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European Central Bank (ECB) Considers Direct Issuance, Bridges, Private Tokens for On-Chain Reserves

The European Central Bank (ECB) has outlined three distinct ways to make central-bank money available on programmable networks, arguing that the safest settlement asset should remain accessible as markets move toward tokenized securities, deposits, and stablecoins. Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel presented the framework on… Read More

Pontes and Appia: The ECB’s Distributed Ledger (CLT) Project

The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to launch the long-anticipated “Pontes” ecosystem with qualified distributed ledger technology-enhanced platforms that provide services, including tokenization, to the European wholesale market. The ECB’s Governing Council approved Pontes in 2025, which takes a two-track approach: the first track,… Read More

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