ECB plans to buy tokenized bonds with its own funds
The European Central Bank rolled out a new system to link its payment system to blockchain-based financial markets.
Source: CoinDesk
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DW NOTE
The ECB will buy tokenized bonds with reserves and settle them through Pontes, a platform connecting its payment system to blockchain markets. This is not adoption — it is control architecture. Central banks cannot allow a parallel settlement layer they do not operate, so they are building the on-ramp themselves and positioning as anchor buyers to ensure institutional flow routes through their infrastructure, not around it.