Regulated Liability Network identifies proof-of-concept case with digital pound
The Regulated Liability Network (RLN) has completed its United Kingdom discovery phase and is prepared to proceed to a use case with retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to its latest report. The RLN project seeks to accommodate central bank, commercial bank and regulated non-bank transactions operating within “partitions” on a single network.
The RLN is a regulated financial marketplace infrastructure in the U.K. with contributors from financial institutions worldwide. It is supported by the advocacy group UK Finance.
The RLN discovery phase examined three potential use cases for the network — consumer domestic payment, wholesale cross-border payment and securities settlement — and settled on the first case to pursue a proof of concept. The report noted many domestic payment uses that could be tested and cited the list presented in the results of Project Rosalind as examples. The report said:
The report found that the RLN provided several benefits for domestic payment. It helped provide consistency between CBDC and commercial bank money, thus helping preserve the singularity of the currency. It could also help reduce authorized push payment fraud, that is, payments authorized to fraudulent merchants, and give consumers more control in case of undelivered goods. Finally, it would also improve settlement time.
The RLN would use a native settlement token and thus contain tokenized regulated money and digital assets on the same ledger. Tokenized liabilities (money) would remain claims on the issuer, rather than on the RLN.
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The project completed a pilot program for wholesale cross-border payments in conjunction with the New York
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