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UK Tokenization Roadmap Puts £33 Billion on the Table and a Clock on the Wall
Ayanfe Fakunle
July 14, 2026
The UK government now has a written plan for moving its wholesale financial markets onto BlockchainBlockchain can make immediate digitally signed transfers of anything virtual or web-based with no substantial running costs once applications are created – contracts, money, agreements, virtual services and anything like this. Otherwise known as distributed ledger technology." href="https://www.disruptionbanking.com/Fintech Glossary/blockchain/" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>blockchain rails. On July 13, Chris Woolard , HM Treasury’s Wholesale Digital Markets Champion, delivered his first report to the Chancellor. The headline numbers are up to £33 billion in additional annual economic output and £14 billion in yearly tax revenue by 2035, if the UK builds the infrastructure fast enough.<br>The report, backed by the City of London Corporation, cites estimates from Barclays, PwC , and Boston Consulting Group that tokenized real-world assets could hit $88 trillion globally by 2035. Today’s market sits somewhere between $23 billion and $36 billion , depending on who is counting. The gap between those figures explains both the ambition and the risk.<br> JUST IN: The United Kingdom just made its move on tokenization. And #Ripple is inside the room.
HM Treasury appointed a Wholesale Digital Markets Champion to build a tokenized wholesale financial markets system for the UK. The inaugural report was published today, July 13,… https://t.co/OqYclFXmIq pic.twitter.com/Lt7x5Wrryh<br>— RippleXity (@RippleXity) July 13, 2026
DIGIT Targets First Issuance by Q1 2027<br>The roadmap sets hard deadlines. The Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT ), the pilot that would make the UK the first G7 country to issue a BlockchainBlockchain can make immediate digitally signed transfers of anything virtual or web-based with no substantial running costs once applications are created – contracts, money, agreements, virtual services and anything like this. Otherwise known as distributed ledger technology." href="https://www.disruptionbanking.com/Fintech Glossary/blockchain/" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>blockchain-native government bond, is expected to have its first issuance in Q1 2027.<br>HSBC was appointed as platform provider in February, running the pilot on its Orion platform inside the Bank of England’s Digital Securities SandboxIn the computer science world, a sandbox is a closed testing environment designed for experimenting safely with web or software projects.<br />In the fintech world, it refers to regulatory testing grounds for new business models that are not protected by current regulation, or supervised by regulatory institutions.<br />These are especially relevant for crypto and fintech, where there is a growing need to for protective frameworks." href="https://www.disruptionbanking.com/Fintech Glossary/sandbox/" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Sandbox. That SandboxIn the computer science world, a sandbox is a closed testing environment designed for experimenting safely with web or software projects.<br />In the fintech world, it refers to regulatory testing grounds for new business models that are not protected by current regulation, or supervised by regulatory institutions.<br />These are especially relevant for crypto and fintech, where there is a growing need to for protective frameworks." href="https://www.disruptionbanking.com/Fintech Glossary/sandbox/" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>sandbox, which comprises 16 firms, including Euroclear and the London Stock Exchange Group , has been approved to test tokenized issuance, trading, and settlement under regulatory supervision.<br>54 Firms, Nine Action Groups, One Repo Trade to Prove It Works<br>A cross-industry taskforce of 54 firms: BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, HSBC, Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple<!-- wp:paragraph --><br><p>Unlike other blockchains, the XRP Ledger or XRPL (used by Ripple) uses a consensus protocol, in which designated servers called validators come to an agreement on the order and outcome of XRP transactions every 3 – 5 seconds.</p><br><!-- /wp:paragraph --><br /><!-- wp:paragraph --><br><p>XRPL’s diverse list of validators helps ensure its long-term health and consensus among different market...