Lessons learned from the first retail CBDC deployments

Algorand, a blockchain company and central bank digital currency platform, join the Digital Monetary Institute’s editor, Lewis McLellan, to discuss the latest trends in CBDC development. Naveed Ihsanullah, vice-president of engineering research, Pietro Grassano, business solutions director for Europe, and Co-Pierre Georg, associate professor at the University of Cape Town and member of Algorand’s economic advisory committee, share their thoughts on some of the key themes in CBDCs: decentralisation, monetary sovereignty, privacy and financial inclusion. Many of their insights are drawn from their 2022 report, ‘Issuing Central Bank Digital Currency on Algorand’.