Ripple to demonstrate tokenization in HKMA e-HKD pilot program using new CBDC platform

Ripple will take part within the Hong Kong Financial Authority’s (HKMA’s) digital Hong Kong greenback (e-HKD) central financial institution digital forex (CBDC) pilot program by showcasing an actual property asset tokenization resolution. The corporate will reveal its new CBDC platform on the similar time. 

Ripple will accomplice with Taiwan’s Fubon Financial institution and others to display fairness launch with tokenized belongings utilizing a retail model of the e-HKD CBDC. Fairness launch, also referred to as a reverse mortgage, is the apply of a lender letting a house owner entry the fairness of their residence, with fee coming due solely when the home is bought or the borrower dies.

Tokenization can cut back friction within the fairness launch course of and pace throughput for banks, Ripple mentioned in a press release. The corporate is collaborating within the so-called second rail of this system, which “will take deep dives into use circumstances in addition to software, implementation, and design points regarding e-HKD,” according to the HKMA.

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“Experiences popping out of the Rail 2 pilots will issue into any choices by HKMA to go dwell with an e-HKD at a later date (Rail 3),” Ripple vice chairman of central financial institution engagements and CBDCs James Wallis advised Cointelegraph in a written Q&A.

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The pilot undertaking will run on Ripple’s new CBDC product — the Ripple CBDC Platform — utilizing a brand new personal ledger with XRP Ledger know-how and enhanced performance, together with offline transactions and non-smartphone use. Wallis added:

“All of the pilot program partnerships that Ripple beforehand introduced, together with Montenegro, Palau and Bhutan, will leverage the CBDC Platform.”

Hong Kong started its CBDC research in 2017. “Whereas it seems that e-HKD may not have an imminent position to play within the present retail fee market, we consider potential use circumstances for e-HKD can emerge shortly,” the HKMA concluded in a current paper.

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