Blockchain & crypto news from India
Brazil’s Central Bank will launch the country’s CBDC in 2024. Currently the digital Real currency is in the testing phase. The Digital Real is an innovative way to introduce a national virtual currency by simply tokenizing bank deposits. The IMF too has praised this concept. Tokenizing bank deposits is an easy way to introduce digital…
Other than for scams and frauds, cryptocurrency has its uses in the world of charity too. Crypto payments are fast – millions can be transferred from one part of the world to another without too many people in the know. Setting an account is easy, and there are no intermediaries. The usefulness of digital currencies…
The pilot study of the CBDC has raised curiosity about the new digital currency. While the responses of participants are expectedly tepid and restrained, the question uppermost on everyone’s mind is – how is this better than UPI/Bhim/Paytm? The retail pilot of CBDC is planned on a limited scale, and currently only on invite basis….
While the Western world is in no hurry with the CBDC, two more countries have announced their upcoming CBDC pilots. Japan has been experimenting with the CBDC technology for some time, and will now launch a pilot CBDC in April 2023. The testing phase was done by PoCs, and the pilot will further test the…
The Central Bank of the UAE (CUAE) has announced a transformation program for the emirate’s financial sector, and its nine initiatives include a CBDC. In order to make UAE a “financial and digital payment hub”, the CUAE has launched the Financial Infrastructure Transformation Programme (FIT). The wider aim is to push the CUAE among the…
The blocks on bitcoin blockchain have consistently begun to breach the 3MB size. The first time this occurred was on February 1, 2023. Bitcoin.com reports that history was made this day when the mining pool Luxor became the first to mine block #774,628 with a size of 3.96MB, the largest so far. Bitcoin blocks are…
‘The Bitcoin-Macro Disconnect’ by Gianluca Benigno and Carlo Rosa, published this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is a staff report inspired by the aim to figure out the drivers of prices of Bitcoin, the most popular of cryptocurrencies. The motivation comes from the huge market capitalization that Bitcoin soared to recently,…
Though far from official and not likely to be used, “Britcoin” is trending as the name of the digital pound, whose initial plan has been released by the Bank of England and the Treasury. The digital pound will be the CBDC of Britain, and is not likely to see the light of day until a…
Many firsts are being created during the retail trial phase of e-Rupee, India’s answer to Bitcoin and the onslaught of cryptocurrencies. The latest in the news are payment platforms and retail chains announcing their integration of the CBDC. Reliance Retail has shared it has integrated e-rupee into the Freshpik stores to begin with. This has…
The e-Rupee is the CBDC or central bank digital currency of India, to be launched in the near future to keep the threat of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin at bay. The retail and wholesale pilots of the CBDC are the most recent stages of the digital rupee that will help test and improve upon the design…