How Stellar Will Host Ukraine’s CBDC Pilot Test With Tascombank

How Stellar Will Host Ukraine’s CBDC Pilot Test With Tascombank

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has been working with the Ukrainian government on their national Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for a while. The collaboration has started to produce results as the SDF, Bitt, and TASCOMBANK recently deployed a pilot project for the electronic hryvnia on this network. Related Reading | An Introduction To Stellar And XLM: Mission, Control, And Consensus Per a press release, the partners will test the CBDC’s use cases and its programmable capabilities. These will be leveraged to pay employees at a company called Diia, and to perform....


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