#ecbstartsblockchaineurosettlement
🇪🇺 The ECB just connected tokenised markets to central-bank money.
The European Central Bank launched Pontes on September 21, a new Eurosystem service that lets wholesale tokenised-asset transactions settle in central-bank euros.
And that distinction matters.
Pontes connects market DLT platforms with the Eurosystem’s TARGET Services, bringing traditional payment infrastructure closer to tokenised financial markets.
It’s also different from using a private stablecoin or tokenised bank deposit for settlement.
The ECB is going further, too. It has started preparing to invest a small portion of its own funds in euro-denominated tokenised public-sector and supranational securities, with those purchases planned to settle through Pontes.
For the tokenisation sector, the bigger story is infrastructure.
Issuance → trading → settlement → custody could increasingly become more automated as traditional finance moves onto DLT-based rails.
The question now is simple:
How quickly will major financial institutions actually use it at scale? 👀
$STRK
$INJ
$APT
#blockchain #Tokenization #digitaleuro #ECB
🇪🇺 The ECB just connected tokenised markets to central-bank money.
The European Central Bank launched Pontes on September 21, a new Eurosystem service that lets wholesale tokenised-asset transactions settle in central-bank euros.
And that distinction matters.
Pontes connects market DLT platforms with the Eurosystem’s TARGET Services, bringing traditional payment infrastructure closer to tokenised financial markets.
It’s also different from using a private stablecoin or tokenised bank deposit for settlement.
The ECB is going further, too. It has started preparing to invest a small portion of its own funds in euro-denominated tokenised public-sector and supranational securities, with those purchases planned to settle through Pontes.
For the tokenisation sector, the bigger story is infrastructure.
Issuance → trading → settlement → custody could increasingly become more automated as traditional finance moves onto DLT-based rails.
The question now is simple:
How quickly will major financial institutions actually use it at scale? 👀
$STRK
$INJ
$APT
#blockchain #Tokenization #digitaleuro #ECB
