{"id":629160,"date":"2026-07-14T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/solana-community-lead-enters-uk-by-election-with-onchain-transparency-pitch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:53:46","slug":"solana-community-lead-enters-uk-by-election-with-onchain-transparency-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/solana-community-lead-enters-uk-by-election-with-onchain-transparency-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana community lead enters UK by-election with onchain transparency pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solana<\/p>\n

Superteam UK lead Stephen \u201cCap\u201d Newnham is taking on Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election with pledges on pension reform and onchain transparency.<\/p>\n

Stephen \u201cCap\u201d Newnham, who leads the Solana community group Superteam UK, said he will run as an independent candidate in the Aug. 13 parliamentary by-election in Clacton against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Newnham outlined<\/a> five campaign pledges, including support for local entrepreneurs, digital and artificial intelligence education, financial literacy in schools and onchain political transparency. He announced<\/a> his intention to stand as an independent candidate on July 9.<\/p>\n

Newnham\u2019s fourth pledge, \u201cYou should own your pension,\u201d argues that existing structures like self-invested personal pensions and small self-administered schemes allow savers to choose where their assets are held. He also pledged full transparency, with donations and meetings published in plain English and onchain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Superteam UK lead Stephen \u201cCap\u201d Newnham is taking on Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election with pledges on pension reform and onchain transparency. Stephen \u201cCap\u201d Newnham, who leads the Solana community group Superteam UK, said he will run as an independent candidate in the Aug. 13 parliamentary by-election in Clacton against Reform UK leader Nigel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}