Wednesday 4 November, 11:00 CET: in September, eight teams spent five days building in Stockholm. Then everyone went home. This is about what it takes to turn that into something that survives contact with the real world — funding, partners, pilots, and the people who have to say yes. Speakers announced shortly. Free. 👉 Register: https://events.kaupr.io/products/impact-onchain 💬 What’s the hardest part of keeping a project alive after the hackathon? Tell us in the comments — we put the best questions on screen during the event.

This is where the Nordic and Baltic onchain scene talks — builders, investors and the people shaping what comes next.

Five channels:

General — anything without a channel of its own.
Who’s here — introduce yourself: what you’re working on, and one thing you know something about.
Northern Lights — the scene itself. What’s happening, who’s doing what, events.
Impact Onchain — blockchain beyond finance, and what it takes to get there.
Newsletters — Onchain Growth and Onchain Build land here. Comment, or pick up a thread.

A few things worth knowing:

Mention people. Type @ and a name to pull someone into a thread. It’s the fastest way to get an answer from the person who actually knows.

Follow people, and you’ll see what they post without going looking.

Members shows everyone here and what they work on. Fill in your own profile — that’s how people find you.

Messages go member to member. You don’t have to go through us.

Put it on your phone. The QR code in the menu installs the community as an app, so notifications reach you where you actually are.

This place is yours as much as ours. Post what you’re working on, ask what you’re stuck on, and answer when you know something.

Start in Who’s here.

Blockchain beyond finance. What it’s being used for, and what it takes to get there.

This channel grew out of the Blockathon in Stockholm, where six of the eight challenges had nothing to do with money, and the winner was a way to prove that aid actually arrives. But it isn’t about that week. It’s about the work that follows it: the projects, the pilots, the partners who have to say yes, and the people building things that are meant to last.

If you’re building something, or stuck on something, this is the place. The same goes for the questions that don’t fit anywhere else — who pays for this, who verifies it, who has done it before.

Our events in this space are announced here first.

💬 What would you ask BPI? Drop it in the comments — we put the best ones on screen during our live event on 31 October.

Saturday 31 October, 15:00 CET: Bitcoinpolitisk Institutt in the Kaupr studio with secretary general Morten Søberg. Who in Norway is actually listening to bitcoin? On the anniversary of the white paper, ending with a live draw on a bitcoin block hash. In Norwegian, free.

👉 Register: https://events.kaupr.io/products/hvem-lytter-til-bitcoin-i-norge

«Momentum is building behind the scene». «We are still on the adoption curve». Torbjørn Bull Jenssen from K33 at the VNTR investor event in Oslo, during a low Crypto trading market.

Do you agree we're still early on the adoption curve, or does this market tell a different story?

https://www.kaupr.io/en/news/u-proof-wins-blockathon-with-proof-that-aid-arrives

The team behind U-proof has won Blockathon in Stockholm. The solution lets those who receive aid take the photo that proves the help arrives, while a fingerprint of the photo is registered on the blockchain.

https://www.kaupr.io/en/news/three-blockathon-finalists-in-stockholm-aim-to-verify-what-is-real

Three teams reached the Blockathon Stockholm final with answers to problems set by AIMS-Management, the Swedish Red Cross and UNICEF. All use blockchain to verify that a creator approved content, that a message is genuine and that aid was delivered.

https://www.kaupr.io/en/news/blockchain-on-the-tech-scene-and-on-the-agenda-in-stockholm

Tokenisation at Blockchain Sweden and the Blockathon hackathon final put blockchain on the agenda at Nordic Tech Week in Stockholm this week. The industry discussed going from pilot to production, and new solutions took the stage in Kungsträdgården.

One company holds the licence, the liquidity or the infrastructure. Another holds the customer. That division of labour now runs through the Nordic crypto market in several forms, and this week's edition follows it.

