European Financial Sovereignty: Insights from Frankfurt’s Roundtable
Last week in Frankfurt, we convened our second closed roundtable on European Financial Sovereignty. Central bankers, market infrastructure incumbents, regulators, public chain foundations, and academics gathered to pressure-test the argument in our forthcoming brief, Making Euro(pe) Competitive. The brief’s thesis is that sovereignty is a property of infrastructure rather than of instruments, and that Europe […]
Why a neutral digital infrastructure matters for Europe
The Ethereum Foundation has published “Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions”: a clear primer for those making consequential decisions about digital infrastructure: central bankers, regulators, multilateral bodies, and enterprise leaders. Original blogpost link: https://blog.ethereum.org/2026/07/01/ethereum-for-institutions Its central argument is one we share: The systems we rely on to move value, verify identity, and coordinate across borders […]
Why Digital Sovereignty pursued as control risks deepening Europe’s fragmentation
Europe is debating digital sovereignty as though the central question were who owns the infrastructure. The more consequential question is whether European firms can move across systems freely, securely, and without lock-in. In a new EDI Perspective, Konstantinos Komaitis, PhD argues that the sovereignty debate has drifted away from the oldest ambition of European integration: […]
Policy Brief: Digital Identity as the Foundation of European Sovereignty
Digital identity is the first line of defence in digital sovereignty. Without controlling how you prove who you are, the exercise of every other digital right is contingent on the governance choices of whoever controls the infrastructure.Despite significant steps in the right direction like eIDAS 2.0, the Swiss eID Act and the UK digital identity […]
Digital Identity and Sovereignty: Zurich’s Roundtable Reflections
Digital Identity and European Sovereignty: Roundtable Reflections This week, we convened a roundtable on digital identity and European sovereignty, bringing together a rare mix of perspectives. The discussion included 25 practitioners, policymakers, academics, and civil society representatives from across multiple jurisdictions, including India, Canada, Australia, Bhutan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation […]
Participation at ETHcc Cannes: Europe’s largest Ethereum conference. A genuine reflection
ETHcc Cannes: Signals from a Maturing Industry ETHcc Cannes has become more than a conference. It is a high-density convergence point where infrastructure builders, policymakers, and industry actors test ideas, narratives, and strategic direction in real time. Not just Ethereum Despite the name, ETHcc is not limited to Ethereum. It has evolved into a broader […]
From Zug to Europe: why blockchain’s next chapter won’t be written by technologists alone
The recent launch of the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research (ZIBR) offered a useful signal of where the blockchain conversation is heading. What stood out was not a new protocol, a novel scaling approach, or another application layer, but a broader shift in framing. Blockchain is no longer primarily a technology story. It is increasingly […]
2025-26 Research Agenda: Five critical areas shaping digital sovereignty
The European Decentralisation Institute is an independent, non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing decentralisation as a strategic foundation for a sovereign digital Europe -EDI mission statement How We Turn Ideas into Impact At the European Decentralisation Institute, our work starts with a simple but vital question:Where does decentralisation truly make a difference? We engage directly […]
