25 June 2026

Top 100 Blockchain Companies in the UK | 2026

Explore the top 100 UK blockchain companies in 2026, ranked by funding, with investment trends and sector insights.

UK blockchain companies raised £830m across 148 deals in 2022 — the sector’s all-time peak, driven by the post-pandemic crypto wave. Annual investment has held above £490m every year since: £494m in 2023, £516m in 2024, £564m in 2025, with the first quarter of 2026 delivering £150m across 28 deals. Across all time, UK blockchain companies have raised £4.17b in equity funding tracked by Beauhurst, with 80% of that total arriving since the start of 2020.

We’ve ranked the top 100 blockchain companies by total equity raised (all data sourced from the Beauhurst platform).

An overview of the blockchain sector

Blockchain covers companies building distributed ledger infrastructure and applications — typically using cryptographic consensus mechanisms to enable trust without a central authority. UK blockchain companies span crypto custody and digital asset trading, anti-money-laundering and compliance tooling, decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols, real-world asset tokenisation, blockchain-based payments and interbank settlement, Web3 consumer applications, NFT marketplaces and digital identity, blockchain gaming, enterprise distributed ledger systems, and supply chain provenance tracking.

Beauhurst tracks 1,084 active blockchain companies in the UK, up from 169 in the final quarter of 2015 — a 541% increase over the decade and one of the highest growth rates we’ve measured in any sector. Together, these companies generated £1.99b in turnover according to latest financials and support an estimated 6,879 employees across the UK. Across all time, blockchain companies have raised £4.17b in equity funding tracked on the platform. The 2022 peak (£830m) coincided with the post-pandemic crypto wave; annual investment has since stabilised at a sustained level above £490m, with 2025 delivering £564m and the first quarter of 2026 alone bringing in £150m.

Key findings

Improbable tops the ranking with £664m raised. The London-based venture builder originally built large-scale simulation infrastructure before pivoting to AI, Web3, and metaverse ventures in 2022, and accounts for 16% of all UK blockchain equity raised to date — a dispersed top similar to LawTech.
Blockchain.com (£473m, North West) in crypto wallets and market data takes second, followed by Copper (£238m, London) in institutional digital asset custody, Fnality (£237m, London) in blockchain-based interbank payments, and Exohood Labs (£232m, London) in blockchain R&D. The top five account for 44% of all UK blockchain equity raised — a moderate concentration that reflects the sector’s dispersed structure relative to the more consolidated sectors we’ve covered.
London dominates with 79 of the top 100 — the third-highest London share we’ve measured in any sector. The South East, South West, and East of England follow with four entries each, then the North West (three), West Midlands (three), East of Scotland (two), and Wales (one). The top 100 spans eight UK regions, with Wales represented by Coincover (£31.6m) and Scotland by BetDEX Labs and Citizen Ticket.
Venture-stage businesses lead the top 100 with 44 entries, followed by seed (33), growth (16), and established (three), with two exited and two dead. The 77 early-stage companies in the top 100 give blockchain the highest combined seed and venture proportion we’ve measured in any 100-company sector — only Improbable, B2C2, and Quantum Blockchain Technologies have reached established status, reflecting how young this sector remains at the top despite a decade of growth.

Methodology

To produce this list, we identified all companies that are:

Headquartered in the UK
Operating in the ‘Blockchain’ Beauhurst industry classification
Listed as ‘Active’ on Companies House

We’ve then ranked these companies by total equity raised.

If you’re a Beauhurst subscriber, you can view this list directly in the platform and apply additional filters to refine the results.

Analysis accurate as of 17 June 2026. The table below is updated weekly to reflect the most recent data from the Beauhurst platform.

