šŸ”„South Korea’s Hana Bank to Work on CBDC and Stablecoin Alternatives

South Korea’s KEB Hana Bank is set to work with the central Bank of Korea (BOK) on the latter’s CBDC pilot and stablecoin alternatives, such as tokenized deposits.

Per the newspaper Maeil Kyungjae, Hana Bank is now ā€œactively participatingā€ in the BOK’s ongoing CBDC Proof of Concept project.

The newspaper noted that the BOK and Hana will ā€œactively participate in the preparationā€ of a ā€œcurrency system based on blockchain technology.ā€

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