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The Swiss National Bank and the BIS don’t want to miss out on possible blockchain-powered benefits for the financial system.
The digital franc trial entailed settling large scale transactions between financial institutions through an experiment dubbed Project Helvetia.
ECB does not plan to announce whether it will proceed with digital euro proof of concept until mid-2021
Preliminary talks are underway to begin testing the e-CNY in the special administrative region of Hong Kong.
COVID-19 could force the Bank of Canada to launch a CBDC sooner than previously expected.
Macau’s gambling industry is reeling amid rumors that the city’s regulator is in talks with casino operators regarding the introduction of China’s digital yuan.
Joseph Lubin believes Eth2’s development will move quicker than many are expecting, predicting the new protocol will “absorb” Ethereum in “the not-too-distant future”
Is Spotify hinting at soon-to-come crypto features?
Despite ambitions of overtaking the dollar, China's central bank will have a hard time monitoring all the transactions involved in a CBDC, though commercial banks might lend a hand.
Russia wants to follow China’s approach of banning private stablecoins pegged to its national fiat currency.
“Project Aber” shows DLT can be used to upgrade cross-border payments, central banks say
The economic historian said that President-elect Biden’s administration should consider Bitcoin as an alternative to a “Chinese-style digital dollar.”
Nobody seems to be in a rush to digitize the euro, but that could change given increasing global competition.