The Central Bank of Tunisia is denying reports that it has launched a digital currency.
In a sweeping rejection published this week the central bank quashed “unfounded” rumors that it had become the first monetary authority to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC), asserting instead that an unaffiliated “proof of concept” project was taken “out of context:”
“The [Central Bank of Tunisia] has not engaged any relationship, of any kind, with any national or foreign provider…
