Crunchfish selected to participate in the Digital Pound Lab
Crunchfish has been selected by the Bank of England to participate in the Digital Pound Lab, an experimental initiative established to support hands-on exploration of potential digital pound use cases, where selected organizations experiment and develop potential digital pound products and services using the Lab's capabilities and infrastructure.
The Bank of England's Digital Pound Lab provides a simulated environment where participating organizations can experiment with potential capabilities of a digital pound, including APIs, wallets and smart contract functionality.
The Digital Pound Lab aims to:
- collaborating with industry to test use cases that will contribute to the assessment of whether to build a digital pound;
- collaborating with industry to understand potential business models for Payment Interface Providers (PIPs) and External Service Interface Providers (ESIPs);
- assessing the requirements for a digital pound to provide a platform for innovation; and
- contributing to the Bank's emerging thinking on digital pound technology and digital currency technology more generally.
At the conclusion of the Digital Pound Lab initiative, participants may be invited to present their work at a showcase event, later in the year.
Crunchfish's participation will focus on exploring use cases related to resilient digital payments and offline transaction functionality within the Digital Pound Lab's technical framework. The work will be conducted as a proof of concept and is intended to contribute insights to the ongoing assessment of whether a digital pound could be built in the future.
Crunchfish will develop solutions and share findings with the Digital Pound Lab over a period of approximately three months.
"We are pleased to have been invited to participate in the Digital Pound Lab. The lab provides a valuable opportunity to explore how our resilient and offline-capable payment functionality could contribute to future Digital Pound use cases," says Joachim Samuelsson, Crunchfish's CEO.
For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com
This information was provided by the above for publication on 3rd February 2026 at 08:30 CET.
Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.
About Crunchfish - crunchfish.com
Crunchfish is a deep fintech company providing a Digital Cash solution enabling offline payments. The solution is designed for banks, payment services, and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Crunchfish Digital Cash augments payment systems by offering resilience in case of lost internet connections or server failures. The company, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and a subsidiary in India, is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016.