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Chinese ride-hailing firm partners with PBoC digital currency research arm to test digital yuan

China’s Central Bank Digital Currency Research Institute and Chinese transportation giant Didi Chuxing have reached an agreement to explore and develop the use of digital yuan in the transportation

A major Chinese e-commerce platform and a video sharing site have reportedly joined China’s CBDC project.

SFB Technologies' chief economist sees a future for central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, but not for privately issued stablecoins.

Fabio Panetta, a member of the Executive Board of the ECB, stated in his address to the European Parliament that the ECB intends to remain at the forefront of discussions concerning the nature of m

CBDCs will have to be internationally interoperable to become globally adopted, says a Hong Kong University expert.

BoJ publishes report on feasibility of digital yen

So far, the story of blockchain has been one of new financial services built on decentralised technology. As the continuing prominence of Bitcoin demonstrates, these decentralised finance, or DeF

With its forthcoming digital yuan, China will aim to rival the U.S. dollar, not Bitcoin, say experts.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) could be the most important payment trend in development with the most profound effects on our systems of payment and money issuance according to Cuy Sheffiel

China’s CBDC wants to displace the U.S. dollar, but Genesis Block’s Charles Yang believes it doesn’t offer a compelling alternative to USDT.

Visa’s head of crypto says CBDC is the most important payments trend in the next decade.

After temporarily shelving the idea to create a digital yen in the central bank digital currency (CBDC) race just as the competition between the world’s leading countries was heating up, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is finally moving forward with a digital yen again with the release of a report studying the effects a digital yen and what advantages or disadvantages it can possibly bring to Japan.

The Bank of Japan announced on Thursday that it would experiment with a CBDC to check its feasibility from a technical perspective.

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has just announced that it will begin experimenting with a Digital Yen, its own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) to test its technical application and feasibility.