UK digital bond plans hinge on one missing piece: onchain cash

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That means the next step is building the surrounding market infrastructure, Patchay said. "In my view, this includes encouraging the use of compliant GBP stablecoins, which have significant potential to catalyze adoption across the market by providing that onchain settlement mechanism," she said. There are just four pound-pegged stablecoins listed by CoinGecko, and the largest by far is TGBP, with a market capitalization of $34.2 million in a global stablecoin market valued at $300 billion. For the time being, there isn't even a crypto regulatory framework in effect. That's not scheduled to take effect until October 2027 Patchay said the digital bond initiative remains significant because government bonds issued onchain could become high-quality collateral supporting a much broader range of tokenized financial markets. The U.K.'s Wholesale Digital Markets Champion report , released earlier this month and led by former Financial Conduct Authority board member Christopher Woolard, reached much the same conclusion. It projects global tokenized real-world assets could grow to $88 trillion by 2035 and warns that slow execution risks pushing liquidity overseas. The report estimates scaling the domestic market could increase the U.K.'s annual economic output by up to 33 billion pounds. Operational and legal obstacles remain a challenge. Existing U.K. settlement finality laws do not account for distributed ledgers, creating a regulatory gap where transactions could be legally reversed if a participant becomes insolvent.

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The UK is pursuing the issuance of digital bonds, but the lack of an on-chain cash settlement system acts as a hurdle. To revitalize the blockchain-based bond market, the urgent establishment of digital currency infrastructure capable of regulatory compliance is needed. Investors should closely monitor the pace of regulatory improvements regarding settlements by UK financial authorities.

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