The EU central bank's new wholesale platform connects DLT market infrastructure to its payment rails, separate from the retail digital euro pilot planned for 2027. The European Central Bank launched Pontes, a platform that lets eligible financial institutions settle tokenized-asset transactions in central-bank money. Pontes connects distributed-ledger platforms to the Eurosystem’s TARGET Services, offering an alternative to stablecoins and tokenized commercial-bank deposits for wholesale t…
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