According to Techub News, the official website of the Slovenian government announced that Slovenia has issued the first digital sovereign bond in the European Union. The bond was issued and distributed by BNP Paribas. The Slovenian Ministry of Finance said that the bond has a nominal size of 30 million euros (32.5 million U.S. dollars), a coupon rate of 3.65%, and a maturity date of November 25. BNP Paribas used its Neobonds platform when issuing the bond on July 25.

Neobonds is BNP Paribas’ private tokenization platform based on the Canton network.