China’s dynamic: (1) the pilot of digital RMB will be expanded again. On March 31, the Symposium on digital RMB R & D pilot work held by the people’s Bank of China proposed to expand the pilot scope in an orderly manner, and add six cities hosting the Asian Games in Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Fujian Province, Fuzhou and Xiamen, Fujian Province and Zhejiang Province to the existing pilot areas. Beijing and Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province will host the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics After the pilot of the winter Paralympic Games, it will be turned into a pilot area. (2) Guangzhou Digital RMB application scenario accelerated landing. (3) Shenzhen: support the listing and financing of high-quality financial technology enterprises and cultivate the digital RMB industry ecology. (4) China Environmental Protection completed the first transaction of “blockchain technology certified carbon asset transaction”. The transaction uses the traceable, traceable and tamper proof characteristics of blockchain technology to creatively solve the existing problems of Carbon Asset certification from the bottom logic outside China. (5) The Innovation Laboratory of “carbon peak, carbon neutralization, digital intelligence and blockchain + energy” was established. China Mobile Research Institute, China Quality Certification Center, Sinochem environment Holding Co., Ltd. and financial one account jointly held the “national blockchain application innovation pilot Seminar on blockchain + energy”, and launched the “carbon peak carbon neutralization digital intelligence and blockchain + energy” innovation laboratory.
Overseas dynamics: (1) Robin Hood plans to use lightning network for bitcoin trading. Robin Hood is planning to add the bitcoin lightning network to its platform to speed up bitcoin transactions. Robin Hood said that eligible users on its beta encryption waiting list can now send and receive encrypted currency through its encrypted wallet function. (2) Honduras special economic zone adopts bitcoin as legal tender: Honduras special economic zone “Prospera” announced that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been adopted as legal tender. (3) CEO of Starbucks: he will be involved in NFT business before the end of 2022. (4) German authorities destroyed the Russian dark network market and seized bitcoin worth $25 million.
Risk tips
The implementation process of digital RMB and CBDC in various countries is less than expected; Regulatory uncertainty of blockchain application; Blockchain infrastructure construction was not as expected.
