The Digital Euro Association is a think tank specializing in crypto assets, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, and other forms of digital money.
How does the XRP ledger of
@Ripple
's real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange, and remittance network actually work?
In this 10-piece video series, you will learn more about the key concepts of the XRP Ledger
📢 We are happy to have
@Ripple
on board as a gold sponsor for the Digital Euro Conference (
#DEC23
)! Join us on March 31, 2023 and meet the leading experts in the industry.
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💥The Republic of Palau has collaborated with
@Ripple
Labs to mint its inaugural
#stablecoin
, the Palau Stablecoin (PSC). PSC operates on the XRP Ledger, showcasing Ripple’s
#technology
as the backbone of this financial initiative.
The DEA member
@Ripple
launches
#CBDC
platform for the development of CBDCs and
#stablecoins
. Full-service platform allows users to seamlessly mint, manage, transact and redeem CBDCs and stablecoins. Check it out:
📢 We are happy to have
@Ripple
on board as a gold sponsor for the Digital Euro Conference (
#DEC24
)! Join us on February 29, 2024, and meet the leading experts in the industry.
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Next week, we our hosting our first of many DEA summerfests, generously sponsored by
@EYnews
,
@Ripple
and Bundesdruckerei and set up in collaboration with
@fsblockchain
.
We express our thanks to our sponsors who are decisively contributing to the success of the summerfest!
🎉 We are delighted to share that Anthony Ralphs, lead product manager at
@Ripple
, will join us as a panelist at the upcoming
#DEC23
. Join us on March 31, to meet Anthony and other leading experts in the industry.
🎟️Secure your spot:
🎉We're pleased to announce our partnership with the
@Aleph__Zero
Foundation, a leader in
#blockchain
technology. We're much looking forward to this collaboration!
🔗More details here:
🎉We're pleased to announce our partnership with the
@HBAR_foundation
, the Hedera network ecosystem force multiplier. We're much looking forward to this collaboration!
🔗More details here:
📢 Thrilled to share that our member
@Ripple
presented "Cross-border Payments with CBDC" at
@CBDC_Conference
! They emphasized the importance of cross-border
#CBDC
functionality. Stay tuned for more! 💱🌐
📢Attention to all
#developers
! The
#CBDC
Innovate Challenge by
@Ripple
is back! Participate in the
#hackathon
, share your
#CBDC
App concept before Aug 18, and contend for prizes! No category limits. Unleash your imagination and showcase your creativity! 🔗
🎉 We're excited to announce that
@AntonyWelfare
, senior advisor CBDC at
@Ripple
, will join us as a panelist at the upcoming
#DEC23
. Join us on March 31, 2023, to meet Antony and other leading experts in the industry.
🎟️Secure your spot:
📢Calling all
#developers
!
@Ripple
's
#CBDC
Innovate Challenge is back! Join the
#hackathon
, submit your
#CBDC
App idea by Aug 18, and compete for cash prizes! No category limits this year. Let your creativity shine! Enter now at:
What are real-world applications of blockchain and digital assets?
@Ripple
co-authored this report with UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies on
#stablecoins
and
#tokenization
.
Join
@Ripple
's CBDC innovate challenge! Enterprise and individual developers are invited to create CBDC applications for reward bounties.
To learn more and sign up, click here 👉
The newest edition of the
@Ripple
CBDC series is pusblished. In the article, the primary benefits and challenges of CBDCs are addressed in a comprehensive overview.
Read it here👉
📢Attention to all
#developers
! The
#CBDC
Innovate Challenge by
@Ripple
is back! Participate in the
#hackathon
, share your
#CBDC
App concept before Aug 18, and contend for prizes! No category limits. Unleash your imagination and showcase your creativity!🔗
@Ripple
Swell Global brings together the world's most influential voices across
#crypto
,
#CBDCs
,
#blockchain
,
#payments
, financial services and economic
#policy
. Join them November 16-17 at Magazine London.
To request your invitation, click here:
Check out the joint press statement on the partnership with
@digitalpoundfdn
! We are looking forward to working together on an ecosystem for privately- and publicly-issued
#digital
#money
.
🎉Our member
@Ripple
has clinched two prestigious awards at Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards for Fintech &
#Payments
2023. The company has been honored with the “Sustainability in
#Fintech
Innovation of the Year” and the “
#CBDC
Innovation” award.
@Ripple
Swell Global brings together the world's most influential voices across
#crypto
,
#CBDCs
,
#blockchain
,
#payments
, financial services and economic
#policy
. Join them November 16-17 at Magazine London.
