News and insight on onchain finance in Sweden — crypto exchanges, fintech, payment services, securities tokenisation and banks.We follow crypto, digital assets, blockchain, stablecoins and tokenisation in the Swedish market.
Kaupr and Virtune explain how investors can gain exposure to tokenisation through regulated ETPs on ordinary trading venues.
54 percent of affluent Swedes hold crypto. Yet Sweden is the most cautious of seven markets in CoinShares' new survey.
Done.ai launches buy now, pay later on business invoices in Finago. The supplier is paid at once, the buyer can pay over up to 36 months.
CoinShares surveyed 2,230 affluent investors in seven countries. Two in three hold crypto, and only six percent invest for short-term gains.
Bitcoin is up more than 40 percent since June. Marco Poblete at Bitwise says the recovery only convinces once buyers stay through a difficult week.
GreenMerc cuts costs by SEK 4.8 million a year, Northcrypto is profitable and the money is directed towards the banking product Trijo One.
AllUnity launches dollar stablecoin USDAU under MiCA. Its business account also gains exchange between dollars, euros, francs and Swedish kronor.
AI company Modal Labs, led by Swede Erik Bernhardsson, is close to a US$750 million funding round that values it at US$15.75 billion.
Sweden's Safello is testing a way for companies without a crypto business to offer customers crypto purchases under Safello's MiCA licence.
Crypto broker Coinmotion has chosen K33 as its partner for executing larger trades, in a partnership between two MiCA-licensed Nordic companies.
Neither ESMA nor Sweden's Finansinspektionen will say whether crypto distribution under your own brand requires a MiCA licence.
GreenMerc withdraws the MiCA appeal for Ijort Invest and uses Finnish Northcrypto's licence to serve Swedish Trijo customers.
Hilbert Finance takes in stablecoins from onchain depositors and puts the money into its loan book, through a partnership with Ember Protocol.
Goobit CEO Gustav Buder explains how the Futureproof savings platform is put together, and who customers trade with.
Kvarn Capital says the partner model with Sweden's Goobit falls outside both the agency ban and the outsourcing rules in MiCA.
Another Bybit executive has moved to Goobit. David Leeb confirms he is working on the new Futureproof venture.
Firi launches in Sweden this week, entering a market where about 1.1 million already own crypto and competition is intensifying.
Finland's Kvarn Capital lets Nordic companies sell crypto services on its MiCA licence. Goobit is the first customer to be made public.
Goobit raises SEK 25.1 million for its Futureproof savings platform. Nine million of it is net cash.
Goobit launches the Futureproof savings platform on Finnish Kvarn Capital's MiCA licence, after its own refusal from Finansinspektionen.
Valuno converts creditor claims into shares without raising new capital. One subscriber is owned by the chair of the board.
U-proof won Blockathon in Stockholm with a solution in which aid recipients themselves document that the help arrives.
Sander Andersen of H100 Group says bitcoin companies below one billion dollars must buy each other — standing still is the biggest risk.
Three of twelve finalists in the EBC12 Startup Battle in Barcelona are Nordic or Baltic. All three build infrastructure for other companies.
Three Blockathon Stockholm finalists use blockchain to verify creators' content, Red Cross crisis messages and UNICEF aid delivery.
Goobit turns BTCX from counterparty into broker, citing MiCA. Reported revenue will be far lower, but gross profit is unaffected.
Tokenisation at Blockchain Sweden and the Blockathon hackathon final put blockchain on the agenda in Stockholm this week.
Swedish parties back blockchain broadly but are warier of Swedish stablecoins, Blockchain Sweden's election survey shows.
Greenbridge becomes a liquidity provider in Sweden's Centiglobe Connect, letting banks exchange tokenised deposits for ordinary money.
Sweden's BTC AB will redeem B shares at 25 to 30 per cent below net asset value to raise bitcoin per share, without selling bitcoin.
Valuno group company QB Europe lost its appeal over the MiCA refusal in Sweden. Operations continue through licensed partners.
Christopher Kock, CEO of Virtune, believes the crypto market has bottomed out, driven by expectations of lower long-term rates in the US.
Stack by me wants to raise up to 20 million on Republic Europe after a loss of NOK 10.7 million and halved revenues in 2025.
Sweden's tax agency demands SEK 48.1m from Valuno Group, arguing Gibraltar profit is taxable in Sweden. The company is appealing.
Sweden's Hilbert Group has rebuilt itself from asset manager into a broader platform, and the half-year loss stems largely from that rebuild.
Kaupr Weekly looks at what became of the fifteen Nordic companies that put bitcoin on the balance sheet, after the premium disappeared.
K33's revenue more than halved in the second quarter. It has won a MiCA licence and taken it into Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Germany.
K33 raises its effective bitcoin exposure by up to 92 bitcoin through an option agreement at Canadian company Sixty Six Capital.
Only two of eight themes concern finance when the FirstBlock-athon hackathon gathers developers in Stockholm in September.