Current Position & Biography
Helen Disney is the founder and chief executive of Unblocked, a business focused on blockchain education, communications and events. Unblocked's own biography records its founding in 2017. A March 2026 report from law firm Edwin Coe also identifies her as its CEO, while the Stablecoins Unblocked event archive lists the same role. Her professional focus is the United Kingdom, with international conference and industry connections.
Disney's direct cryptocurrency experience predates Unblocked. Her published company biography records outreach work at the Bitcoin Foundation during 2014–2015 and the creation of Blockchain Intelligence, a platform for industry news, networking and conferences. Her contribution is primarily industry education and convening, rather than authorship of a blockchain protocol or operation of a cryptocurrency exchange.
Notable Contributions
Unblocked develops educational events and content for business audiences seeking to understand blockchain applications. Its stated activities include workshops, interviews and communications work for technology businesses. This combines public education with commercial communications, a distinction relevant when evaluating material produced for clients.
Stablecoins Unblocked provides a concrete example of current digital-asset relevance. Its 2025 archive identifies Disney as CEO of Unblocked and documents a programme about stablecoins, payments and global trade. The current event site reports that the 2026 conference took place and lists sessions on institutional uses, geopolitical effects, adoption, non-US-dollar stablecoins and legal developments. Its advertised June 2027 date is a future plan, not an event already delivered.
In March 2026, Edwin Coe reported on a digital-assets roundtable hosted by its partner Laura Clatworthy alongside Disney and moderated by Jonny Fry. The discussion addressed data trusts and tokenisation. That source supports her participation in a practical legal and commercial discussion; it does not establish that she created the legal structures or technical systems described by other speakers.
Global Thinkers Forum's profile also identifies Disney as a director and board member of The Realization Group and a co-founder of the British Blockchain and Frontier Technologies Association. These affiliations place her work within a broader network of financial-technology communications and industry education.
Why Katharos Is Following Them
Disney is relevant to how cryptocurrency and blockchain concepts reach business audiences and policy discussions. Her events provide a place to examine how claims about stablecoins, tokenisation and adoption are explained outside specialist developer communities. Katharos follows this work as an industry-education contribution, without treating an event programme as proof that a technology has achieved its promised outcomes.
Areas to Follow
Follow the substance of stablecoin and tokenisation programmes, distinctions between live deployments and proposed use cases, and the clarity of explanations about legal, operational and consumer risks. The treatment of non-dollar stablecoins and institutional payment workflows is particularly relevant to cross-border digital finance.
Reporting Scope
Coverage should distinguish Disney's own statements from those of speakers, sponsors and clients. Company descriptions and event summaries should be attributed to their sources. Public education, commercial promotion and formal policy decisions are different activities and should be reported separately. Inclusion is not an endorsement of any token, provider or investment.
Katharos Category
Community, Media & Education
Photo Credit
Sidko, Helen Disney, September 19, 2016 (photograph metadata). CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized. Original photograph: Source 7; license: Source 8.