英格兰银行在同步结算中发现 DLT 的新用例

The ‘Project Meridian’ prototype demonstrates how to orchestrate synchronised settlement in central bank money using housing transactions as an exploratory use case.

In this instance, transactions settle using central bank money in an RTGS system. Funds are transferred from a buyer to a seller only if a corresponding asset on another ledger – a real estate registry in the project’s use case – moves at the same time in the opposite direction, reducing transaction costs and risks and increasing efficiency.

This is achieved via a new entity, the synchronisation operator, which in the experiment uses distributed ledger technology (DLT) to interlink the central bank’s settlement system with other financial market infrastructures and ledgers, automatically orchestrating the exchange in ownership of funds and assets.

英格兰银行和国际清算银行表示，通用接口可以为同步运营商提供一种标准方式，将外汇、股票和债券等多种类型的资产分类账连接到 RTGS 系统并以央行货币结算，从而消除交易对手风险和降低流动性成本。

Francesca Hopwood Road, head of the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, says: “Project Meridian demonstrates the potential to improve the functioning of existing financial market infrastructures with new technologies such as DLT. As central banks periodically update their settlement systems, the project’s insights will support the analysis of synchronisation’s benefits and shape how that service should be designed.”

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