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CBDC Flow Simulator

Simulate retail and wholesale CBDC payment flows — token issuance, P2P transfer, offline payment, and cross-border multi-CBDC settlement.

Retail CBDC issuance: central bank mints tokens, distributes through commercial banks to end-user wallets using a two-tier model that preserves existing banking relationships.

T+0Settlement
2-TierModel
InstantFinality
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🏛️Central BankToken issuer · monetary authority
🏦Commercial BankDistributor · KYC/AML gateway
📱User WalletCBDC wallet app · end holder
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Issuance Request
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Request Validated
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CBDC Tokens Minted
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Wallet Credited
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Receipt Confirmed
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Settlement Report
Initiation

Issuance Request

Commercial bank submits a CBDC issuance request backed by commercial bank reserves.

The commercial bank debits its reserve account at the central bank and sends a signed issuance request. Request includes: bank ID, requested amount, user account reference, AML attestation, and digital signature over the request payload.

Initiation
Validation
Token Transfer
Settlement
Confirmation
Where the real projects stand (September 2026)
  • Digital euro — the ECB selected 36 payment service providers on 14 July 2026 (from 50+ applicants) for a pilot starting in the second half of 2027 and running twelve months; the legislation is still with the EU co-legislators. The retail scenario here mirrors the intermediated model the ECB has published.
  • Digital rouble — Russia's retail CBDC became mandatory for large banks and merchants from 1 September 2026, the first G20 economy to compel acceptance.
  • Australia — the RBA concluded in September 2026 there is no case for a retail CBDC and is concentrating on wholesale tokenised settlement.
  • Wholesale — most live momentum is in wholesale settlement of tokenised assets and in bank-money alternatives such as SWIFT's shared ledger and regulated stablecoins, which is why the wholesale and cross-border scenarios above matter more to processors today than retail issuance.