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Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), Hyperledger Foundation, and The Digital Dollar Project Team Up to Drive Open Development and Collaboration for CBDCs

May 23, 2022

Open Digital Currency Initiative: Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), Hyperledger Foundation, and The Digital Dollar Project Team Up to Drive Open Development and Collaboration for CBDCs
By Gabriele Columbro, FINOS; Karen Ottoni, Hyperledger Foundation; and Jennifer Lassiter, The Digital Dollar . . . Project
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) has the power to transform economies — connecting people, governments, businesses, and organizations locally and globally through technology that could not have been imagined even 20 years ago, and with more advances on the way.
Experimentation is central to answering any question, especially one with as many stakeholders, variables, and “unknowns” as CBDCs. Without open source development and collaboration between stakeholders, each will have to invest significant resources to build code independently and will have no way to avoid duplicating efforts or mistakes.

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Digital Dollar in Focus: Accenture & Former CFTC Chair Team Up to Launch Pilots; Ether Record High

May 24, 2021

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Central banks are pivoting toward digital currencies — here’s why

May 24, 2021

The U.S. nonprofit Digital Dollar Project is set to launch five pilot programs over the next year to test the potential uses of a U.S. central bank digital currency. Christopher Giancarlo, Former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and David Treat, Global Blockchain Lead at . . . Accenture, join Yahoo Finance Live to discuss.

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WEF 20 | Davos Dialogue: Digital Dollar Project With Chris Giancarlo

May 17, 2021

Direct from Davos 2020: Watch our Global Blockchain Lead David Treat and the Chairman of CFTC Chris Giancarlo have a candid conversation on the Digital Dollar Project.

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“Crypto Dad” Chris Giancarlo Talks About The New Digitization Of Value

May 17, 2021

Former CFTC Chris Giancarlo sees the current set of financial systems – the older systems associated with the pre-digital age – as hopelessly obsolete. He aims to fix them.

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The Digital Dollar Live!

May 17, 2021

Hear from industry leaders as they discuss the possible CBDC pathways forward and explore the policies, pilots and technical design considerations and approach.

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Nonprofit Digital Dollar Project Plans Five Tests For Concept

May 3, 2021

With cryptocurrencies like bitcoin beset by price spikes (and slides), a nonprofit organization plans to test the concept of a U.S. central bank digital currency in at least five pilot programs. The U.S. nonprofit Digital Dollar Project said Monday (May 3) it will roll out five pilot programs over . . . the next year to test the potential uses — and advantages — of a U.S. central bank digital currency.

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Why Chris Giancarlo Considers A Digital Dollar Mission Critical For The World

April 26, 2020

Below is an in-depth interview with J. Christopher Giancarlo, Senior Counsel at Willkie Farr and Gallagher and former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in which he reveals his vision for a ‘true digital dollar.’

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Former Regulator Known As ‘Crypto Dad’ To Launch Digital-Dollar Think Tank

January 16, 2020

A former top American financial regulator dubbed “Crypto Dad” for his embrace of cryptocurrencies is setting up a think tank to promote the idea of digitizing the U.S. dollar.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, who stepped down as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission last year, said he was . . . creating the nonprofit Digital Dollar Foundation to study converting the dollar into a fully electronic currency based on blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin.

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