Central Bank of Brazil Postpones CBDC Strategy, Shuts Down Current Pilot Platform
The Central Bank of Brazil announced it would discontinue the platform used to run drex, the Brazilian CBDC initiative, during its first two phases. Fabio Araujo, the project’s coordinator, stated that drex would pivot t...
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