To request your invitation, click here:
📢The DEA member
@Ripple
becomes the
#tech
partner for the National Bank of Georgia's Digital GEL Pilot Project. Ripple is a leading cross-border
#payments
network that helps financial institutions integrate
#blockchain
and mint
#digital
assets.
🎉We are excited to announce that James Wallis, vice president of RippleX at
@Ripple
, will join us as a panelist at the upcoming
#DEC24
. Join us on February 29, 2024, to meet James and other leading experts in the industry.
🎟️Secure your spot:
The DEA is growing. Starting now, we are looking for an executive director that compliments our existing DEA team in building the DEA community, developing business strategy, advising on and researching topics around digital money
Learn more & apply:
📢Calling all
#developers
!
@Ripple
's
#CBDC
Innovate Challenge is back! Join the
#hackathon
, submit your
#CBDC
App idea by Aug 18, and compete for cash prizes! No category limits this year. Let your creativity shine! Enter now at:
📢Calling all
#developers
!
@Ripple
's
#CBDC
Innovate Challenge is back! Join the
#hackathon
, submit your
#CBDC
App idea by Aug 18, and compete for cash prizes! No category limits this year. Let your creativity shine! Enter now at:
📢It's tomorrow! Last chance to join us on Feb 29, 2024, and discover the latest developments in
#CBDCs
,
#stablecoins
, commercial bank money
#tokens
and the future of
#money
.
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In their new article
@Ripple
is deconstructing the buzz word "financial inclusion", listing the arguments in favor of it and enumerating the key hurdles for
#CBDC
implementation.
Read up on the first part of their series here:
🔔 DEA Techy Tuesday - Episode 1 🔔
In the first episode of this new series,
@V_Seehausen
interviews Antony Welfare and Anthony Ralphs from
@Ripple
on its
#CBDC
#technology
. Enjoy this fun-techy conversation!
🎥 Watch here:
🇩🇪 The Deutsche Bundesbank and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have agreed to conduct a joint research project on central bank digital currency (
#CBDC
).
🔗
The
@EU_Commission
published yesterday its legislative proposal on a
#digitaleuro
. Like banknotes and coins are now, a digital euro would be a universal means of
#payment
across the entire euro area.
🔗
We are thrilled to announce that the
@digitalpoundfdn
will join the
#DEA
. The DPF is an independent forum that supports the implementation of a well-designed digital Pound and digital money ecosystem. Welcome to the community!
How can CBDCs and blockchain create efficiencies in Delivery vs. Payment processes?
DFine has released a new whitepaper that presents different settlement types (i.e., gross and netted trades) using CBDC and digital assets on a blockchain infrastructure
🚀 CBDCs go live - Bahamas, ECCU and Nigeria. In this article, Juan Gutierrez and Marlene Marz take a closer look at how and why these countries managed to launch a
#CBDC
in a relatively short period of time and how the projects have developed.
“How can the
#Euro
remain important from a
#geopolitical
perspective?”. Join us when our exciting panelists talk about such questions about the
#future
of
#payments
. Tune in on February, 10 2022, from 5pm to 6.30pm CET.
🎟 Register here for free:
📢 We’re delighted to release the DEA's paper: "Ahead of the
#DigitalEuro
: Public Digital Euro Working Group Recommendations”. Check out our analysis and
#recommendations
. Thank you to all DEA Working Group members who contributed to it!
➡️
📢 We’re delighted to release the DEA’s Private
@DigiEuro
Working Group paper: “Stablecoins: An introduction and recommendations for the EU”. We endeavor to bring some clarity to the
#stablecoin
discussion. Thank you to all DEA Working Group members!
➡️
🌏Central Bank Digital Currencies in the Middle East and Central Asia. This is a department paper by the IMF on
#CBDCs
among central banks, including in the Middle East and Central Asia region.
We are thrilled to announce that
@circlepay
has joined the
#DEA
as a supporting member. Circle is the principal issuer of USD Coin (
#USDC
), one of the largest and fastest-growing dollar
#digital
#currencies
worldwide. Welcome to the community!
@Ripple
Swell Global brings together the world's most influential voices across
#crypto
,
#CBDCs
,
#blockchain
,
#payments
, financial services and economic
#policy
. Join them November 16-17 at Magazine London.
To request your invitation, click here:
We are thrilled to report that Jaskaran Singh, Associate Team Member of the
@DigiEuro
had the honor to meet Christine Lagarde, President of the
@ecb
, in Washington D.C., at the World Bank – IMF Spring Meetings 2023!
