CBDC, wholesale and retail.

Reports the PBoC action plan that turns wallet e-CNY into interest-bearing bank deposit money from 1 January 2026, and gives end-November 2025 figures of 16.7 trillion yuan in transactions and 230 million personal wallets.

Launches the Shanghai centre's cross-border e-CNY payment, blockchain service and digital asset platforms, run by the PBoC Digital Currency Institute.

The state's digital finance agenda to 2027, which commits to actively and prudently promoting the e-CNY rather than private digital money. Dated 21 November 2024 and published on 27 November 2024.

The official English white paper on the e-CNY's goals, two-tier design, controllable anonymity and pilot results.

Commits the SFC to enhance VA licensing, allow regulated stablecoins to trade on licensed platforms and support tokenised gold and other RWAs, and the HKMA to add CBDC settlement to EnsembleTX.

Launches the EnsembleTX pilot for real-value tokenised deposit transactions, first settled via HKD RTGS and later in tokenised central bank money.

Concludes the retail e-HKD pilots and shifts e-HKD work to wholesale payments and tokenised asset settlement.

The BOJ's CBDC hub, covering its proof-of-concept phases and ongoing pilot programme; the English edition of its June 2026 pilot progress report was posted on 11 September 2026. The bank has not decided to issue a digital yen.

The BOK's CBDC page, covering its experiments and the joint FSC, FSS and BIS project behind Project Hangang. It says no issuance decision has been made.

Banks may apply to pilot deposit tokens, which remain bank deposits under the Banking Act, setting out use cases, issuance and redemption flows and customer protection; results will inform future rules.

Describes the central bank's retail CBDC prototype, sets no issuance date, and shifts focus to wholesale CBDC and bank deposit tokens; says Bitcoin and stablecoins are not money.

Official Bakong site with the member list, KHQR standard and integration documents for the national payment rail that crypto and stablecoin projects must work alongside.

Explains the design of Bakong, the NBC's blockchain-based payment system for riel and dollar transfers between banks and wallets, and its possible implications for monetary policy.

Announces completion of the first wholesale Digital Rupiah proof of concept on distributed ledger technology.

BI's Digital Rupiah hub, with the November 2022 white paper and later consultative papers. BI is starting with a wholesale CBDC before any retail rollout.

The sixth revision, effective 2 March 2026, allows digital currency ETFs that track spot prices of eligible digital currencies. Assets must be bought through SC-registered exchanges or FATF-compliant regulated foreign platforms, and coins built to impede traceability are excluded.

Explains that gains are taxable only if revenue in nature, judged by the badges of trade, and that digital currency disposals fall outside capital gains tax. It also covers mining, payments received in crypto and airdrops.

Proposes how tokenised shares, bonds and funds can be offered and dealt in under existing securities law, separate from the digital currency and token regime. Comments closed on 16 June 2025; no final framework had been issued by October 2026.

Consolidated BNM policy document that covers digital currency exchangers among other reporting institutions under AMLA. It took effect on 6 February 2024.

Reports completion of Project Dunbar prototypes for cross-border settlement in multiple wholesale CBDCs. It anchors BNM's wholesale CBDC work.

Sets out BNM's phased CBDC exploration, from cross-border and domestic wholesale CBDC to a possible retail CBDC. It frames how BNM weighs stablecoins and CBDC against monetary stability.

P.U.(A) 12/2019, in force from 15 January 2019 and amended by P.U.(A) 6/2025, prescribes qualifying digital currencies and digital tokens as securities. It is the legal hook for all SC regulation of crypto.

First live issuance of Singapore dollar wholesale CBDC, used by DBS, OCBC and UOB. MAS plans a follow-on trial of tokenised MAS Bills.

Builds on Project Orchid to enable settlement in tokenised bank liabilities and well-regulated stablecoins across currencies, with members including Circle, DBS, OCBC and UOB.

Reports on the retail CBDC pilot run with financial service providers and states the BOT has no immediate plan to issue a retail CBDC.

Announced the retail e-rupee pilot from 1 December 2022 with a closed user group of banks, customers and merchants.

Set out RBI's design for a wholesale and retail e-rupee and its view that CBDC is a safer alternative to private cryptocurrencies.

The NBK's CBDC page with white papers from the pilot through the first implementation phase. The digital tenge now funds National Fund projects.

Sets the digital som path from proof of concept and prototype to a pilot with real payments and then production.

Reports a CBB-backed pilot of real-time US dollar payments over J.P. Morgan's permissioned ledger, which the CBB said it would look to extend to CBDC work.

Invites vendors, technologists and academics to assess technologies that could deliver the digital shekel design. Responses were due by 30 June 2025; the Bank has not announced an issuance decision.

The high-level design of a possible retail digital shekel, which would not be programmable and would allow limited anonymous payments. Public feedback closed on 15 May 2025; no decision to issue has been made.

The State Comptroller's audit of how the Tax Authority taxes and tracks digital currency gains, finding gaps in enforcement and legislation (Hebrew).

Confirms that tokens used as a substitute for currency, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and CBDCs, cannot be issued or serviced under the framework and that the 2019 restrictions still apply.

Explains the QCB wholesale CBDC programme: a DLT platform for selected banks, starting with digital government bonds, with a first phase in 2024 and no retail participation for now.

Moves 23 projects from 12 banks and 6 payment firms into development and sandbox testing of the digital lira, including 15 tokenisation and 17 programmable payment use cases.

Sets out the Digital Dirham's two-tier, non-interest-bearing design with offline and smart-contract features, and says the official launch will come in the near term.

Launches the multi-CBDC platform for wholesale cross-border payments and records the first Digital Dirham payment to China, worth AED 50 million, in January 2024.

Starts the CBDC programme with G42 Cloud and R3, covering mBridge, a bilateral bridge with India and domestic wholesale and retail issuance.

Reaffirms that there is currently no clear public interest case for a retail CBDC in Australia, after public focus groups found little demand.

Consults on how the RBA's settlement system could support tokenised assets, including stablecoin issuer access to central bank reserves and tokenised reserves. Submissions close 30 October 2026.

Reports on 20 wholesale tokenised asset use cases settled with ESA balances, pilot wholesale CBDC, deposit tokens and stablecoins. Sets next steps including a digital market infrastructure sandbox.

Assented to on 10 December 2024. Schedule 6, in force from 31 March 2026, replaces digital currency exchange rules with a broader virtual asset service provider regime.