UK-US ‘Tech Bridge’ Should Include Blockchain, Lobby Groups Say

UK trade groups urged the government to include blockchain technology in any deal on cooperation in technological innovation it signs with the US, ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit next week.

In a letter addressed to UK Business Secretary Peter Kyle dated Thursday and seen by Bloomberg News, a dozen groups representing the finance, technology and crypto sectors said that distributed ledger technology should be a “core strand” of what they described as “the UK-US Tech Bridge.”

Trump, who has embraced cryptoassets in his second term, is bringing a delegation of tech leaders including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s ...