Bank of Spain selects partners for CBDC testing

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Cecabank, Abanca and Adhara Blockchain have been chosen from the 24 applications received over the past year.

Spain’s central bank, Banco de España, has chosen its collaborators a year after publishing an open call for partners to participate in central bank digital currency (CBDC) tests.

On Jan. 3, the central bank published a resolution announcing its partnership with Cecabank, Abanca, and Adhara Blockchain.

The pilot of the wholesale CBDC will take place in the next six months and will feature the simulation of the processing and settlement of interbank payments with a single tokenized wholesale CBDC and by exchanging several wholesale CBDCs issued by different central banks.

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