FrankfurtThe ECB will hold blockchain-based bonds on its own books.

That gives it direct exposure to blockchain markets, though it has not set the size or timing.

Pontes, the Eurosystem platform, settles wholesale blockchain trades in central bank money, linking the ECB’s payment system to tokenized markets.

Pontes goes fully live by 2028, starting with euro-area government and agency securities.

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ECB directly invests central bank reserves in blockchain-based tokenized securities through new Pontes settlement platform

Sources: CoinDesk