Banque de France, Hong Kong Monetary Authority explore CBDC, tokenization
The HKMA set up Project Ensemble several months ago to study asset tokenization and create a CBDC to support it.
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The HKMA set up Project Ensemble several months ago to study asset tokenization and create a CBDC to support it.
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