The Bank of Central African States (also known as Banque des États de l’Afrique) – the entity responsible for serving the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Chad, the Central African Republic, as well as Cameroon – could be nearer to launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as its board is reportedly urging it so.

Board Pushes Bank of Central African States toward CBDC Launch

As per a report published by Bloomberg on Friday, an email was sent by the board, suggesting to the local bank that it should release a digital currency while endeavoring to upgrade the payment structures as well as advocate for additional financial inclusion. The Central African Republic (CAR) provided its consent to legalize the Bitcoin (BTC) adoption as legal tender within the country’s jurisdiction in April, however, has not issued approval for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Bank of Central African States Condemns Nigeria’s BTC Adoption

The central bank of Nigeria was among the initial organizations within the area to introduce a CBDC known as eNaira in October previous year, whereas the Reserve Bank of Africa keeps on delving into the potential use cases of a central bank digital currency via its initiative named “Project Khokha.” The Bank of Central African States condemns Nigeria’s decision of adopting Bitcoin as legal tender, labeling it as awkward as well as a thing that could negatively influence Central Africa’s monetary union.

The African countries in Sub-Saharan territory could go through critical difficulties while launching CBDCs and cryptocurrencies to the regions that have restricted electricity access, in the case of both the mining and transfers. According to the World Bank’s data from 2020, Chad and the CAR both are placed at the lowest population percentages with electricity access, at 11.1% and 15.5% respectively.

After the Bitcoin adoption by CAR, in June, Faustin-Archange Touadéra – the President of the country – declared that the “Sango project” (a crypto initiative) would be adopted by the country taking into account a legal crypto center as well as an exceptional economic sector within the world of the metaverse Africa is still among the nations that are fastest in their growth of the markets comprising digital assets across the globe.

Formerly, according to the reports in March, the crypto transfers had witnessed a huge elevation of up to 2,670% on a continuous yearly basis in Dakar, Senegal, as well as Côte d’Ivoire.