Bank of Korea Could Launch Live Deposit Token Trials as Early as September

South Korea's Bank of Korea is preparing live trials of deposit tokens—digital representations of bank deposits settled on distributed ledger technology—as early as September under Project Hangang, its wholesale CBDC pilot. The central bank is also piloting tokenized government bonds linked to its CBDC infrastructure in 2025, signalling a strategic shift toward modernising settlement infrastructure.

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