>50% of central banks in both, advanced and emerging economies are considering using DLT for wholesale CBDCs

>50% of central banks in both, advanced and emerging economies are considering using DLT for wholesale CBDCs

this means that wholesale CBDC is likely to be implemented using some form of blockchain technology - much more likely than the retail CBDC

Illya Gerasymchuk 2025-08-28 09:05

only 6% of advanced economies (AE) central banks and 40% of emerging economies (EM) central banks are considering distributed ledger technology (DLT) as an implementation layer for retail CBDCs

here, consider DLT = blockchain