Adam Smith Institute is a UK free-market policy think tank co-founded by Madsen Pirie and Eamonn Butler that publishes research and commentary on markets, liberty, and digital assets. Adam Smith Institute's Twitter Score is 15 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #65,729 among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Adam Smith Institute was co-founded by Madsen Pirie and Eamonn Butler as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organisation promoting free-market ideas. Operating since 2008, the institute has built a body of work spanning economic policy, regulatory reform, and, more recently, digital asset markets.
Adam Smith Institute has engaged substantively with crypto policy across several fronts. It has published commentary supporting Bitcoin as a censorship-resistant payment mechanism and a check on state power, and has analysed competition between Bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies including Ethereum and smart-contract protocols. Following the Terra/Luna collapse, the institute published commentary praising open markets for enabling experimentation. In January 2025, it published analysis on the implications of the Trump administration for digital assets in the UK, advocating for regulatory reforms. In October 2025, its Future Markets Policy Unit released analysis covering crypto regulation, tokenised market infrastructure, stablecoins, and custody.
Adam Smith Institute has published 23,998 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 42 accounts a total of 400 times.
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