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What CBDCs Mean for the Future of DeFi and Stablecoins

Central bank-issued digital currencies are an existential threat to permissionless stablecoins and finance.

(Michal Dziekonski/Unsplash)

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Fed Reserve Governor Quarles Doesn’t See Reasoning Behind CBDCs

Randal Quarles, who also chairs the Financial Stability Board, said he’s not certain how a central bank digital currency could address financial inclusivity concerns.

FSB Chair Randal Quarles (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

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France Trials CBDC, Blockchain for Government Bond Deals

The experiment is one of the EU’s largest to date, with nearly 500 transactions executed during trial.

Banque de France in Paris, France. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Crypto 2022 Policy Week: Reckoning With Regulation

Steven Kelly, research associate at Yale University's Program on Financial Stability, discusses what to expect from the Federal Reserve’s report on CBDCs, stablecoins and crypto, and what crypto regulation could look like in the U.S.

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Ghana Wants to Make Its CBDC Available for Use Offline: Report

The country’s digital currency, the e-cedi, would work via the use of smart cards, according to an official at the Bank of Ghana.

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Bank of Japan Seeks ‘Plain, Easy-to-Cook’ CBDC Model

An executive director has stressed that the BoJ has “no plans to issue a CBDC at this time,.

Monex Group CEO: Bank of Japan 'Seriously Working' on Digital Yen

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G-7 Finance Officials Outline Policy Principles for Retail CBDCs

Any CBDC must “do no harm” to central banks’ ability to maintain monetary and financial stability.

The G-7 held its annual summit in Cornwall, U.K. in June (Hugh R Hastings/Getty Images)

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Digital Pound Foundation Launches to Push for UK CBDC

The Bank of England has also set up forums to explore a digital currency.

The Bank of England said it will buy bonds to try to put the brakes on a developing financial crisis in the U.K. (Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

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Venezuela’s New Digital Bolivar Isn’t Digital, and It Won’t Solve the Country’s Economic Crisis

In view of the hyperinflation in the Latin American country, the government decided to remove six zeros from the currency and issue a new bolivar. For a third time.

(Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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National Bank of Georgia to Test CBDC Next Year

The pilot program will initially focus on retail payments.

Tbilisi, Georgia's capital