Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is the UK government department responsible for diplomacy, development, consular work, and sanctions policy, with a growing focus on cryptocurrency-related enforcement. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's Twitter Score is 7.4 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #120,772 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office publishes and maintains the UK Sanctions List, which identifies individuals and entities designated under UK sanctions regulations. UK financial-sanctions guidance issued by the department explicitly covers cryptoassets and identifies cryptoasset exchange providers and custodian wallet providers as firms subject to those restrictions. On 20 August 2025, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced sanctions targeting Russia-linked sanctions-circumvention networks, naming the Grinex and Meer cryptocurrency exchanges as well as infrastructure connected to the rouble-backed A7A5 token. A further sanctions package announced on 26 May 2026 targeted additional cryptocurrency exchanges and the A7 network, which the UK government alleges has been used by Russia to evade existing restrictions.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has also engaged with broader crypto-related security concerns at the international level. In a UK-Australia ministerial statement dated 25 July 2025, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office expressed concern about DPRK cryptocurrency theft being used to fund prohibited weapons programs and committed to ongoing international sanctions-monitoring cooperation. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's account has published 51,011 posts and has 1,064,289 followers as of October 2026 on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 61 accounts, with 169 total mentions.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's portfolio includes Chatham House.
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