MAS proposes ‘unbundling digital currency stack’

Layers of governance could allow single common settlement platform for CBDCs

Monetary Authority of Singapore
George Johnson

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has proposed “unbundling the digital currency stack” as a possible way to allow multiple CBDCs to be hosted on the same infrastructure.

In a blogpost, Toh Wee Kee, a specialist leader in distributed ledger technology at the MAS, notes m-CBDC arrangements are most effective and efficient if they run on the same platform.

“But this runs into a significant governance challenge: some central banks will be unwilling to share their CBDC infrastructure with certain

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