A Q&A on the stablecoin planned by nine EU banks – Ledger Insights
Earlier today, nine European banks announced plans for a joint venture to issue a stablecoin. The banks are:…
Germany’s central bank is creating DLT team, hiring engineers – Ledger Insights
Germany’s Bundesbank is hiring DLT developers and engineers for its “new DLT team”. The job postings include a…
ECB paper explores what makes stablecoins a “fungible” means of payment – Ledger Insights
The European Central Bank published a notable paper on stablecoin fungibility. This is not related to the debate…
French central bank mulls impact of tokenization on dollar dominance – Ledger Insights
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Deputy Governor of the Banque de France, recently debated whether tokenization could enhance the dollar’s dominance…
Korea, Japan to collaborate on digital bonds – Ledger Insights
Earlier this week, the Commissioner of Japan’s Financial Services Agency visited Korea to discuss collaborations between the two…
Bank of Italy develops custom Bitcoin consensus for central bank DLT – Ledger Insights
The Bank of Italy is planning quite a bit of research work on distributed ledger technology (DLT). In…
Bank of England: systemic stablecoins can hold ‘some’ government bonds – Ledger Insights
During a speech today, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden discussed stablecoins. When the central bank outlined…
IMF explores solutions to some of stablecoin’s challenges – Ledger Insights
If you’ve been reading coverage of stablecoins during this ‘stablecoin summer’, you’ll notice it has a tendency to…
Bank of Korea suggests stablecoin central bank backstop – Ledger Insights
During a joint industry and academic event covering stablecoins, the Bank of Korea’s Head of its Digital Currency…
Unpacking the report that ECB mulls public blockchain for digital euro CBDC – Ledger Insights
Today the Financial Times ran an article saying EU officials are accelerating plans for the digital euro central…
Brazil’s DREX CBDC project pivots away from blockchain, tokenization – Ledger Insights
Last week during a presentation at the Blockchain Rio event, Brazil’s central bank Governor Gabriel Gallipolo spoke about…
IMF blockchain analysis confirms stablecoins flow from US to RoW – Ledger Insights
New International Monetary Fund (IMF) research confirms what many suspected: stablecoins are accelerating dollar adoption worldwide, with billions…