Four
Central Banks Have Launched Digital Currencies, and 14 More Are Developing
Theirs
Crypto news outlet The Block
has looked into over 60 central banks, 18 of which have publicly acknowledged
the development or launch of a central bank digital currency. Four of these
have already launched their CBDC – one of them being Venezuela’s oil-backed
cryptocurrency, the Petro.
Per The Block’s research, the
most popular platform used by the central banks developing their own digital
currencies is R3’s Corda enterprise ledger, although it’s unclear which
blockchain platform some digital currencies are using, if any.
The four launched CBDC’s are
Tunisia’s e-Dinar, Venezuela’s Petro, Uruguay’s e-Peso, and Senegal’s eCFA.
Out of these, it’s only known the Petro uses the NEM blockchain.
