On December 13, BNP Paribas announced that it had completed a blockchain-based repurchase agreement transaction with the French Central Bank, marking the first tokenized transaction with a euro area central bank. The bank’s digital asset subsidiary, SG-Forge, deposited some 2020-issued bonds as collateral on the Ethereum blockchain in exchange for a digital currency issued by the French central bank on its DL3S blockchain.

(CoinDesk)

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