Most of crypto Twitter doesn’t remember that IBM built one of the first production-grade cross-border payment systems — World Wire — on Stellar in 2019, with 47 currencies and 72 countries. IBM scaled that work back, but the 2026 IBM Institute for Business Value outlook for banking and financial markets just doubled down on tokenization. With DTCC’s Stellar connection now public, the historical IBM-Stellar bet looks very different in hindsight.
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s final Project Acacia report puts Hedera at the heart of its wholesale CBDC and tokenization pilots — used in four of the program’s use cases, including Australian Payment Plus, Imperium Markets, and a settlement infrastructure powering trials with NAB, Westpac, Colonial First State, Bank of Queensland, and Australian Super.
Chainlink has joined Microsoft and others to provide support for Brazil’s own CBDC (Central bank digital currency) pilot. The new…
