Those projects often assume banks or other payment companies would intermediate the service. Crucially, Aurum also tested out a system where regular shoppers don’t get their hands directly on CBDC, but instead use private stablecoins – in the same way modern-day card payments use commercial bank money backed up by central bank guarantees.
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