The European Commission announced today in a press release the launch of The Observatory and Blockchain Forum "Unite" the economy around Blockchain.

In the most practical step to exploit the promise of technology so far for the EU, the project will bring together various sectors – including regulators and the European Commissioner at the EU. The digital economy and society, Mariya Ivanova Gabriel, was quoted in the official press release, claiming that the project would become "one of the most comprehensive blockchain repositories in the world" (19459005). experience and expertise. "

" It will create an open forum for Blockchain technologists, innovators, citizens, industry stakeholders, public authorities, regulators " It continued

The Observatory and the EU Blockchain Forum launched today should become one of the world's most comprehensive repositories of information. Blockchain expertise. EUBlockchain pic.twitter.com/2yMkcHgL88 – European Commission (@EU_Commission) 1 February 2018

The 28-member bloc has actively sought to understand how it can get involved in Blockchain and promote it to citizens for several years. A research published by the European Parliament in 2017 asserted that Blockchain "would change the lives" of EU residents, with however focused efforts on areas such as data and identity rather than on the economic revisions

at the same time, the official treatment of cryptocurrency itself in the EU remains much more cautious – plans to end anonymous transactions on digital wallets and exchanges were approved in December of last year.