How a G20 central bank ran a sovereign wholesale CBDC pilot end-to-end
A central bank deployed a permissioned wholesale CBDC pilot with 8 commercial bank participants on sovereign-controlled infrastructure operated by Blockops.
- Client
- Sovereign monetary authority (anonymized)
- Industry
- Public Sector & CBDCs
- Region
- Single-country, sovereign deployment
- Timeline
- 6 months from design to live pilot
What we delivered
What the team was up against
Sovereignty requirements
Keys, data, and operations had to remain under national control with no foreign cloud dependencies.
Multi-bank coordination
Eight commercial banks needed permissioned access with different roles and limits.
Public scrutiny
All actions had to be auditable yet privacy-preserving for participants.
How Blockops delivered
Sovereign deployment
Permissioned network deployed in two domestic data centers with multi-region failover.
Distributed signing for reserves
MPC custody distributed signing across the central bank and a custodian.
Unified observability
Mission Control gave the central bank live visibility across all 8 participants.
Products used
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