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Australia’s central bank launches 3-year program for wholesale CBDC

DIGIT — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:46:14 +0000

RBA Assistant Governor Brad Jones said the potential benefits of a retail CBDC in Australia appear modest or uncertain at present.

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Australia marks first FX transaction using a CBDC as eAUD pilot continues

DIGIT — Thu, 18 May 2023 02:00:00 +0000

The Australian digital dollar was used in a trade for a U.S. dollar stablecoin using an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain.

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Australian ‘Big Four’ bank ANZ halts cash withdrawals from many branches

DIGIT — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:39:56 +0000

The move comes as Australians continue to reduce their usage of cash and bank branches, but has sparked fears that the death of cash is near.

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Coinbase met with Australian banking regulators over local crypto regulations

DIGIT — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 06:05:41 +0000

Coinbase’s vice president of international policy told Cointelegraph the meetings took place in Canberra and Sydney and touched on the government’s token mapping efforts.

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Australian central bank to launch ‘live pilot’ of CBDC in coming months

DIGIT — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:35:01 +0000

The use cases for the CBDC ranged from offline payments to “trusted Web3 commerce” and financial industry participants were invited to undertake a live pilot.

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Turkey’s central bank completes first CBDC test with more to come in 2023

DIGIT — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 04:00:00 +0000

After recently completing its first payment transactions using a CBDC, the central bank is pushing ahead with more tests over 2023.

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Digital assets could add $40B a year to Aussie GDP: Tech Council report

DIGIT — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:21:13 +0000

A clear principles-based regulatory approach to the digital assets sector could be a huge benefit to the Australian economy according to the report.

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Reserve Bank of Australia to Pilot Digital Currency, Explore Use Cases

DIGIT — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:30:40 +0000

The monetary authority in Australia is beginning research into the potential economic benefits of issuing a central bank digital currency. Within the project, the regulator hopes to identify use cases and intends to develop a limited-scale pilot. Central Bank of Australia Working on Digital Currency Program The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced the launch […]

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Australian Reserve Bank’s ‘Project Atom’ CBDC research finds numerous benefits

DIGIT — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 02:51:50 +0000

Following Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s “payments and crypto reform plan,” the RBA has published a report exploring DLT tech and wholesale CBDC issuance.

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True or false: 91% of surveys about Bitcoin and crypto are totally wrong

DIGIT — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:57:24 +0000

Welcome to the statistically dubious world of cryptocurrency surveys. Here, we’ll find out how many Aussies really own crypto, and why there are so many different claims.

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