Today Mastercard announced the launch of a platform to enable the testing of central bank digital currencies (CBDC).
As central banks have become more interested in CBDC, numerous private sector firms have stepped up to offer solutions. They range from Accenture and SAP collaborating to enable tokenized real time gross settlement (RTGS) systems, to consultants such as ConsenSys. And blockchain protocols like Cypherium are trying to elbow their way into the conversation.
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