Germany’s Bundesbank is hiring DLT developers and engineers for its “new DLT team”. The job postings include a senior engineer and developer with EVM (Ethereum-compatible) skills.
During the last few months the Eurosystem has been conducting wholesale DLT settlement trials, which ramped up over the summer. The Bundesbank’s Trigger solution supports DLT payments by connecting DLTs to the T2 real time gross settlement system. As part of the trials, Italy provided another trigger-like solution and France offers a wholesale CBDC option. While the Trigger solution uses a private blockchain, it does not tokenize money.
One driver of the Trigger solution was uncertainty about whether work on a wholesale CBDC was warranted, when the future of tokenization was uncertain. There were also concerns that DLTs can fragment money by creating pockets of cash on different platforms.
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