With gold up and the price of bitcoin treading water, today we’re talking academic piracy and Cambodia’s blockchain plot to escape the dollar. Bitcoin...

According to a Coindesk report published on June 19, 2020, the National Bank of Cambodia is poised to go ahead with its blockchain-based payments system dubbed...

Through the DCEP, China will be able to open doors to overseas residents, allowing consumers and merchants to use RMB internationally....

The National Bank of Cambodia revealed the technical details of its upcoming blockchain-based payments system dubbed ‘Project Bakong’ this week. The central bank, which...

The South-East Asian country of Cambodia is looking to a distributed ledger technology (DLT) network to reinvent their country’s payments and rid themselves of their US dollar reliance.  While at the Consensus Distributed event, the assistant governor and director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia, Serey Chea, revealed the initial plans and set out the […]

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Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) were the talk of the industry in early 2020 after China’s state bank, the People’s Bank of China released its digital currency electronic payment (DCEP).  But what are central bank digital currencies? Here is our guide on what the currency is and the outlook for the different central banks in […]

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The Cambodia Blockchain platform is steadily being rolled out, with support coming from 11 commercial banks and the National Bank of Cambodia expected...

The National Bank of Cambodia is preparing to launch a new central bank digital currency (CBDC) called Bakong. The bank had started testing...