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Digital Euro Association partners with Payment and Financial Technologies Development Center of the National Bank of Kazakhstan

Digital Euro Association partners with Payment and Financial Technologies Development Center of the National Bank of Kazakhstan

The Digital Euro Association (DEA) is delighted to announce its partnership with the Payment and Financial Technologies Development Center of NBK (PFTDC). The PFTDC has been running the Digital Tenge pilot project since 2021 in order to test a tokenized form of the digital tenge for u …

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Stablecoin and CBDC News Digest, August 2022

Stablecoin and CBDC News Digest, August 2022

The world of digital money moves quickly and is time consuming to keep up to date with. To keep you up to speed with the most important pieces of news that have lasting implications especially for stablecoins and CBDCs, the monthly Stablecoin and CBDC News Digest takes care of it for …

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A successful implementation of a Digital Euro depends on solving the “CBDC Design Trilemma”

A successful implementation of a Digital Euro depends on solving the “CBDC Design Trilemma”

Blockchain can be defined as a system that sometimes sacrifices performance for the sake of increased security and decentralisation (Nakamoto, 2008). To become a useful retail CBDC, any chosen digital euro implementation should perform as fast as other competing payment systems such a …

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Stablecoins: An introduction and recommendations for the EU

Stablecoins: An introduction and recommendations for the EU

Since the Digital Euro Association’s Private Digital Euro Working Group started writing their paper at the beginning of 2022, the world of stablecoins has changed more dramatically than any of us could have imagined.

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Stablecoin and CBDC News Digest, July 2022

Stablecoin and CBDC News Digest, July 2022

The world of digital money moves quickly and is time consuming to keep up to date with. To keep you up to speed with the most important pieces of news that have lasting implications especially for stablecoins and CBDCs, the monthly Stablecoin and CBDC News Digest takes care of it for …

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OPINION – The Digital Yuan as a tool for Cross-Border Payments

OPINION – The Digital Yuan as a tool for Cross-Border Payments

In early January, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) launched the Digital Yuan wallet apps for Android and iOS.

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Ahead of the digital euro: Public Digital Euro Working Group Recommendations

Ahead of the digital euro: Public Digital Euro Working Group Recommendations

Which primary characteristics must a digital euro possess to guarantee being a serious alternative to physical money in the future? The answer to this question is provided by systematically reviewing three different levels of analysis. First, the various design dimensions of a digital …

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Event Summary: Fungibility & Interoperability in the Digital Money Ecosystem

Event Summary: Fungibility & Interoperability in the Digital Money Ecosystem

In this panel in collaboration with the Digital Pound Foundation, the panelists discussed topics around the concepts of fungibility and interoperability, how they interrelate and why they are important considerations for the future of new forms of digital money. For those who missed t …

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Hyperledger Global Forum 2022

Hyperledger Global Forum 2022

Join us at the upcoming Hyperledger Global Forum. This global forum is the biggest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community. It is a unique opportunity for contributors, members, service providers and enterprise end users from around the world to meet, align, plan and hack …

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Central bank digital currency (CBDC) – why go slow

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) – why go slow

Written by Amnon Samid and Professor Gideon Samid National currency is a foundational element in society. A switch from material coins and banknotes, and their counting balance to a novel cyber entity comprised of a string of bits, is a big move with a lot of promise, alas facing a my …

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