We're delighted to announce our partnership with
@MNB_Hungary
(MNB), the Central Bank of
#Hungary
. The MNB launched its first retail
#CBDC
pilot project in September 2020 and has established the MNB
#Innovation
Hub for consultation. We're looking forward to collaborating!
❓Which primary characteristics must a
#digitaleuro
possess to guarantee being a serious alternative to physical money in the future?
Check out the Digital Euro Association Working Group recommendations from the
#design
,
#payment
and
#legal
perspectives.
The Digital Euro Association is delighted to announce its partnership with which is building a financial market infrastructure (FMI) for the digital age! We are very much looking forward to the collaboration and to carrying
#digital
#money
forward jointly.
The DEA welcomes Obius as it's newest active member! Obius is a blockchain-based Entreprise-Resource- Planning (ERP) software that aims at giving web3.0 companies access to ERP. Together, we look forward to exciting projects and collaborations.
Next week, we are hosting our annual DEA Summerfest, generously sponsored by
@EYnews
and
@Ripple
and set up in collaboration with
@fsblockchain
.
We express our thanks to our sponsors who are decisively contributing to the success of the Summerfest! ☀️
We are delighted to share that Bulgarian Fintech Association has joined the
#DEA
as an institutional member. BFA is a cluster organization uniting public, private and academia sectors to further develop the
#fintech
conditions in
#Southeastern
#Europe
. Welcome to the DEA!
Join us for the DEA panel "Digital Money in Times of Crises" on May 31, when Cyrus de la Rubia (HCO), Kateryna Zhabska (
@NBUkraine_eng
), Glenn Kim (
@fluencycbdc
) and Caroline Hill (
@circlepay
) discuss digital money as a crisis tool.
Sign up here (0€) 👉
🏦Bank Indonesia recently shared the results of its
#wholesale
#CBDC
consultation. Now, the central bank will progress Project Garuda to a proof of concept. Check it out!
"More than 260 million people are already using China’s digital currency, totalizing more than US$13.8 billion worth of transactions." Check out
@OriolCaudevilla
's opinion on the
#Digital
#Yuan
as a tool for cross-border
#payments
.
🚀 Discover the future of digital money at the 2023 DEA Thesis Awards Ceremony! 🏆 Join us on May 10th as top emerging researchers unveil their innovative findings on
#CBDCs
&
#Stablecoins
. Don't miss out! Register now:
#DEAThesisAwards
#DigitalEuro
📚A recent paper titled "Introduction to Central Bank Digital Currencies and Their Technical
#Interoperability
" by authors Matilde Faro, Xiaojun Luo, and Christopher Carr delves deep into the position and relevance of
#CBDCs
in today's financial landscape.
44% of the DEA Community believe payment efficiency is the most important reason for a central bank issuing a retail
#CBDC
. Camila Carabini also gave us her opinion⬇️
Thank you to everyone who participated, and stay tuned for the next DEA Question of the Month!
Bhutan's central bank partnered with Ripple to build a
#CBDC
pilot using the public XRP Ledger. Learn more about Ripple's technology and the use cases for CBDCs by tuning in to the new
#DEA
podcast episode with James Wallis,
@AntonyWelfare
and
@manoloklein
📣🇪🇺 The DEA proudly unveils its comprehensive commentary on the EU's regulatory proposal on the
#digitaleuro
. Delve into expert insights, potential challenges, opportunities, and our vision for the digital euro's integration into the European landscape.
🔗
The global trend towards
#CBDCs
is accelerating, with + 100 countries exploring digital currencies. Join us at the
#DEC23
to stay on top of the latest trends in CBDCs,
#stablecoins
, and commercial bank money tokens.
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🔥One week to go! CBDC Conference Istanbul 2023. This event is the meeting place for representatives from
#centralbanks
, commercial banks, academia,
#policymakers
, technology providers and interested individuals to learn about and discuss
#CBDC
. More:
The new DEA website is online and ready to be discovered by our community and those who want to become part of it – as an institution or as an individual.
Discover it here and become a member today:
🔔The much-anticipated
#CBDC
Conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany, from August 29-31, 2022. If you missed it, let us bring you up to speed!
👀Check out our event recap here:
We're thrilled to announce we've joined
@Hyperledger
, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise-grade
#blockchain
technologies, to foster healthy discussions around
#digitalization
of money and promote collaboration between industry leaders.
