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Bank of England Teams Up with Multiple Companies for Distributed Ledger Settlement Trial

Bank of England Teams Up with Multiple Companies for Distributed Ledger Settlement Trial

BlockBeats News, February 11th, the Bank of England has officially launched the “Synchronisation Lab” pilot project, conducting a six-month experiment with non-real funds to test the possibility of synchronizing central bank digital currency with tokenized assets for atomic settlement, thereby modernizing the UK’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) infrastructure. The Bank of England has selected 18 participating institutions, including Chainlink, Swift, LSEG, and other well-known enterprises and fintech companies. Chainlink will be responsible for testing a decentralized solution to achieve synchronous settlement of central bank digital currency with securities on a distributed ledger, while other participants will focus on diverse use cases such as tokenized government bonds, conditional payments, collateral optimization, foreign exchange settlement, and digital currency issuance.

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