South Korea’s Hana Bank to Work on CBDC and Stablecoin Alternatives
South Korea’s KEB Hana Bank is set to work with the central Bank of Korea (BOK) on the latter’s CBDC pilot and stablecoin alternatives, such as tokenized deposits. Per the newspaper Maeil Kyungjae, Hana Bank is now “acti...
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Per the newspaper Maeil Kyungjae, Hana Bank is now “actively participating” in the BOK’s ongoing CBDC Proof of Concept project.
The newspaper noted that the BOK and Hana will “actively participate in the preparation” of a “currency system based on blockchain technology.”...
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