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China Crypto Insider Releases More Details About PBOC’s Digital Yuan Project

Nick Chong by Nick Chong
2 years ago
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Yesterday, the crypto community was shocked when local reports suggested that the Agricultural Bank of China — one of the nation’s biggest commercial banks, which is coincidentally state-owned — has begun to test a national digital currency project.

The reports cited images leaked through WeChat that showed a new application by the Agricultural Bank of China. They specifically depict a beta version of an application branded with the logos of the Agricultural Bank of China.

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Although the images have not been fully translated, the term “DC” (in English) is front-and-center on the application’s home screen, which coincides with the name many have given China’s digital yuan project: Digital Currency Electronic Payment, or DC/EP.

When these images were first shared, little was known about the project. But, as people have continued to sleuth the web, more information about the project has been found out, with Chinese crypto investors just today sharing more details about the venture by the People’s Bank of China, the nation’s central bank. 

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Matthew Graham — the chief executive of Sino Global Capital, a China-focused fund centered around crypto and blockchain, recently published an extensive Twitter thread outlining more details of the digital yuan project by the PBOC.

1) A DCEP wallet application from a test that included the Agricultural Bank of China was inadvertently published.  It’s important as it’s the first time we’ve seen pictures of the working DCEP wallet application, which is rumored to have a targeted late 2020 release date. pic.twitter.com/fRyi6BEZSl

— Matthew Graham (@mattysino) April 15, 2020

Graham found that the PBOC’s digital currency is likely to be tested in four regions: Shenzhen, Xiong’an, Chengdu, and Suzhou. The crypto investor claimed that these locations were likely chosen because they are considered “tier 1 or 2” cities and “are home to tech talent,” especially Shenzhen, deemed the Silicon Valley of China.

As to the details of the application itself, it was suggested that the application is structurally similar to Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay but with a few exceptions: the DC/EP wallet will allow for the completion of offline transactions, to convert bank holdings to a crypto yuan.

Unfortunately, Graham wasn’t too sure when exactly the Beijing government will fully launch the product, but asserted that it looks as though there is “firm progress” being made.

Good Timing

According to the Bank of International Settlements — the so-called “central bank of central banks” — the timing of this pilot’s launch could not be any better.

The BIS wrote in a bulletin published Apr. 3rd that the outbreak of the COVID-19 across the world has accelerated the public’s distaste for cash, which was already taking place as digital systems like WeChat Pay (China) and Google Pay (Western world) have started to crop up, and will likely accelerate central bank crypto assets:

“Resilient and accessible central bank operated payment infrastructures could quickly become more prominent, including retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).The pandemic may hence put calls for CBDCs into sharper focus, highlighting the value of having access to diverse means of payments, and the need for any means of payments to be resilient against a broad range of threats.”

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Nick Chong

Nick Chong

I am a writer who has been following Bitcoin for many years now. My pieces and interviews have been featured in leading publications in the industry such as LongHash and Decrypt. I own a small amount of Bitcoin.

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