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Project Agorá: The Largest BIS Experiment Merging Tokenized Deposits and Wholesale CBDC

Project Agorá, launched in April 2024 by the BIS Innovation Hub, is its largest public-private collaboration, testing a multi-currency unified ledger for wholesale cross-border payments. It builds on the BIS's "unified ledger" concept, exploring how tokenization and programmability can modernize correspondent banking without replacing the two-tier monetary system (commercial banks and central banks). This…

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Project Agorá, major BIS Innovation Hub initiative

Project Agorá (Greek for “marketplace”) is a major BIS Innovation Hub initiative launched in April 2024. It is a public-private collaboration exploring the tokenization of wholesale central bank money (wCBDC or tokenized reserves) and commercial bank deposits on a multi-currency unified ledger—a programmable platform—to improve wholesale cross-border payments while preserving the two-tier monetary system (central…

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Technical details on smart contracts for Ethereum-based repo tokenization pilots

Technical details on smart contracts for Ethereum-based repo tokenization pilots (e.g., Société Générale–Forge/Banque de France 2024 repo, UBS, Les Gardiennes collaborations, and related UBS uMINT/Project Guardian work) are not fully open-sourced or published in complete audited code form. These are institutional, regulated deployments focused on compliance, so details come from whitepapers, audits, press releases, and…

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