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China’s big 3 blockchain trade finance projects hit $63 billion in volume

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China has numerous blockchain trade finance initiatives. Yesterday, Fan Yifei, the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China announced that one of its initiatives has processed volumes of more than RMB 70 billion ($9.8 billion). The Bay Area Trade Finance Blockchain Platform focuses on cross border trade. Two months ago, the transactions on the China Construction Bank blockchain network crossed the 360 billion renminbi ($50.4 billion) mark. And the CITIC / Bank of China initiative has processed more than 20 billion renminbi ($2.8 billion) on its forfeiting blockchain. Between just these three projects that amounts to $63 billion in volume. Consider the rate of growth. In the case of the central bank’s Bay Area platform, the increase is 133% in just five months. That’s up from RMB 30 billion ($4.2 billion) in early July to RMB 70 billion now.

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