Central Bank Digital Currency Pilots
Central-bank digital currency deployments and pilots that test sovereign digital money, payment rails, identity, settlement rules, privacy controls, and programmable finance infrastructure.
Core metadata
- ID: central_bank_digital_currency_pilots
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 2020 (exact)
- Region: The Bahamas / global central-bank digital currency pilots
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: emerging
Prerequisites
- Banking (banking)
- Digital Identity Systems (digital_identity_systems)
- Digital Payment Gateways (digital_payment_gateways)
Dependents
Fields
Field lanes
- Finance & Markets: Financial Computing
Node sources
- Digital Bahamian Dollar SandDollar (Central Bank of The Bahamas, 2020, official_agency) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 77%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 2
- primary_source: 1
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Payment Gateways (digital_payment_gateways) | commercial_or_scaling_dependency | 76% | expert_inference | CBDCs need production digital payment rails and merchant/user access paths; gateway-style payment infrastructure is a scaling dependency, not a blockchain requirement. |
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| Digital Identity Systems (digital_identity_systems) | enabling | 72% | expert_inference | Regulated CBDC access depends on identity, wallet tiers, and compliance controls, though implementations differ by country. |
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| Banking (banking) | required | 82% | primary_source | A CBDC is issued by a central bank and integrated with the regulated banking/payment system. |
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