5 digital yuan questions for the Winter Olympics
Over a year and a half since the start of pilot tests of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), China...
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Zhejiang urges its cities to host the next digital yuan pilots
China’s Zhejiang wants six of its cities to compete for the next digital yuan pilots, which may open the door...
Guangzhou will advance digital yuan, blockchain pilots in 2022
Guangdong Province’s 2022 Government Report says its capital city Guangzhou will become a digital yuan testbed and a blockchain innovation...
Lack of audience won’t stop digital yuan Olympics showcase
The digital yuan is undergoing its final preparations in the leadup to the Beijing Winter Olympics, despite the expected absence...
Digital yuan transactions surge, reach $11.24B last year
The numbers are in: digital yuan’s historical transactions reached 87.565 billion yuan (US$11.238 billion) as of the end of 2021,...
$1.5B worth of digital yuan transacted in Beijing last year
Residents in Beijing recorded 9.6 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) worth of digital yuan transactions in 2021, after several rounds of...
China’s digital yuan wallet gets 16 million downloads in debut week
China’s pilot e-CNY wallet application, currently available in a dozen major cities, topped 16 million downloads in the first week...
Messaging App Giant WeChat to Support Digital Yuan Payments (Report)
China’s leading messaging application – WeChat Pay – will reportedly begin supporting the e-CNY. The app has more than one...
WeChat Introducing Digital Yuan Support
WeChat will reportedly begin offering support for China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan. Owned by Tencent, China’s...
China’s CBDC digital yuan app now publicly accessible
China’s central bank has made public a pilot version of an app for the e-CNY — the world’s first major...
