project

Pontes

European Central Bank initiative to link commercial distributed ledger platforms to the Eurosystem's TARGET settlement services so that transactions on those platforms can settle in tokenised central bank money.

Current clusters

invest2 publishers

ECB's Pontes settles tokenised assets in central bank money eight hours a day

Thirteen banks including Deutsche Bank and Santander went live on September 21 with four ledger operators, and the ECB will put part of its own 23 billion euro portfolio into tokenised public sector debt.

Publishers:cointelegraph.comcryptobriefing.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption48
Hype gap+22
Incentives60
Confidence55

invest1 publisher

Cipollone dates Europe's wholesale tokenised euro three years ahead of the retail one

A speech the BIS published on September 15 puts the Pontes settlement link live this month, Appia's market integration in 2028 and a possible first digital euro issuance in 2029, with the legislation that date depends on due by late this year.

Publishers:cryptobriefing.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence45