{"id":32273,"date":"2020-11-24T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32273"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:52:36","slug":"kazakhstans-central-bank-eyes-issuing-its-own-digital-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kazakhstans-central-bank-eyes-issuing-its-own-digital-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan&#8217;s central bank eyes issuing its own digital currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The National Bank of Kazakhstan is studying the possibility of introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to the <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/nationalbank.kz\/ru\/news\/press-relizy\/10365\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> of the regulator.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">At this stage, experts are developing a paper outlining various scenarios for issuing a CBDC in Kazakhstan. It is expected to be presented in the second half of 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Following the discussion of the document, the central bank is prepared to launch a pilot project for the phased rollout of the CBDC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The National Bank is part of an international research group on digital currencies, together with 28 other central banks, the press service stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, proposals for Kazakhstan&#8217;s national digital currency were voiced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In June, the President of Kazakhstan signed a bill \u201cOn Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Regulation of Digital Technologies.\u201d According to it, digital assets are recognised as property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Read more about changes to cryptocurrency regulation in Kazakhstan in ForkLog&#8217;s exclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-embedded-content\\\" data-secret=\\\"K7QXrdUDL2\\\">\n<p>Ban on Bitcoin and the legalization of mining: features of cryptocurrency regulation in Kazakhstan<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\\\"lazy\\\" class=\\\"wp-embedded-content\\\" sandbox=\\\"allow-scripts\\\" security=\\\"restricted\\\" style=\\\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\\\" title=\\\"\u201cBan on Bitcoin and the legalization of mining: features of cryptocurrency regulation in Kazakhstan\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/zapret-bitkoina-i-legalizatsiya-majninga-osobennosti-regulirovaniya-kriptovalyut-v-kazakhstane\/embed#?secret=O5p9yV44ad#?secret=K7QXrdUDL2\\\" data-secret=\\\"K7QXrdUDL2\\\" width=\\\"500\\\" height=\\\"282\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" marginwidth=\\\"0\\\" marginheight=\\\"0\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank of Kazakhstan is examining the possibility of introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to the regulator&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1095,153],"class_list":["post-32273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cbdc","tag-kazakhstan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32275,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions\/32275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}