap for Albania: Some Preliminary Reflections | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By Marc Pilkington PhD FBBA, Erdita Kumaraku & 2 more. This paper explores a national blockchain and cryptocurrency framework for Albania investiga...

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📍🇬🇧 Financial Conduct Authority is now seeking views on proposed rules and guidance for the activities of issuing a qualifying stablecoin and safeguarding qualifying cryptoassets, including qualifying stablecoins. 📍Who this is for: The proposals will affect consumers and firms who use, or interact with: ✅Qualifying stablecoins ✅Qualifying cryptoassets ✅Traditional finance custodians ➡️ Who needs to read this document: - Firms that issue, or are seeking to issue, fiat-referenced stablecoins in the UK. - Firms that wish to make use of qualifying stablecoins within wider activities (such as retail payments or on-and off-ramping). - Cryptoasset custodians and other firms that carry out, or seek to carry out, safeguarding of qualifying cryptoassets. - Industry groups, law firms and trade bodies representing firms in the cryptoasset sector Auditors providing services to cryptoasset firms. - Professional advisers in the cryptoasset sector. - Consumers and groups representing consumer interests. ------- 🏛️🇬🇧 BBA is the UK's leading industry body established in 2017. We work in collaboration with policymakers, regulators and industry to advance evidence-based adoption of Blockchain technologies. BBA is also the secretariat of APPG on Blockchain Technologies. #FCA #BBA #Stablecoins #Crypto #Blockchain Daniel Harrison

🇬🇧 UK crypto ownership has jumped from 18% to 24%, according to a survey by the crypto exchange Gemini. According to Gemini’s 2025 “State of Crypto” report, despite lacking dedicated regulation like MiCA, the UK outpaced the US on crypto adoption. Memecoins are driving entry into crypto markets, the survey showed. U.K. ownership rose to 24% from 18% in 2024, while France hit 21% (up from 18%). The U.S. ticked up to 21%, and Singapore led with 28%, up from 26%, according to a recent consumer survey by the crypto exchange. More via @npub1x36y...lsth:

Gemini Survey Finds Global Crypto Ownership Increased in 2025, Led by the UK

UK ownership jumped from 18% to 24%, according to a survey by the crypto exchange.

💥 📣 NEW JBBA RESEARCH ALERT: 📍 The Impact of the Exchange Fees on Impermanent Loss of Liquidity Providers for Conservative Automated Market Makers (#AMM) 🚨 This study challenges the long-held belief that liquidity providers (#LPs) in AMMs are destined to suffer impermanent losses. For the first time, the authors provide closed-form formulas and #data-driven modelling showing that impermanent gain is not only possible but prevalent in systems like #Uniswap, Balancer, and #Curve, when non-zero #exchange fees and small trade volumes intersect. Key Highlights Redefining Risk: The paper analytically proves that impermanent gain exists in a significant share of real-world #Ethereum-based AMM trades, especially where fees are appropriately set. Empirical Evidence: Historical data shows that over 95% of trades in pools like #Uniswap and #Sushiswap led to impermanent gains for LPs, flipping the narrative on its head. Dynamic Fee Strategy: The authors propose a simple yet powerful approach to adjust AMM #fee rates based on historical #trade volumes, optimising profitability and mitigating #risk. Applicable Models: Explicit formulas for AMM pricing mechanics and impermanent gains are derived and simulated for Uniswap, #Balancer, and Curve, making this a key reference for #DeFi researchers and #protocol designers. This paper advances the #microeconomic theory of DeFi and contributes to smarter, more resilient liquidity management in decentralised #markets. ✅ Published Open Access in The #JBBA:

The Impact of the Exchange Fees on Impermanent Loss of Liquidity Providers for Conservative Automated Market Makers | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By Roman Vlasov, Vladimir Gorgadze & 1 more. This article examines the effect of the exchange fees on the divergence losses of the automated market...

✍🏽 Research from Roman Vlasov, Professor Vladimir Gorgadze of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) and Artem Barger of Idea Blockchain Research Lab, Haifa, #Israel. ✅ Indexed in DOAJ and Web of Science, read by > 1 Million readers a month. 📚This paper will be featured in the *16th* issue of The JBBA (on track for Oct 2025). ➡️ Submit your articles to The JBBA:

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📍Dubai has become the first city in the MENA region to roll out a government-backed tokenized real estate platform, launched by the Dubai Land Department. The pilot platform enables fractional property ownership from as little as AED 2,000 ($545), with oversight from Central Bank of The UAE and the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority [VARA]. The initiative marks a major step toward real-world asset tokenization in one of the world’s most forward-looking crypto hubs.

XRP, RWA News: Dubai Land Department Unveils Real Estate Tokenization Platform

The new platform lets investors buy fractional ownership in Dubai property, with title deeds tokenized on the XRP Ledger network.

🚨 Blockchain is no longer an “emerging tech” — it now sits at the heart of the global digital economy, according to the DET 2025 Report by Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO). Prof Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE #Blockchain #Web3 #DigitalEconomy #Economic #Growth #Data #Crypto

The deadline for submission of papers for the *16th* issue of the JBBA is 27 June 2025. The Journal is on track for October. Submit your papers here:

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