🪙Everything You Need To Know About CBDCs!

EMTECH CEO joins me to talk about how Central Banks are building CBDCs and what the future may look like

Thinking Crypto Podcast

Jun 03, 2024

Hey Thinkers 💡

📰Here is the latest crypto news roundup:

Despite the setback of President Biden vetoing the repeal of SAB 121, the Crypto industry continues to ramp up its effort to donate to pro-crypto candidates. Coinbase has followed Ripple and a16z in donating $25 million to Fairshake, one of the PACs hoping to drive pro-crypto candidates into Congress this election - source
Democrats such as Congressman Ro Khanna continue to put pressure on Biden to support crypto. The Congressman tweeted out the following this morning “The White House should also support Patrick McHenry's FIT21 Act to bring regulatory clarity for blockchain and crypto and support those jobs here in the US. - source
The American Bankers Association wrote the Biden telling him to sign H.J. Res. 109 (SAB 121 repeal) into law hours before he vetoed it. - source
Solana saw nearly half a million tokens launched last month. This was largely due to the success of certain memecoins and the ability for anyone to launch a token in a few seconds. - source

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Everything You Need To Know About CBDCs!

CBDCs are being built by Central Banks around the world. How will these CBDCs be inserted into the economy and how will they co-exist with stablecoins?

Carmelle Cadet, the founder and CEO of EMTECH which is helping Central Banks modernize launch CBDCs, joined me to discuss this and more.

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Topics:

Carmelle’s time at IBM leading their Blockchain division
EMTECH helping Central Banks to modernize their systems
Using Hedera Hashgraph as the Blockchain for CBDCs
How Stablecoins will coexist with CBDCs
CBDCs and privacy
Fed Digital Dollar CBDC Pilot with the Digital Dollar Project

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