U.S. Fed drops the wholesale CBDC term, Russian banks resist digital ruble push, China adds scenarios for state payments with e-CNY

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.

Ghana collaborates with the Monetary Authority of Singapore in moneytech. Digital yuan expands to Hong Kong while workers in the mainland convert their e-CNY salaries into cash. Also several bullish developments in the race to tokenize real-world assets.

The Governor of the Bank of England told an audience that an inability to specify a precise detailed use case today was no reason to put off investigating the future potential of ‘enhanced digital money’.

In a speech earlier this month, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England outlined four areas where the tokenization of money is now actively being explored by the United Kingdom’s central bank.