{"id":587089,"date":"2026-04-21T09:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/bank-of-korea-governor-backs-cbdcs-deposit-tokens-in-first-address\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:53:46","slug":"bank-of-korea-governor-backs-cbdcs-deposit-tokens-in-first-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/bank-of-korea-governor-backs-cbdcs-deposit-tokens-in-first-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Korea governor backs CBDCs, deposit tokens in first address"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Bank of Korea governor Shin Hyun-song supported CBDCs and deposit tokens in his first address, while stablecoins were notably absent from his remarks.<\/p>\n

The newly appointed Governor of the Bank of Korea, Shin Hyun-song, has voiced support for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and tokenized deposits in his first public address.<\/p>\n

Shin, who began his four-year term after an inauguration ceremony in Seoul on Tuesday, said<\/a> the central bank will advance the second phase of \u201cProject Hangang,\u201d a Bank of Korea-led pilot project to test a blockchain-based, wholesale CBDC system.<\/p>\n

He also pointed to international cooperation efforts, including the \u201cAgora Project,\u201d an international collaborative initiative launched in April 2024<\/a> by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and seven central banks to explore the tokenization of cross-border payments. Shin said these initiatives \u201cwill elevate the status of the Korean won in the digital payment environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New Bank of Korea governor Shin Hyun-song supported CBDCs and deposit tokens in his first address, while stablecoins were notably absent from his remarks. The newly appointed Governor of the Bank of Korea, Shin Hyun-song, has voiced support for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and tokenized deposits in his first public address. Shin, who began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-587089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}