The Hong Kong Financial Authority (HKMA) is coming into the second part of its e-HKD (e-Hong Kong greenback) pilot program, testing use circumstances for a attainable central financial institution digital foreign money (CBDC).
In a brand new report issued by the HKMA, the central financial institution says the primary part of the trouble had 16 totally different corporations exploring a number of areas of CBDC use.
“Part one took deep dives into potential home and retail use circumstances in six classes: full-fledged funds, programmable funds, offline funds, tokenized deposits, settlement of web3 transactions, and settlement of tokenized property. Sixteen corporations from monetary, cost and expertise sectors have been chosen to take part.”
One part one participant, funds large Mastercard, explored “wrapping” e-HKD to be used throughout different blockchains by “simulating the acquisition of bodily gadgets and the contingent change of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) – every representing a digital certificates of authenticity for the bodily merchandise – on a tokenized asset community.”
The report notes a number of worries associated to CBDCs, together with privateness considerations expressed by these surveyed main as much as the part one launch in November 2022.
“Respondents have been typically receptive to an e-HKD, though they highlighted the necessity to research the business viability of use circumstances and different points corresponding to privateness protections and authorized issues.”
The report additionally flags safety considerations relating to programmable retail CBDCs (rCBDCs), which shoppers would use.
Says the report,
“An rCBDC issued as programmable cash could also be extra inclined to cybersecurity dangers, as it might current extra mediums for exterior threats to inject malicious code. A fragile stability will subsequently have to be struck between facilitating the trade’s improvement of revolutionary services, and guaranteeing the general security of financial and monetary programs.”
The second part of the pilot will “construct on the success of part one, and take into account exploring new use circumstances for an e-HKD” and “delve deeper into choose pilots from part one.”
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