A significant portion of central banks worldwide have delayed their plans for launching CBDCs, citing regulatory challenges.

data from the Atlantic Council CBDC tracker shows. In April 2021, 74 nations were experimenting with the CBDC. By September 2024, the number went up to 134. Of these, 21 were inactive, while ...

Donald Trump's rapid move to ban a "digital dollar" has left the field wide open, observers say, for China and Europe to make ...

The shift towards national currencies and a multipolar world is here to stay, says Lillie Ferriol Prat, a research assistant ...

The Biden administration pushed the idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as part of its attempt to get a grip on ...

Opposition to a CBDC has been growing, with critics arguing that a government-issued digital currency could give authorities excessive control over citizens’ financial activities. Lawmakers fear that ...

The OG cypherpunk and founder of Blockstream says state-issued digital currency is nothing like Bitcoin. Back is a speaker at Consensus Hong Kong Feb. 18-20.

A central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is a digital version of a region ... Such stablecoins aim to track the value of underlying assets, such as the U.S. dollar, although the stablecoins ...