{"id":52513,"date":"2021-11-08T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52513"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:36:06","slug":"gref-urges-refinement-of-the-digital-ruble-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/gref-urges-refinement-of-the-digital-ruble-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Gref urges refinement of the digital ruble project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, both bank-issued stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be used in the global economy, said Sberbank chief Herman Gref in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20211108\/gref-1757966466.html\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the economic essence of money does not change \u2014 \u201ca new way of accounting with unique tokens that will allow them to be programmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gref also said that Sberbank supports the issuance of the central bank&#8217;s digital ruble, but believes the project needs to be complemented:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt should also be possible to account for part of the funds on deposits in commercial banks with tokens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He believes this will allow clients to track their money.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis will expand the scope of smart contracts: not only money in accounts at the Bank of Russia will gain innovative properties in the form of a digital ruble, but also the funds of clients of commercial banks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sberbank has joined the first pilot group for testing the digital ruble.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year the company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sberbank-flags-capital-outflow-from-banks-and-higher-lending-rates-amid-the-digital-ruble\">allowed an outflow of 2 to 4 trillion rubles<\/a>, held in banks, after the Bank of Russia&#8217;s CBDC launch over a three-year period.<\/p>\n<p>In early January 2021, Sberbank <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sberbank-applies-to-issue-a-stablecoin\">applied to the central bank<\/a> for registration of a blockchain platform with the subsequent issuance of a stablecoin pegged to the ruble.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the global economy, both bank-issued stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be used, said Sberbank head Herman Gref.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1165,416,1138],"class_list":["post-52513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-digital-ruble","tag-german-gref","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52515,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52513\/revisions\/52515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}