‘Atomic Settlement’ — New York Fed Completes First Phase of Digital Dollar Ex...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has published findings stemming from an experiment dubbed “Project Cedar,” a protocol that uses a wholesale digital dollar in order to improve financial transactions. Michelle Neal, head of the bank’s Markets Group remarked on Friday that the research “indicated that settlement could occur in fewer than 10 seconds on average and that horizontal scaling was possible.” Fed’s New York Branch Releases Digital Dollar Findings Associated With Project Cedar On Nov. 4, 2022, the Federal Reserve’s New York branch published a report....
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In its New York subsidiary, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) completed the first test of Project Cedar, the initiative testing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The New York Innovation Center (NYIC) carried out this first phase and highlighted the potential for digital assets and blockchain technology to improve legacy payment rails. Related Reading: Twitter […]
Atomic swaps are a peer-to-peer, trustless method of exchanging coins on different blockchains. In essence, atomic swaps allow you to exchange, for example, bitcoin with litecoin, while avoiding the need to trust an exchange or any other third party. Further Reading: What Is Bitcoin? Atomic swaps ...
It is well-known that Bitcoin’s upcoming lightning network promises instant confirmations and low fees. What is not as well-known is that this highly anticipated scaling layer is actually not limited to Bitcoin. The very same peer-to-peer protocol can potentially be extended to, and made interoperable with, many altcoins. This could allow for trustless altcoin payment processors, decentralized altcoin exchanges and perhaps even cheaper bitcoin-to-bitcoin payments and more. Atomic Swaps. Interoperability between Bitcoin and altcoins is not new. So-called atomic swaps(or atomic cross-chain....
ATOMIC is a blockchain that seeks to act as a ledger for any and all cross-chain transactions. It’s billed as a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation and can also be used as a decentralized exchange for all cryptocurrencies. It’s currently unreleased and in development, set to launch before the end of 2014. Of special interest: “Any merchant that accepts cryptocurrency payments in one coin or another is by default already accepting ATOMIC payments,” the ATOMIC site reports. The ATOMIC blockchain will be mined by Proof Of Exchange (POE) and Proof Of Gateway (POG), which are “two brand new....
The second phase of the CBDC mock testing is expected to complete by June this year The Bank of Korea has successfully completed the first phase of its central bank digital currency mock testing started in August 2021. The South Korean central bank said that the first phase of its CBDC mock testing was completed in December while the second phase is currently underway, reported YNA news. The first phase of the mock test involved some of the basic functions of the sovereign digital currency such as distribution and issuance.The second phase of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot....