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Ripple Starts Platform for Central Banks to Issue Their CBDCs

The firm will also showcase a real estate tokenization product as part of Hong Kong Monetary Authority's e-HKD pilot.

By Lavender Au
AccessTimeIconMay 18, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
Updated May 18, 2023 at 5:42 p.m. UTC
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Ripple is starting a central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform which allows central banks, governments, and financial institutions to issue their own digital currency.

Using Ripple's platform government institutions can manage and customize the entire life cycle of the CBDC, which includes minting, distribution, redemption and token burning. Financial institutions would also be able to manage and participate in inter-institutional settlement and distribution functions using the CBDC.

Central banks can issue both wholesale and retail CBDCs, which can make offline transactions as well.

The platform is an enhanced version of Ripple's Private Ledger, which was started in 2021 for issuing CBDCs. The platform is powered by the XRP Ledger, but was built on a new private ledger.

Ripple will show the use case for its platform under the e-HKD pilot, a program run by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the de facto central bank. It is also working with Taiwan's Fubon Bank, to build a product for real estate asset tokenization and equity distribution, under the e-HKD pilot.

Read more: Hong Kong's Central Bank Digital Currency Could Be on Permissioned Blockchain: Source

Edited by Parikshit Mishra.


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Lavender Au
Lavender Au

Lavender Au is a CoinDesk reporter with a focus on regulation in Asia. She holds BTC, ETH, NEAR, KSM and SAITO.

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