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).
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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…