{"id":74252,"date":"2023-02-17T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74252"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:59:53","slug":"bank-of-russia-sets-date-for-digital-ruble-pilot-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bank-of-russia-sets-date-for-digital-ruble-pilot-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Russia sets date for digital ruble pilot launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1 April, the Bank of Russia will launch <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-to-begin-settling-payments-with-the-digital-ruble-in-2023\">a pilot project<\/a> for digital ruble operations with the participation of 13 banks, according to first deputy governor Olga Skorobogatova, as reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/17074007\\\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the initial phase, the regulator will begin testing operations between individuals and payments to retail and service enterprises.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>The pilot will run on real transactions and real users, but will be limited to selected clients of 13 banks that have already technically confirmed their readiness,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She added that ordinary customers will not participate in testing at the initial stage, and after its completion the regulator will determine further scaling of digital ruble operations.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator also allowed the use of the digital <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/rosbank-first-to-exchange-tokenised-gold-for-digital-rubles\">token backed by gold<\/a> in international settlements.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on 16 January the State Duma Council put for consideration in the first reading <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/digital-ruble-bill-placed-on-first-reading-agenda\">digital ruble bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype launch of the Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc\">CBDC<\/a> platform took place <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-banks-begin-testing-operations-with-the-digital-ruble\">in January 2022<\/a> with the participation of five banks. Together with the regulator they <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/central-bank-of-russia-reports-first-digital-ruble-transfers-between-citizens\">tested the asset issuance<\/a>, opened digital wallets, and transfers between citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1 April, the Bank of Russia will launch a pilot project for digital ruble operations with the participation of 13 banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74253,"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":[345,1095,1165,27],"class_list":["post-74252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bank-of-russia","tag-cbdc","tag-digital-ruble","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"6","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74252","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=74252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74254,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74252\/revisions\/74254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}