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India’s Digital Rupee CBDC Pilot Expands to Over 50,000 Testers

Published 13/02/2023, 13:27
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  • India’s digital rupee CBDC pilot expands to over 50,000 testers.
  • Rabi Sankar wants the process to happen gradually and slowly.
  • Data obtained from the digital rupee app indicates that India’s CBDC program is now at capacity.

According to local news outlet The Economic Times, India’s CBDC experiment has attracted 50,000 customers, and 5,000 merchants since the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the digital rupee test last year.

At a policy news conference, RBI deputy governor Rabi Sankar announced the first milestones of India’s digital currency. He emphasized that the government intended to go through with CBDC testing as smoothly as possible.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which supervises the production of digital currency and the use cases and the deployment of the CBDC, alleged that a cautious approach should be maintained towards the broader digital assets industry.

Deputy governor Rabi Sankar says that the team wants the process to happen but wants the process to happen gradually and slowly. He states:

We are in no hurry to make something happen so quickly.

The most recent notification and information from an official digital rupee ap…

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