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Kazakhstan pays for rail line to China using programmable CBDC
Kazakhstan has launched a pilot project to use its digital tenge central bank digital currency (CBDC) to pay for construction on a rail line to China. The project uses “marked,” or programmable, digital tenge to see that allocated funds reach the intended …