Brazil’s Central Bank Plans to Use CBDC Data to Guide Interest Rate Decisions - Coin Surges

How Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Transforming Global Payments in 2025

The way we move money is changing. And while we often think of central banks as slow-moving and traditional, when it comes to the future of money, they’re not standing back. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have moved from experimental projects to active pilots and rollouts in several regions. What started as a cautious exploration has now become a serious push to redefine how we transact, both domestically and across borders. So what exa…

Brazil’s central bank plans to use CBDC data to guide interest rate decisions

Brazil’s Central Bank plans to treat transaction data from its central bank digital currency (CBDC) infrastructure, called Drex, as a direct input for setting the country’s interest rate benchmark. Central bank executive Henrique Videira said on June 4 at the Token Nation conference in São Paulo that every payment and asset transfer recorded on Drex’s distributed ledger will generate a time-stamped, structured entry. By aggregating those entries…

Brazil’s central bank plans to use CBDC data to guide interest rate decisions - Coin Surges

Brazil’s Central Bank plans to treat transaction data from its central bank digital currency (CBDC) infrastructure, called Drex, as a direct input for setting the country’s interest rate benchmark. Central bank executive Henrique Videira said on June 4 at the Token Nation conference in São Paulo that every payment and asset transfer recorded on Drex’s distributed ledger will generate a time-stamped, structured entry. By aggregating those entries…