Banque de France selected the firms for its announced CBDC trial [1]. Four out of the eight companies chosen are old economy giants who are venturing into the brave new world, but the remaining four are more recent upstarts: Iznes, LiquidShare, ProsperUS, and SEBA Bank.

  1. https://www.fintechdirect.net/2020/07/21/banque-de-france-turns-to-grateful-eight-for-cbdc-tests/
  2. https://www.btc-echo.de/cbdc-frankreich-startet-testlauf-fuer-digitalen-euro
  3. https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2020/07/164330-banque-de-france-announces-cbdc-candidate-selections/
  4. https://www.banque-france.fr/communique-de-presse/liste-des-candidatures-retenues-pour-les-experimentations-de-monnaie-digitale-de-banque-centrale
  5. https://business.inquirer.net/303055/philippine-treasury-is-asia-pioneer-in-leveraging-distributed-ledger-technology-blockchain-for-treasury-bonds
  6. https://cointelegraph.com/news/kazakhstan-needs-national-crypto-to-fight-corruption-says-local-official
  7. https://www.seba.swiss/news/banque-de-france-candidates-testing-integration-cbdc/
  8. https://www.iznes.io/en
  9. https://www.liquidshare.io
  10. https://prosperus.tech

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