According to BlockBeats, on July 30, Cointelegraph reported that Slovenia 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 a distributed ledger technology (DLT) tool that uses Digital Asset’s Daml language on the Canton blockchain, with settlement taking place on the French bank’s DL3S interoperable system.