The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is looking at a potential CBDC from a wide perspective.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has launched the second phase of the digital Hong Kong dollar (e-HKD) pilot study with 21 financial institutions working on 11 use cases for the central bank digital currency and tokenized deposits. In light of the broadening scope of the project, the HKMA is renaming it Project e-HKD+.
The new phase of the project will have its own sandbox and last about a year.
Project e-HKD+ will focus on three themes: settlement of tokenized assets, programmability and offline payments. Many of the use cases are highly generalized and several of them do not reference the e-HKD at all. For example:
