BIS Unified Ledger Explained | Tokenisation, Wholesale CBDC, and Future Money

What happens when central bank money, tokenised deposits, and real-world assets all live on the same programmable platform?

In this video, we break down the BIS Annual Economic Report 2023 chapter "Blueprint for the future monetary system: improving the old, enabling the new" and explain the core architecture behind the unified ledger.

Topics covered:

- What tokenisation actually means

- Why the BIS treats tokens as executable objects

- How the "ramp" connects traditional databases to programmable platforms

- Why wholesale CBDC acts as the settlement anchor

- Why the BIS prefers tokenised deposits over stablecoins

- How the unified ledger is structured

- Atomic settlement, DvP, PvP, and trade finance use cases

- The legal, technical, governance, and privacy challenges

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction and disclaimer

00:30 Why the BIS blueprint matters

01:30 Tokenisation and executable objects

02:59 The ramp between legacy assets and programmable platforms

04:05 Settlement finality and wholesale CBDC

05:13 Tokenised deposits vs. stablecoins

05:59 Why tokenised deposits preserve the two-tier monetary system

07:37 The unified ledger architecture

09:04 Ledger partitions and confidentiality

09:16 Atomic settlement

09:51 DvP and PvP settlement

10:41 Trade finance on a unified ledger

11:04 The four implementation challenges

12:12 Final synthesis

12:42 Closing

Source

Bank for International Settlements, Annual Economic Report 2023, Chapter III:

"Blueprint for the future monetary system: improving the old, enabling the new"

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