{"id":660702,"date":"2026-09-22T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/ecb-to-put-its-own-money-into-tokenized-securities-via-new-pontes-dlt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:53:45","slug":"ecb-to-put-its-own-money-into-tokenized-securities-via-new-pontes-dlt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/ecb-to-put-its-own-money-into-tokenized-securities-via-new-pontes-dlt\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB to put its own money into tokenized securities via new Pontes DLT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M34CG9DD6TZFV9RKTHF4AV1Q\/hi-eu-coin.jpg\" alt=\"ECB to put its own money into tokenized securities via new Pontes DLT\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ECB aims to gain firsthand DLT market experience by buying tokenized public-sector securities and settling the trades through Pontes.<\/p>\n<p>The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to invest a \u201csmall portion\u201d of its own funds in tokenized public-sector securities.<\/p>\n<p>The purchases will be settled in central bank money through Pontes, the Eurosystem\u2019s settlement <a href=\"https:\/\/ct.com\/news\/eurosystem-central-bank-money-tokenized-finance\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">system for distributed ledger technology-based transactions<\/a> launched Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The ECB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/pr\/date\/2026\/html\/ecb.pr260921~e754847a7b.en.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a separate announcement Monday that the initiative will give it firsthand experience across the full investment lifecycle, including trade execution, settlement, systems and portfolio management.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ecb-money-tokenized-securities-pontes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ECB aims to gain firsthand DLT market experience by buying tokenized public-sector securities and settling the trades through Pontes. The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to invest a \u201csmall portion\u201d of its own funds in tokenized public-sector securities. The purchases will be settled in central bank money through Pontes, the Eurosystem\u2019s settlement system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-660702","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\/660702","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=660702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}