The edition also has the thesis that names the model and sets out why the buyers hesitate.

https://events.kaupr.io/products/how-to-invest-in-the-tokenization-trends

How to invest in the tokenization trends. Exposure to the platforms behind them — through ETPs. A joint event by Kaupr and Virtune. Live online, Wednesday 7 October, 11:00–12:30 CET. Free.

This is where the Nordic and Baltic onchain scene talks. What’s happening, who’s doing what, and the events — ours and everyone else’s. Post what you’re going to, what you saw, who you met. Photos from the room are welcome. If you’re wondering whether something is worth attending, ask here — someone will have been. The full calendar lives in Kaupr Events, our event newsletter: every onchain event across the Nordics and Baltics, with recordings of what you missed. Our own events open for registration there first. 👉 https://events.kaupr.io/

CEO Gustav Buder: Bitcoin via Kvarn X, gold via Kvarn Metals, account in a bank structure. Goobit is the platform, while its own MiCA application is still under appeal.

Is this how more crypto savings products will be built in the Nordics?

Hi everyone - Anna here. I work at the intersection of regulation, economics and the practical experience of founders. I’m particularly interested in what happens when regulation creates costs and uncertainty that are not obvious from the rules themselves. With the recent complaints from crypto companies to the Danish Ombudsman, this feels especially relevant. In my recent article #7, I look at the problem from the founder’s side, including MiCA, and try to make one thing clearer: where the real burden of regulation falls, and what founders can do when the formal rules and the practical reality diverge. That’s one thing I tend to look at differently: not just whether a regulation is formally correct, but who actually carries its economic cost. Looking forward to learning from the community and contributing where I can. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7486028428601794560/

That's a wrap on Pre-event 1 — the full recording is up. Click the article below to watch.

Did you watch? What stuck with you? And what do you want us to dig deeper into at Pre-event 2?

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I think I've met a few of you before. I build private AI for companies and sovereign on-prem platforms.

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Blockchain beyond finance, with Fati Hakim and several others.

Got a question for the panel? Leave it as a comment here, and we'll pick it up.

Someone shared with me that they thought it was hard to start sharing without knowing who's really here. I agree, also on the suggestion of a member directory, which I have brought to the team in Beehiiv, which has created this content and community platform.

Waiting for any improvements, the best way at the moment would then be to use the Who's here channel to tell something about yourself. And of course, also a hi can work!

Building from zero on Saturday, we are now 20 members, mostly from Sweden and Norway at the moment.

Hi everyone, just wanted to say hello. I’m looking forward to enrich this community with my perspectives and energy.

The first virtual pre-event ahead of Blockathon Stockholm

Follow it as it happens — there's a channel in Onchain Community where everything gets shared and anyone can ask or post.

www.kaupr.ioGustav Buder leaves Bybit to lead Goobit and BTCXBybit's Nordic lead Gustav Buder becomes CEO of Goobit, which runs Sweden's first bitcoin exchange BTCX and has been denied a MiCA licence.

Breaking news Friday afternoon.

We're opening a space, Onchain Community, where readers can talk to each other, not just read.

Start in Who's here — I've gone first.

Hi everyone — Morten here.

I run Kaupr, which means I write, edit, produce and press publish, mostly on my own. Before this I spent more than 30 years in communications and consulting, including a stretch as a financial journalist. Right now I'm covering onchain finance across the Nordics and Baltics, and building the place where you can follow it.

One thing you might not know: I sing bass in a mixed choir. Rhythmic stuff — pop, jazz, even hip-hop.

Your turn.

Two of the Nordics' best-known crypto exchanges have put numbers on the table. Safello reported its second quarter on Friday; Firi's 2025 accounts became known on Monday. Both point at the licence — Safello as the position it now holds, Firi as what made last year expensive.

Further down in this issue: events worth your time this autumn, from Helsinki to Riga, and new pieces from Onchain Build.

Two things happened this week, and they point in opposite directions. A Norwegian company took over the running of a business on another continent. A Swiss company named the Nordics as the first market for its European entity.

Different companies, different regulatory realities, same movement: the Nordic industry is no longer bounded by the Nordics, in either direction.