Students will build AI/ML models to detect non-compliant activity on the XRP Ledger at a London hackathon on 24 October 2026.

UK CBT highlights a book edited by Paolo Tasca, Nikhil Vadgama and Jiahua Xu on distributed ledgers and the movement of value.

A jointly hosted evening examined UK FCA admission requirements, disclosure standards and the prospects for international regulatory convergence.

Ripple’s UDAX Demo Day showcased 11 XRPL startups spanning payments, stablecoins, DeFi and financial infrastructure.

UKFin+ announced completion of TRACE, a collaborative pilot involving UCL researchers, UK CBT and ZEROID LABS.

UK CBT was announced as a participant in a 23 September programme connecting blockchain research with real-asset adoption.

UK CBT sponsored CRC2026 in Santiago, with Walter Hernandez joining a senior policy panel on stablecoins and Aayush Ladda presenting research on Bitcoin’s carbon footprint.

UK CBT and the Oxford Blockchain Society host XRPL Day at the University of Oxford, combining technical education, practical activity and networking.

UK CBT researchers present blockchain, AI, market and privacy research across NUS Computing and the Nanyang Blockchain Conference in Singapore.

A UK CBT student event at UCL explores global payments, tokenisation, AI agents and practical routes for building on the XRP Ledger.

Walter J. Hernandez presents DLT-Corpus and LedgerBERT at KDD 2026 in Jeju, sharing open research infrastructure for distributed-ledger studies.

Ripple’s 2026 UBRI Research Highlights Report features two UK CBT studies on DeFi market integrity and the resource efficiency of distributed ledgers.

Walter J. Hernandez presents an agentic research proposal at the UCL Computer Science Innovation Challenge, building on UK CBT’s DLT-Corpus work.

UK CBT joins Ripple’s Summer Soirée in London, strengthening connections across the digital-assets community and the UBRI network.

An executive programme in development addresses emerging technologies, digital finance, governance and regulation.

UK CBT supports a two-week live-market quantitative competition culminating in London, connecting traders, developers, students and fintech builders.

UK CBT contributes two sessions to the UCL School of Management KAIST Digital Finance MBA Study Tour, linking blockchain, finance and large language models.

UK CBT researchers contribute to the two-day XRPL Blockchain Research Summit in Paris, spanning infrastructure, regulation and blockchain research.