There is a growing belief that blockchain technologies constitute a revolutionary innovation in how we transfer value electronically. Blockchain technologies could obviate the need for the intermediary, who often exploits its information asymmetry advantage to act in self-interested and extractive, inefficient, or corrupt ways. Though popular examples of blockchain-based information symmetry are back-end processes in Finance and provenance tracking along a value chain as well as the Bitcoin network, where blockchain does not mitigate information asymmetry is in the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of a new cryptocurrency. Namely, there is definitive asymmetry about what the investor knows about the issuer of the cryptocurrency and, more importantly, what the issuer will do with the proceeds of the ICO. This inability or unwillingness to provide transparency to the operations of the issuer has been problematic, as many investors have bought cryptocurrencies from fraudulent issuers. This problem also motivates an interesting line of research enquiry: how integrated and tightly coupled blockchains can address the two negative effects of information asymmetry — adverse selection and moral hazard. The precept for this proposed research program for our blockchain.lab is this: By coupling a blockchain for Operations (e.g. for provenance tracking) that recognizes and penalizes moral hazard behaviour with a blockchain for Financing (e.g. for ICO’s) that offers contingent actions to lessen the effect of adverse selection, heightened productivity and effective allocation of resources are possible. Specifically, we will focus on projects for technological enablement towards this precept. These projects are: a) Semantic and data interoperability between, say operations-focused and financing-focused blockchains; b) Consensus mechanisms for blockchain interoperability; c) Agent-based modelling of integrated operations and financing blockchains; d) Refinement of a domain-independent traceability ontology for provenance checking across a value chain; and e) Smart contracts for investment instruments that are consistent to the research precept — security tokens.