BIS Announces Project Agorá: Central Banks Bet on Tokenization for Cross Border Settlements
The Bank for International Settlements, the central banks’ bank, announced the launch of Project Agorá, a joint private-public initiative seeking to examine the potential benefits of tokenization for improving cross-bord...
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