CBDCs will not impact private stablecoin market, says Tether CTO

CBDCs will not impact private stablecoin market, says Tether CTO

Tether chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino claimed CBDCs would primarily replace the age-old payment systems and utilize private blockchain as a modern and cost-controlled tech infrastructure. Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer at Tether, believes that the growing developments around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) globally wouldn’t really impact the role of private stablecoins.Ardoino shared his two cents in a Twitter thread on the growing discussion around CBDCs and what their role could be in the current payment system. He said CBDCs would only replace the age-old....


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