{"id":139245,"date":"2025-10-28T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139245"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:00:13","slug":"hong-kongs-e-hkd-better-suited-to-wholesale-use-than-retail-hkma-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139245","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s e-HKD better suited to wholesale use than retail, HKMA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has decided to focus development of the e-HKD on wholesale applications because the central bank digital currency (CBDC) has stronger potential value in large transactions than in daily retail use.<br \/>\nThe city\u2019s de facto central bank announced the decision on Tuesday after a second phase of e-HKD trials that tested its usability and efficiency in both retail and wholesale scenarios over the past year. A CBDC is a digital version of a fiat currency built using&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/banking-finance\/article\/3330604\/hong-kongs-e-hkd-better-suited-wholesale-use-retail-hkma-says?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has decided to focus development of the e-HKD on wholesale applications because the central bank digital currency (CBDC)&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}