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Here’s why Algorand's price just rallied to a new multi-year high

Institutional investment, new governance features and a groundbreaking project with the government of El Salvador are just a few of the factors behind ALGO’s rally to a new all-time high.

Sep 10, 2021cointelegraph
Central bank digital currency: the future starts today

Speech by Benoît Cœuré, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, at The Eurofi Financial Forum, Ljubljana, Friday 10 September 2021.

Sep 10, 2021bisDigital Euro
Ex-IMF Top Economist Shortlisted to Lead Roxe's CBDC Pursuit

Former IMF economist Andreas Jobst will lead Roxe's CBDC Solutions built to leverage the Bitcoin hashrate.

Sep 9, 2021blockchainnewsSand Dollar
As Bitcoin debuts in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala study CBDCs

Honduras and Guatemala are studying central bank digital currencies and the value they could bring to their respective monetary systems.

Sep 9, 2021cointelegraphiQuetzal
Roxe hires ex-IMF economist to lead Bitcoin hashrate-backed CBDC project

Central bank digital currencies are the next frontier for blockchain. Roxe wants to make BTC hashrate the anchor for future CBDCs.

Sep 8, 2021cointelegraph
CBDCs: Fluency, a Fintech Offering CBDC focused DLT Platform, Acquires $1.3M at $23.5M Pre-Money Valuation

Fluency, a company that's introducing a proprietary CBDC-focused blockchain enterprise platform, has received $1.3M in capital.

Sep 8, 2021crowdfundinsider
Project Giant: Nigeria’s CBDC set for pilot rollout on Independence Day

Nigeria’s central bank digital currency will go into pilot testing on Oct. 1 with a tiered AML/KYC regime for the eNaira.

Sep 7, 2021cointelegraphDCash
Four Countries to Conduct Cross Border CBDC Payment Trials

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has joined forces with the central banks of South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia to kick start a project dubbed Dunbar aimed at testing the

Sep 3, 2021blockchainnews
Project Dunbar: international settlements using multi-CBDCs

Project Dunbar brings together the Reserve Bank of Australia, Central Bank of Malaysia, Monetary Authority of Singapore and South African Reserve Bank with the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub to test the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for international settlements. The project will also explore the development of technical prototypes using distributed ledger technologies of Corda and Quorum.

Sep 2, 2021bis
Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa launch joint CBDC pilot

The joint initiative will prototype shared DLT platforms enabling institutions to settle cross-border transactions using central bank digital currencies.

Sep 2, 2021cointelegraph
Roxe to Enable “Secondary Fiat” Currency Solutions Backed by Bitcoin (BTC) Hashrate that Help Nations with Economic Growth

Roxe to enable "secondary fiat" currency solutions backed by Bitcoin (BTC) hashrate that help nations with economic Growth.

Sep 2, 2021crowdfundinsider
BIS Innovation Hub and central banks of Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa will test CBDCs for international settlements

The Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and South African Reserve Bank will join forces to test the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for international settlements.

Sep 2, 2021bis
BIS to work on cross-border CBDC test with four central banks

Australia, Singapore, South Africa and Malaysia will help create shared DLT platforms

Sep 2, 2021centralbanking
Chinese State-Owned Banks Start Exploring Digital Yuan Use-Cases for Buying Investment Funds & Insurance Products

Two Chinese state-owned banks have begun working to fund management and insurance companies to explore the use cases of digital yuan CBDC for purchasing investment funds and insurance products onli

Sep 1, 2021blockchainnewse-CNY