{"id":46974,"date":"2021-07-30T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46974"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:04:24","slug":"zelensky-signs-law-enabling-the-central-bank-to-issue-a-digital-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/zelensky-signs-law-enabling-the-central-bank-to-issue-a-digital-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky signs law enabling the central bank to issue a digital currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/news\/glava-derzhavi-pidpisav-zakon-pro-platizhni-poslugi-69849\">\u043f\u043e\u0434\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043b<\/a> the law &#8216;On Payment Services&#8217;, allowing the National Bank to issue its own digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian central bank has also been granted the right to launch a regulatory sandbox to test services and tools based on &#8216;innovative technologies&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the law expands the requirements on payment service providers, which must use strong authentication of users in certain cases.<\/p>\n<p>The document also distinguishes between central bank digital currencies and electronic money.<\/p>\n<p>The Verkhovna Rada <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-passes-law-regulating-the-issuance-of-cbdcs\">passed the law<\/a> on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, Ukraine unveiled the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-unveils-three-year-strategy-to-develop-the-cryptocurrency-market-through-2024\">three-year strategy for developing the virtual assets market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law &#8216;On Payment Services&#8217;, allowing the National Bank to issue its own digital currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46975,"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":[1095,809,36,16],"class_list":["post-46974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cbdc","tag-central-banks","tag-regulation","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974","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=46974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46976,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46974\/revisions\/46976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}