Skip to main content

China's CBDC wallet employs an age-old custom to promote adoption.

 

China's CBDC wallet employs an age-old custom to promote adoption.

In the digital yuan wallet app, a traditional Chinese method of giving money as a gift that has become virtual due to the rise of digital payments has been implemented.

To attract new users, China's wallet app for its digital yuan central bank digital currency (CBDC) introduced the ability for users to send money in an electronic version of traditional "red packets."

As reported by the South China Morning Post on December 26th, the new feature was released over the weekend, roughly one month before the Chinese New Year on January 22nd.

The "red packets," known as hongbao in China, are traditionally used to give money as a symbol of good luck during the Chinese New Year and other celebrations. Popular local services, such as WeChat Pay and Alipay, now offer virtual red envelopes in response to the rise of digital payments.

Reportedly, the e-CNY app allows a red packet to be sent to a single recipient, or a "lucky draw" can be set up for a group of recipients to receive a random amount from a pool of funds. WeChat Pay and Alipay have a similar feature.

Users can select a packet cover that features well wishes for the new year, birthdays, and a "prosperous China.".net/YwotbKdP4sVunJGfdhmgww/e8f260a6-84bf-4222-a093-e1ef14e44c00/

Digital yuan transactions surpassed $14 billion (100 billion yuan) on October 10, representing a 14% increase from the $12 billion (87.6 billion yuan) reported by the People's Bank of China at the end of 2021.

The Chinese Workers' Daily reported on December 18 that the e-CNY trails will expand to Jinan, Nanning, Fangchenggang, and Kunming. Prior to September, the trials had expanded to four provinces, including the most populous, Guangdong.

Despite the government's rapid expansion of the trials, 261 million users have created e-CNY wallets as of January 2022, according to the most recent report.

WeChat Pay and Alipay may be utilized by the Chinese government to promote the adoption of the digital yuan.

According to financial reports, WeChat had 1.3 million monthly active users in the September quarter, while Alipay had over 1 billion annual active users in its fiscal year ending on August 31, 2020.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

What Is Risk Management?

In simple terms, risk management is a process that makes it possible to understand and manage both individual risk events and overall risk in a way that maximizes success by minimizing threats and making the most of opportunities and outcomes. To manage risk well, you have to try to have as much management over what will happen in the future as possible by taking precautions instead of reacting to crises as they happen. So, good risk management has the potential to reduce not only the chance that a risk will come true, but also the bad things that could happen if it does. Structures for risk management Risk management structures are made to do more than just point out where risks are. A good risk management system should also find out what the unknowns are and how they will affect a business. So, the end result is that you have to choose whether or not to take risks. Whether a business takes a risk or not depends on how much risk they are willing to take. If a business sets up risk man...

a succinct analysis of the global futures trading platforms market for 2022

With a forecast period of 2022 to 2029, the Global Futures Trading Platform Market Research offers a thorough analysis of market growth, assessment, region analysis, futures trading platforms market distribution, and competitive landscape analysis of the industry's top rivals. It offers trustworthy information presented in pie charts, tables, and figures, along with qualitative and quantitative statistics about the market for futures trading platforms. It also contains a variety of necessary tools as well as up-to-date information on market trends. Additionally, it offers precise details on the likely market scenarios as well as the favourable odds and circumstances that will allow it to keep its position in the industry. The paper also discusses a variety of market effectiveness, strategies, and beginnings. To determine future objectives and prospects, it thoroughly analyzes the past, the size of the Futures Trading Platforms market, and the present situation. It also calculates g...

QuizTalk and Meta-Airline Sign An NFT Strategic Alliance Agreement.

The collaboration's purpose is to ensure that both organizations' platforms include NFT content and to expand the range of NFT marketplaces at home and overseas. QuizTalk Co., Ltd. has expanded its NS home shopping and live commerce markets, and it recently presented a quiz show on SK Telecom's Ifland metaverse service. The QTCON cryptocurrency was listed on the three largest domestic exchanges, Bithumb, Upbit, and Coinone. It was also listed on the worldwide exchange Gate.io. The "QUIZTOK" platform from QuizTalk has approximately 780 million quiz answers, 1.32 million quizzes, and 700,000 downloads. When you answer a quiz question on Quiz Talk, you can get points, as can the person who posed the question. There is also a quiz curator, which allows one's followers to get quizzes. A company that wishes to promote on QuizTalk must get and use QuizTalk tokens. Meta-Airline is a travel NFT project that allows you to purchase tickets via your MAL-SCAN platform. MET...