China ramps up efforts to push CBDC adoption among public
Source: CryptoSlate China is ramping up its efforts to popularize the use of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) — the digital yuan, or e-CNY — as the project moves closer to its planned national rollout. Starting in May, government employees in the city of Changshu will receive their salaries in the digital yuan. This […]
Adoption grows as more than $7T settled with stablecoins in 2022
Source: CryptoSlate The ongoing bear market did little to curb the rising use of stablecoins. On the contrary, dollar-pegged coins like USDT and USDC saw a parabolic growth in market cap this year, becoming a defacto settlement currency of the crypto industry. Following the collapse of Terra and its algorithmic stablecoin UST, the two stablecoin giants took over the majority of stablecoin […]
OpenCBDC to process 1.84M transactions per second as Boston Fed, MIT collab is complete
Source: CryptoSlate The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT announced on Dec. 22 that their CBDC research effort, Project Hamilton, is now complete. That initiative aimed to research the technical feasibility of a central bank digital currency or CBDC. Such an asset would be tied to the value of the U.S. dollar and issued by a […]
Indian central bank on track to launch retail CBDC pilot next month
Source: CryptoSlate The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, is finalizing the rollout of the retail digital rupee pilot, the Economic Times of India (ETI) reported on Nov. 19. The RBI initiated the wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot on Nov. 1 to test its usage in settling transactions in government securities. At the time, […]
FTX stablecoin reserves plunge as community fears bankrun
Source: CryptoSlate The crypto community fears FTX might cause another Terra-like crash after the stablecoin reserves on the exchange fell significantly over the last 24 hours. FTX stablecoin outflow leads other exchanges As reported by The Data Nerd, Nansen data shows that FTX stablecoin outflow was the highest among exchanges over the last seven days. According to the screenshot, […]
