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Rigorous, independent analysis of blockchain-based financial infrastructure and its implications for institutional markets.

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Regulating Permissionless Blockchain: An Open Letter to the FCA (And Other Regulators)

Permissionless blockchain protocols combine open access, composability, rules-based governance, and comprehensive transparency at scale. In an open letter to the FCA, the Solana Research Institute sets out how financial regulation across seven domains can be adapted to what these systems are, rather than forcing them into the institutional forms of traditional finance.

Angus Scott of the SRI23 Jul 2026

Roundtable Recap: Integrating Digital Assets into Core Treasury Operations

Integrating Digital Assets into Core Treasury Operations: A Roundtable Recap

As major payment networks move stablecoins onto public blockchain rails, the question facing treasury and payments teams is no longer whether this infrastructure is real — it is what it takes to build it into core operations. Senior practitioners from across the institutional financial ecosystem spent two hours working through exactly that at the SRI's invitation-only roundtable in London in June 2026.

Angus Scott of the SRI14 Jul 2026

Cover: SRI Response — FCA Consultation on Cryptoasset Perimeter Guidance

SRI Response to FCA Consultation Paper on Cryptoasset Perimeter Guidance

The UK would be alone among major jurisdictions in regulating non-custodial staking and wallets as financial services. The Solana Research Institute's response to FCA CP26/13 explains why that misreads the risk.

Angus Scott of the SRI3 Jun 2026

The Loneliness of Misunderstanding: The UK's Crypto Sakoku and the FCA's 2026 Regulations

Between 1603 and 1868, the Tokugawa shogunate imposed a strict isolationist policy on Japan known as sakoku, or "closed country" The UK's financial regulators appear set to repeat the same mistake with crypto.

Angus Scott of the SRI27 May 2026

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A Financial Institution's Guide to Solana

This is a guide to Solana for people who work in Financial Institutions (“FIs”). It is intended to provide a clear-eyed description of Solana from six different perspectives that an analyst at a fInancial institution might consider if tasked with evaluating Solana as a venue for their firm’s business.

Angus Scott of the SRI30 Apr 2026