The Hong Kong Financial Authority (HKMA) is getting into the second part of its e-HKD (e-Hong Kong greenback) pilot program, testing use instances for a potential central financial institution digital forex (CBDC).
In a brand new report issued by the HKMA, the central financial institution says the primary part of the hassle had 16 completely different companies exploring a number of areas of CBDC use.
“Section one took deep dives into potential home and retail use instances in six classes: full-fledged funds, programmable funds, offline funds, tokenized deposits, settlement of web3 transactions, and settlement of tokenized property. Sixteen companies 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 objects 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 instances and different points comparable 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 prone to cybersecurity dangers, as it might current extra mediums for exterior threats to inject malicious code. A fragile stability will subsequently must be struck between facilitating the business’s growth of modern services and products, 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 think about exploring new use instances for an e-HKD” and “delve deeper into choose pilots from part one.”
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