Top 100 blockchain companies in the UK

Last Updated: 15 August 2026

	Company	Region	Stage	Employees	Total Raised
1	Improbable	London	Established	500-999	£664,170,418£664.2m
2	Blockchain.com	North West	Growth	250-499	£473,285,519£473.3m
3	Copper	London	Growth	250-499	£237,842,769£237.8m
4	Fnality	London	Growth	50-99	£237,124,999£237.1m
5	Exohood Labs	London	Venture	5-9	£231,700,000£231.7m
6	Elliptic	London	Growth	100-249	£168,759,249£168.8m
7	Aztec	London	Venture	50-99	£96,506,674£96.5m
8	NexGen Cloud	London	Growth	50-99	£60,015,627£60m
9	iov42	London	Venture	25-49	£55,398,988£55.4m
10	Gensyn	London	Venture	25-49	£52,405,767£52.4m
11	BCB Group	London	Growth	100-249	£48,277,751£48.3m
12	Aave	London	Venture	10-24	£43,856,104£43.9m
13	Archax	London	Growth	50-99	£43,712,288£43.7m
14	Coadjute	London	Growth	25-49	£37,924,888£37.9m
15	Euler	London	Venture	10-24	£33,213,184£33.2m
16	Coincover	Wales	Growth	50-99	£31,621,522£31.6m
17	Circulor	London	Growth	50-99	£31,542,171£31.5m
18	BKN301	London	Venture	50-99	£31,518,617£31.5m
19	Globacap	London	Growth	25-49	£28,470,350£28.5m
20	Januus.io	London	Seed	5-9	£27,949,436£27.9m
21	Juro	London	Growth	100-249	£27,197,461£27.2m
22	Baanx	London	Venture	25-49	£25,718,248£25.7m
23	OpenTrade	North West	Venture	25-49	£24,582,898£24.6m
24	Blockhouse	South East	Seed	25-49	£21,924,894£21.9m
25	BOB	London	Venture	10-24	£21,683,142£21.7m
26	Crurated	London	Growth	50-99	£21,183,494£21.2m
27	Adhara	London	Venture	50-99	£20,826,537£20.8m
28	OneBalance	London	Venture	10-24	£18,693,705£18.7m
29	Agora	London	Venture	10-24	£18,670,905£18.7m
30	Komainu	London	Venture	50-99	£18,094,176£18.1m
31	BetDEX Labs	East of Scotland	Seed	10-24	£15,567,767£15.6m
32	Billon	London	Growth	25-49	£15,259,601£15.3m
33	Irys	London	Venture	5-9	£14,309,385£14.3m
34	ClearToken	London	Venture	25-49	£13,318,669£13.3m
35	Keyless	South West	Venture	50-99	£13,066,501£13.1m
36	Haruko	London	Seed	10-24	£12,247,068£12.2m
37	BitradeX	East of England	Seed	<5	£12,000,000£12m
38	Coinfirm	London	Exited	50-99	£11,997,638£12m
39	Acre	London	Venture	50-99	£11,500,000£11.5m
40	Clearmatics	London	Venture	10-24	£11,358,622£11.4m
41	Greengage	London	Venture	25-49	£11,355,364£11.4m
42	ArQit	London	Venture	50-99	£11,166,286£11.2m
43	Akinova	West Midlands	Venture	10-24	£10,705,252£10.7m
44	Provenance	South East	Growth	25-49	£10,253,985£10.3m
45	Astrid Intelligence PLC	London	Venture	<5	£10,000,000£10m
46	Measure Protocol	London	Venture	10-24	£9,907,271£9.9m
47	Bitpanda Custody	London	Seed	10-24	£9,788,989£9.8m
48	Cygnetise	London	Venture	10-24	£9,465,040£9.5m
49	Bridgeweave	London	Venture	10-24	£8,743,630£8.7m
50	Nuggets	London	Venture	10-24	£8,430,057£8.4m

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The future of blockchain in the UK

UK blockchain investment has settled into a sustained pattern of £490m–£830m annual funding since 2021, with 2025 delivering £564m and the first quarter of 2026 already at £150m. The sector’s headline narrative is rarely one of stability, but the funding data tells a different story than the broader crypto market noise: investment has held remarkably steady through bear cycles, exchange collapses, and tightening regulation, with active company count growing 541% over the decade to 1,084 today. Formations have moderated from a peak of 143 in 2022 to 36 in 2025, suggesting consolidation around stronger players rather than abandonment of the category.

Crypto custody, trading infrastructure, and compliance form the largest sub-cluster, with Blockchain.com (£473m), Copper (£238m), Elliptic (£169m), BCB Group (£48.3m), Archax (£43.7m), Komainu (£18.1m), Bitpanda Custody (£9.79m), and B2C2 (£4.80m) building the institutional-grade rails the sector has needed since the early crypto exchange era. Blockchain-based payments and decentralised finance form the second pillar, with Fnality (£237m) anchoring interbank settlement alongside Aave (£43.9m), Aztec (£96.5m), Euler (£33.2m), BKN301 (£31.5m), Globacap (£28.5m), Greengage (£11.4m), and Damisa Technologies (£4.75m) extending blockchain into mainstream finance and DeFi. A third cluster spans Web3 applications, enterprise blockchain, and tokenisation — Improbable (£664m), Coadjute (£35.3m), Circulor (£31.5m), iov42 (£55.4m), Gensyn (£52.4m), Provenance (£10.3m), CarbonChain (£8.02m), Applied Blockchain (£3.50m), Mattereum (£3.26m), and Encode Club (£4.00m) — applying distributed ledger technology to supply chains, AI compute, property transactions, and developer tooling.

With this in mind, it’s possible that — depending on regulatory developments around crypto custody and stablecoins, the trajectory of AI-blockchain convergence, and whether tokenisation gains traction with institutional capital — UK blockchain enters a period defined by selective consolidation among compliance, custody, and payments infrastructure rather than another speculative wave. The sector remains heavily early-stage, with 77 of the top 100 still at seed or venture stage and only three companies reaching established status; whether the next phase produces a wave of growth-stage maturations around the existing infrastructure leaders, or whether AI agent and Web3 convergence drives a new generation of venture builders following the Improbable model, will define how the sector’s £4.17b in cumulative funding translates into operating value.

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Lily Ruaah

Content Associate

With a dynamic career spanning over a decade, Lily is the Co-Founder of BlackCat Content and a professional writer. At Beauhurst, she drives the creative and analytical writing initiatives, producing compelling content that captivates and informs. Before Beauhurst, she worked as an SEO Content Writer, where she honed her skills in optimising content for search engines. Adding to her repertoire, Lily holds an MA and BA in Creative Writing, blending her passion for creativity with a keen analytical mind.

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