The RBI's first retail e-rupee pilot, its model of a CBDC, started on December 1, 2022.
Complete CBDC customers in India are about 7 million.
Earlier, Pati had mentioned that the pilot will make use of the wholesale section of its central financial institution digital forex (CBDC) because the underlying layer for the train. The RBI is collaborating with “a couple of banks” on the venture.
Digital tokenisation is understood to make transactions sooner, cheaper, and safer. Tokenisation, in a monetary context, refers to representing a real-world monetary asset in digital type (a “token”) on a safe ledger (usually blockchain or distributed ledger know-how). In case of deposit tokenisation, deposits held at banks could be represented as tokens, which may then be used, transferred, or settled extra fluidly throughout methods.