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CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency)

Many Central banks are contemplating the release of CBDC. CBDC drives most of the institutional interaction with Central banks today, this can be seen as "Wholesale CBDC". This is a well understood concept and is used every day. CBDC for retail is what we are really talking about when we say CBDC.

Central Bank Digital Currency: Towards A Composable Standards-Based Implementation-- link is available in
Review of Whitepaper on CBDC

Numerous Articles on CBDC (in medium as well as Forbes) from Vipin

Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/vipinbharathan

Medium article on monetary policy and CBDC: https://medium.com/@vipinsun/central-bank-digital-currency-1af7e072e660

Talk at Boston Hyperledger Meetup with Public Sector SIG

Vipin Bharathan, chair CMSIG

CBDC rationale, design & challenges.pdf - the pdf handout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NESXO0SIsw - the youtube meeting recording

ECB PoC on CBDC

The European Central Bank organized the experts from ESCB to create a PoC under their EuroChain research lab. Working with Corda and Accenture to implement this.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.mipinfocus191217.en.pdf

What are the important features of this PoC?

• Anonymous as cash (at least that is the claim) and does not earn interest (or more importantly does not get slammed with negative interest)- especially for lower valued transactions
• Uses separate Intermediaries for custody and interaction by retail customers; ECB or Central banks do not interact directly with retail customers
• Only Central Banks can issue CBDC
• AML/KYC authority controls the amounts and destination (payee) since embargoed individuals can never receive payments.

A mix of related articles for consideration:

Dimwiddie's bond initiative (SD8)

Bonds based on payments on the player's contract.

Token Taxonomy Initiative

In our taxonomy section we briefly allude to Token Taxonomy and the Token Taxonomy Initiative.

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