A new paper warns Russia's digital ruble may struggle to attract global adoption, as Mastercard teams up with an African bank so tokenized transactions can be made using wearable devices.

More than 180 million digital yuan wallets have now been created — but over in the UK, campaigners fear "Britcoin" could plunge privacy and freedom of expression into peril.

While the idea of a unified ledger is not new, a proposition coming from the ECB, alongside the much-hyped digital euro, suggests a big shift could be coming.

SWIFT's take on unified ledgers, IMF's CBDC research and Brazil DREX vision. In the tokenization segment, Visa unveils a new tokenization platform that'll allow central banks and financial institutions to launch their own stablecoins.

An ECB research paper on CBDC adoption strategies and cross border CBDC projects in Asia. Another digital note from HSBC as a new report on the state of tokenization reveals surging trading volumes and a spike in experimentation.

Australia and Canada abandon retail CBDCs, as a new Atlantic Council report shows 44 countries are now piloting one. Meanwhile, HSBC buys and sells tokenized gold with the help of quantum-secure technology.

Doubts grow on whether the U.S. will ever launch a digital dollar—as Russia steps up efforts to make its digital ruble a mainstream payment method.

Concerns are growing that central banks are beginning to roll out products and services that directly compete with the private sector—and critics say this could cause big problems.