The challenges with designing a CBDC, explained
Central bank digital currencies face a tricky trilemma when it comes to ensuring they are well designed. What’s the answer? How can this CBDC design trilemma be overcome?An identity-based, meta-blockchain can achieve all three design goals of identity, privacy and programmability.While blockchain systems can be structurally decentralized, the operation itself can be very much centralized and sequential.The problem lies in how transactions cannot be processed in parallel — and multiple smart contracts cannot be operated simultaneously.A meta-blockchain that can operate smart contracts in....
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Executives and experts from Google, Amazon, PayPal and ConsenSys will be assisting Britain’s central bank with its CBDC research. The United Kingdom’s central bank is ramping up its research into a central bank digital currency (CBDC) with the selection of a long list of banking and fintech experts to assist it.On Sept. 29 the Bank of England announced the membership of its CBDC Engagement and Technology Forums and they include some big names in technology and finance including Google, Mastercard, Consensys — and even Spotify.This week’s announcement is a signal that the central bank is....
A retail CBDC or an indirect one? Synthetic? An API approach? How central banks implement digital currencies will have seismic implications.
The retail CBDC will be developed in partnership with private entities, which “would be the digital equivalent of today’s notes and coins.” The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has ramped up efforts to research and develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for retail use under the Project Orchid initiative. According to MAS managing director Ravi Menon, Singapore’s retail CBDC will be developed in a partnership with private entities, which “would be the digital equivalent of today’s notes and coins.”Speaking at the Singapore FinTech Festival, Menon highlighted the benefits of....
The results of a new study from the Bank of Thailand point to three key considerations for making sure a retail central bank digital currency doesn't adversely impact financial stability. The Bank of Thailand has published the results of a new study into how to manage the implications of issuing a retail central bank digital currency (CDBC) for the country’s financial sector.As distinct from a wholesale CBDC, which is limited to use by financial institutions and intermediaries, a retail CBDC is widely available for use by the general public. The Bank of Thailand, like many other central....
“We will continue to explore the pros and cons of CBDC,” said Tom Mutton. At the 2nd Bund Summit held on Oct. 25, Bank of England fintech director Tom Mutton stated that while a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, was “a focus” for the Bank of England, the position the bank had taken this past March hadn’t changed. “We haven’t made any decision on whether or not to launch a retail CBDC,” said Mutton. “But we are exploring the pros and cons with interest.”Specifically, the BoE exec stated the central bank was looking into payment options for people in the U.K. who were affected by the....