ECB official backs central-bank money on blockchain

Bloomberg · 16 hours ago
ECB official backs central-bank money on blockchain
  • Isabel Schnabel said bringing central-bank money on-chain would preserve its role as the foundation of settlement.
  • She linked distributed-ledger programmability to modernization of monetary-policy implementation, collateral management and liquidity provision, with financial-stability benefits.

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It would also enable central banks to leverage the programmability of distributed ledgers to modernize monetary-policy implementation, collateral management and liquidity provision, thereby also fostering financial stability.Isabel Schnabel

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