📢 Now it’s official! The CBDC Manifesto has been published! Check out the 5
#design
recommendations for a retail
#CBDC
, developed by the
@DigiEuro
, the CBDC Think Tank, world-leading CBDC experts and the DEA community. Thank you to all participants!
Missed the CBDCs in Asia event last week?
Catch up by reading the recap blog post and watching the panel on YouTube (link in the blog post) to learn more about the functionality of the digital yuan app and the Bank of Japan's effort designing a CBDC.
We are delighted to welcome
@Web3foundation
as a new institutional member. Web3's mission is to nurture cutting-edge applications for
#decentralized
web software protocols. Looking forward to collaborating!
🤝 has signed pilot agreements as momentum builds in emerging markets for its cutting-edge
#settlement
service. MDO Humo (Tajikistan) and Credo Bank (Georgia) are the institutions that will run pilots with .
Yesterday, we hosted the first DEA summerfest in Frankfurt where our members met in-person for the first time, exchanged on the digital money ecosystem and payed in DEA coins provided by
@trustody_io
.
We greatly thank our valued sponsors Bundesdruckerei,
@EYnews
and
@Ripple
!
🌏Hokkoku Bank launches Japan’s first
#deposit
-backed
#stablecoin
. Last year it launched the Tochituka app, which allows citizens to earn Tochipo points from the local Suzu City government and spend them at certain stores.
We're delighted to announce our partnership with the Payment and Financial Technologies Development Center of NBK (PFTDC). The PFTDC has been running the Digital Tenge pilot since 2021 to test a tokenized form in retail settlements. We're looking forward to collaborating!
Will stablecoins battle tokenized deposits? A panel at the Digital Euro Conference (
#DEC24
) explored the trade-offs between
#stablecoins
and tokenized commercial bank money.
🚀Calling all digital money enthusiasts! Join us on Feb 29, 2024, and discover the latest developments in
#CBDCs
,
#stablecoins
, commercial bank money
#tokens
and the future of
#money
.🌟 25% off: "DEACommunity25" 🎟️
In their new paper
@Jonas__Gross
and
@philippsandner
provide a geopolitical comparison of the digital dollar and the digital yuan and conclude that in the most extreme case, the euro could become a regional currency for Europe.
Read the full paper here:
The
@ecb
is planning to collaborate with five companies to develop potential user interfaces for the
#digitaleuro
. The goal is to test whether the digital euro technology is working with front-end prototypes developed by the five companies.
Did you miss our Digital Money in Times of Crisis event? In our new format, we summarize the main points of discussion and take aways for you
You can now chose between watching, listening and reading up on the latest DEA events
Read the first one here 👉
📢The central bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) conducted its first cross-border digital dirham transfer using the mBridge central bank digital currency (
#CBDC
) platform on Jan. 29. Check it out!
💥 Now it's official! Check out the Digital Euro Conference 2023 Recap!💥The
#DEC23
, held on the 31st of March, 2023, brought together experts, policymakers, and industry leaders in a hybrid format. Find out the key takeaways here: ⬇️
🎉 Celebrate innovation in digital money at the 2023 DEA Thesis Awards Ceremony! 🌐 Join us on May 10th to learn from top minds as they present cutting-edge research on
#CBDCs
&
#Stablecoins
. Save your spot now:
#DEAThesisAwards
#DigitalEuro
📢Adhara wins Bank of Spain contract for
#wholesale
#CBDC
, tokenized deposit trials. The Adhara project involves the issuance of two or more separate wholesale CBDCs for cross-border purposes and the provision of
#wallets
to participants.
"The
#digitaleuro
wouldn't replace other electronic
#payment
methods, or indeed
#cash
. Rather, it'd complement them. And by doing so, it'd safeguard our monetary
#sovereignty
while strengthening Europe’s strategic autonomy." Check out Mr. Panetta's speech:
What is known about the digital euro so far? Read up on it in this article featuring
@Jonas__Gross
’s and
@philippsandner
’s assessments of the current developmental phase of a CBDC by the ECB
🎉We're pleased to announce our partnership with Eurodollar, a
#fintech
innovator issuing EUD - a digital dollar, made in Europe. We're much looking forward to this collaboration!
🔗More details here:
Excited to share that the mobile-first blockchain
@Celo
is partnering with
@Forbes
to discuss the future of
#CBDCs
and
#cryptocurrencies
. Register for free and hear from some of the sharpest minds in the CBDC space!
45% of the DEA Community believes a CBDC should be built based on
#blockchain
technology.
@DPutts
also gave us his opinion. Thank you to everyone and stay tuned for the next DEA Question of the Month!