$\mathsf{PEReDi}$: Privacy-Enhanced, Regulated and Distributed Central Bank Digital Currencies

ePrint Report: $\mathsf{PEReDi}$: Privacy-Enhanced, Regulated and Distributed Central Bank Digital Currencies

Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss, Amirreza Sarencheh

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) aspire to offer a digital replacement for physical cash and as such need to tackle two fundamental requirements that are in conflict. On the one hand, it is desired they are $\textit{private}$ so that a financial ``panopticon'' is avoided, while on the other, they should be $\textit{regulation friendly}$ in the sense of facilitating any threshold-limiting, tracing, and counterparty …

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