eRupee Recorded Rs. 5.7 Crore in Transactions in First Four Months of Retail Trials, Says RBI: Report

eRupee Recorded Rs. 5.7 Crore in Transactions in First Four Months of Retail Trials, Says RBI: Report

eRupee, the Indian central bank digital currency (CBDC), was reportedly used to process transactions worth Rs. 5.70 crore in the first four months since it entered the retail trials phase. The information was disclosed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as it responded to an RTI query initiated by…

India’s eRupee CBDC to Get Offline Payments Feature, Programmability Tweaks: RBI Governor

India’s eRupee CBDC to Get Offline Payments Feature, Programmability Tweaks: RBI Governor

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is looking to adopt offline strategies to ensure that the eRupee CBDC enters the financial system of rural and remote parts of India. RBI governor Shaktikanta Das reportedly stated that the central bank plans to experiment with offline solutions to drive the adoption of…

RBI Assigns CBDC Expansion Targets to Banks, Aims for 1 Million Daily Transactions by December: Report

RBI Assigns CBDC Expansion Targets to Banks, Aims for 1 Million Daily Transactions by December: Report

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is aiming to clock one million transactions in India’s under-trial CBDC, the eRupee, daily by December. In order to accelerate number of CBDC transactions, the RBI is reportedly giving targets to banks to facilitate a minimum number of transactions in the form of the…

Existing UPI QR Codes Could Begin Processing Transactions in eRupee CBDC: RBI’s T Rabi Sankar

Existing UPI QR Codes Could Begin Processing Transactions in eRupee CBDC: RBI’s T Rabi Sankar

India is planning to introducing its own blockchain-based eRupee CBDC for commercial use. The country is mulling more ways to make this process simple for adoption. On Thursday, May 8, RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar hinted that existing UPI QR codes could become interoperable with the Indian CBDC in…