The United Nations Development Programme has launched a Blockchain Advisory Group, bringing major crypto foundations, infrastructure groups and industry organizations into a formal forum focu
The United Nations Development Programme has launched a Blockchain Advisory Group, bringing major crypto foundations, infrastructure groups and industry organizations into a formal forum focused on public-sector blockchain use.
The group was launched on June 3 in Paris during Proof of Talk 2026. UNDP said the forum will explore how blockchain technologies can support development challenges, digital public infrastructure and stronger public systems.
The current 26-member group includes Algorand Foundation, Arbitrum Foundation, Avalanche Foundation, Blockchain for Good Alliance, Blockchain for Impact, Cardano Foundation, Celo Foundation, Cointelegraph, Interchain Foundation, Dfinity Foundation, Dubai Blockchain Centre, Ethereum Foundation, Exponential Science Foundation, Filecoin Foundation, FLock.io, Funding the Commons, Giveth, InfStones, Kraken, NEARWeek, Nordic Blockchain Association, Partisia Blockchain Foundation, Stellar Development Foundation, Sui Foundation, The Blockchain Center Abu Dhabi and Web3 Foundation.
That mix gives UNDP access to Layer-1 networks, Ethereum scaling groups, decentralized storage communities, public-goods builders, exchange infrastructure and regional blockchain organizations. The stronger signal is not token promotion. It is that public institutions are still trying to separate practical blockchain use from speculative market cycles.
UNDP said the Blockchain Advisory Group will meet twice a year, with each convening centered on a different development theme. The priority areas include public trust and digital governance, inclusive society and legal identity, financial inclusion and digital financial services, sustainability and climate accountability, and digital labor.
Those themes fit the areas where blockchain still has a serious public-sector argument. Digital identity systems need auditability, portability and strong privacy controls. Aid delivery and public finance programs need transparent flows without exposing vulnerable users. Climate and nature-finance programs need trackable claims, cleaner reporting and stronger controls against double counting.
Financial inclusion is also becoming a more practical blockchain lane as stablecoins move closer to payment companies and remittance corridors. Stellar’s role in the UNDP group lands shortly after MoneyGram launched MGUSD on Stellar, giving the payments company a branded digital-dollar asset tied to remittance use rather than pure exchange trading.
The advisory group also raises the standard for blockchain projects that want public-sector relevance. Governments and development institutions are unlikely to adopt technology only because a network is fast, cheap or well funded. They need governance, compliance, interoperability, data protection, operational reliability and credible public-interest safeguards.
That is where the member list becomes important. Avalanche enters the group as its C-Chain shows heavier activity, with CryptoAdventure recently noting that Avalanche transactions surged nearly 7x in 2026. Cardano’s inclusion also follows its public-sector and sports-infrastructure push, including the Cardano Foundation’s recent work with Brazil’s Olympic Committee on a blockchain sports roadmap.
Sui’s participation adds another payments and privacy angle. The network has been moving toward private payment infrastructure, with confidential transfers positioned around hiding sensitive transaction details while preserving supply safeguards.
The UNDP group does not mean governments are adopting every member chain or endorsing every token. Its importance is more structural. Public institutions are building a table where blockchain foundations, infrastructure providers and development specialists can test what actually belongs in digital public infrastructure. The next proof point will be whether the group can move from advisory meetings into pilots that solve identity, payment, climate-reporting or public-finance problems without importing the weaknesses that made earlier crypto deployments hard to scale.
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