The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is planning to test digital yuan on Meituan Dianping’s food delivery platform with 435 million users.
It has been reported that Meituan had been in talks with the research arm of China’s central bank, the Digital Currency Research Institute, regarding the use-cases for its central bank digital currency (CBDC). Both parties are yet to specify the details about their partnership.
However, the Tencent-backed video streaming platform Bilibili is also reportedly in discussions with the PBoC to test the digital yuan.
Meituan Dianping is a Beijing-based food delivery platform that currently boasts of more than 435 million active users and billions of dollars of daily transactions. This creates a huge opportunity for the mass adoption of the digital yuan, which is also referred to as the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP).
435 million users of a Chinese food delivery platform may get to test the digital yuan https://t.co/CWR01ZgflG — Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) July 15, 2020
As per the report, the PBoC had already clarified that it doesn’t have a specific launch date for the digital yuan, but the central bank and its research wing have been increasing their efforts to explore the use cases of the CBDC in the real world.
Thus, China’s progress toward testing and launching its digital currency has only gained more speed during the pandemic.
Source: Cointelegraph | Image: Medium
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