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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) can be defined as a virtual currency based on node network and digital encryption algorithm issued by a country which has a legal credit protection. CBDCs are supported by Distributed Ledger Technologies…

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a new form of money, issued by a country's or region's central bank, that can be used for a variety of payment scenarios. Depending on its concrete implementation, there are many participants in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Makan Rafiee , Lars Hupel

Blockchain technology has spawned a vast ecosystem of digital currencies with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) -- digital forms of fiat currency -- being one of them. An important feature of digital currencies is facilitating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Panagiotis Michalopoulos , Anthony Mack , Cameron Clark , Linus Chen , Johannes Sedlmeir , Andreas Veneris

The European Central Bank (ECB) is working on the "digital euro", an envisioned retail central bank digital currency for the Euro area. In this article, we take a closer look at the "digital euro FAQ", which provides answers to 26…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Joe Cannataci , Benjamin Fehrensen , Mikolai Gütschow , Özgür Kesim , Bernd Lucke

We analyze the risks to bank intermediation following the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) competing with commercial bank deposits as households' source of liquidity. We revisit the result in the literature regarding…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-17 Hanfeng Chen , Maria Elena Filippin

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is an emerging trend in digital payments, with the vast majority of central banks around the world researching, piloting, or even operating a digital version of cash. While design choices differ broadly,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Lars Hupel , Makan Rafiee

We present a scalable architecture for electronic retail payments via central bank digital currency and offer a solution to the perceived conflict between robust regulatory oversight and consumer affordances such as privacy and control. Our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Geoff Goodell , D. R. Toliver , Hazem Danny Nakib

As global governments intensify efforts to operationalize retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the imperative for architectures that preserve user privacy has never been more pronounced. This paper advances an existing retail…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-22 William Macpherson , Geoffrey Goodell

In this paper, we use a variety of machine learning methods to quantify the extent to which economic and technological factors are predictive of the progression of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) within a country, using as our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Toshiko Matsui , Daniel Perez

With the advancement of digital payment technologies, central banks worldwide have increasingly begun to explore the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). This paper presents a comprehensive review of the latest…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-15 Qifeng Tang , Yain-Whar Si

In an age of financial system digitisation and the increasing adoption of digital currencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have emerged as a focal point for technological innovation. Privacy compliance has become a key factor in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jeff Nijsse , Andrea Pinto

Tokenised money encompasses a broad range of digital monetary instruments issued on distributed ledger technology, including Central Bank Digital Currencys (CBDCs), deposit tokens, stablecoins, and decentralised protocol-based designs.…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-14 Thomas Ankenbrand , Denis Bieri , Stefano Ferrazzini , Johannes Hoehener

The accelerating digitization of economic activity has made information a dominant driver of market expectations, coordination, and systemic risk. Yet contemporary monetary systems remain anchored in architectures designed for material…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-25 Lalit Kumar Shukla

Crypto-assets and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are reshaping how value is exchanged in distributed computing environments. These systems combine cryptographic primitives, protocol design, and system architectures to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matteo Nardelli , Francesco De Sclavis , Michela Iezzi

In this paper, we reveal the attenuation mechanism of anchor of the commodity money from the perspective of logistics warehousing costs, and propose a novel Decayed Commodity Money (DCM) for the store of value across time and space.…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-23 Boliang Lin , Ruixi Lin

Current digital payment solutions are fragile and offer less privacy than traditional cash. Their critical dependency on an online service used to perform and validate transactions makes them void if this service is unreachable. Moreover,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Leon Kempen , Johan Pouwelse

Whilst academic, commercial and policy literature on financial exclusion is extensive and wide-ranging, there have been very few attempts to quantify and measure localised financial exclusion anywhere in the world. This is a subject of…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-14 George Sullivan , Luke Burns

We study the implications of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the transmission of household preference shocks and for welfare in a New Keynesian framework where the CBDC competes with bank deposits for household resources and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-12 Hanfeng Chen , Maria Elena Filippin

Retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) is seen as a key upgrade of the monetary system in the 21st century. However, privacy concerns are the main impediment to rCBDC's development and roll-out. On the one hand, the rights of people…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Wang Mong Tikvah Chan

We analyse financial stability and welfare impacts associated with the introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in a macroeconomic agent-based model. The model considers firms, banks, and households interacting on labour,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-10-29 Emilio Barucci , Andrea Gurgone , Giulia Iori , Michele Azzone