🌐 An official language in 29 countries, with ~76 million native speakers and ~235 million daily users worldwide, BBA's plain-language research infographics are available in #FRENCH.

📌 JBBA is the world’s first and only blockchain research journal to produce plain-language research summaries and infographics in multiple languages including: #Chinese, #Italian, #German, #Hindi, #Spanish, #Portuguese, #French, and #Turkish - helping policymakers, regulators, and decision-makers access evidence without the jargon, worldwide.

🌍 As a fully open-access journal, JBBA is read across 150+ countries, and accessible to ~800,000+ monthly readers via DOAJ, and ~150,000 researchers daily via Web of Science.

🙌🏼 Shout-out to the team at the BBA's Centre for Evidence-Based Blockchain (#CEBB) for helping design the French version of JBBA infographics.

To access the research summaries, free and open access, visit:

https://britishblockchainassociation.org/cebb/

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Stablecoins Slash Remittance Fees by 90%

Prof. Dr @nprofile1q... MBE FBBA

#Stablecoins #Commonwealth #Blockchain #BBA

🚨 Quite unexpectedly, ISC2026 Early Bird tickets are nearly sold out.

Early Bird may end before the planned 16 January deadline due to demand.

➡️ Register now:

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🌐 Bitcoin as “Digital gold” is only half the story:

Bitcoin is also “digital mining economics" - the right lens isn’t just scarcity, but how miners extract this digital gold under scarcity, open democracy, neutrality, and trust-less cooperation.

🇺🇸 Research from Bridgewater State University, USA.

#Bitcoin

🇯🇵JBBA has been indexed in Osaka University Library of #Japan, the largest national university of Japan by undergraduate enrollment.

With more than 23,000 students, 🇯🇵 Osaka University is the most prestigious research institution in Japan, producing many Nobel Laureates including Hideki Yukawa, Osamu Tezuka, Lasker Award winner Hidesaburō Hanafusa, author Ryōtarō Shiba, and discoverer of regulatory T cells Shimon Sakaguchi.

#JBBA #Blockchain

🇺🇸 Library of Congress has featured the BBA in the "FinTech Research Guide" under the Trade Association section.

🌐 The JBBA is also now indexed onsite at the Library of Congress through Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ.

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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education's Digital Library Research Bank has indexed the #JBBA.

One week left to apply to be part of the stablecoins cohort within Financial Conduct Authority's Regulatory Sandbox – The deadline is Sunday 18 January 2026 at 23.59pm.

Innovative companies can test their stablecoin products and services under the UK's evolving regulatory regime. They will also have the opportunity to help inform the future regime for Stablecoins in the UK.

https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/innovation/regulatory-sandbox/stablecoins-cohort

➡️ BBA's Response to FCA's Stablecoin Consultation:

https://lnkd.in/eFHP5z7c

➡️ BBA's Response to FCA's Crypto Consultation:

https://britishblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FCA-DP-Cryptoassets-2025-BBA-1-2.pdf

➡️ BBA's Response to HM Treasury's Crypto Consultation:

https://britishblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BBA-Response-to-HM-Treasury-DSI-Cryptoassets-FINAL.pdf

🇬🇧 UK MPs Call for Stronger Action on Crypto Sanctions Evasion:

🎤 During a House of Commons debate on human rights abuses and Magnitsky sanctions, Labour MP Tan Dhesi , Chair of the Defence Select Committee, warned that sanctioned individuals are increasingly using cryptocurrencies to evade UK authorities. He urged greater international coordination and the use of advanced technology to tackle crypto-enabled sanctions breaches.

🎤 Responding for the government, Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said the National Crime Agency has helped seize $24 million and more than €2.6 million from Russian-linked money laundering networks, alongside over £25 million in cash and crypto and more than 128 arrests.

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The BBA is the UK's industry body on Blockchain and Digital Assets, and the Secretariat of APPG on Blockchain Technologies.

#Crypto #Blockchain

🌐 Can we govern public sector projects using DAOs governance design toolkit?

This JBBA peer-reviewed paper takes a very real-world problem (a Swiss university’s community-led grant allocation) and asks: what can we borrow from DAO governance to make community decisions more fair, transparent, and inclusive — without adding admin burden?

📍Key highlights from the paper:

1) It starts with an uncomfortable truth:

Even DAOs struggle with fairness — governance often centralises (e.g., small groups dominating voting power) and participation can be extremely low.

2) A useful governance lens:

The authors map governance into 4 stages: submission → selection → voting → execution, then compare 7 DAO governance models across these stages (e.g., token staking, reputation, quadratic mechanisms, timelocks, rage-quit style dissent).

3) The core contribution: 8 “DAO-inspired” improvements for community grant allocation (designed and iterated with stakeholders via Action Design Research):

• Blinded proposals to reduce reputational/network bias

• More transparent outcomes (incl. clearer scoring and documentation)

• Feedback loops / community dialogue before voting

• Bonus vote mechanism (inspired by futarchy-style incentives) to reward informed voting

• Flexible voting (votes distributed across proposals, not just a simple pick-list)

• “Raise concerns” phase so dissent is heard before final decisions

• Project presentation event at the end (accountability + learning)

• Continuous community discussion channel to keep improving the process over time

4) Practicality check:

The improvements were evaluated with the programme team — some mechanisms were adopted immediately, others were adapted due to feasibility constraints (e.g., qualitative feedback to every rejected proposal wasn’t scalable; some feedback loops needed extra tooling).

✅ Why this matters (beyond Web3):

This is a blueprint for designing governance as infrastructure, whether you’re allocating grants, running an association, governing a standards body, or coordinating a digital community.

📄 Open access in The JBBA: “Designing Community Governance – Learnings from DAOs” (Lustenberger, Küng, Florian Spychiger, 2025) of ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

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JBBA Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr @nprofile1q... MBE FBBA

#DAO #Governance #Web3 #PublicSectorInnovation #ResearchFunding #EvidenceBasedPolicy #JBBA

🇮🇹 New JBBA citation from University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

➡️ Original JBBA paper cited here:

'Web 2 vs. Web 3 Paths to the Metaverse: Who Is Leading? Who Should Lead?' By BBA Fellow Mary Lacity, and Le （Carol） Kuai , Jeff Mullins:

https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/87838

#JBBA #citation

🇪🇸 🇵🇹 New JBBA citation from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain, and University of Lisbon Portugal.

➡️ Original JBBA paper cited here:

'A Blockchain Infrastructure for Transportation in Low Income Country Cities, and Beyond':

https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/10235

#JBBA #citation