EU Parliament Study: Central Bank Digital Currencies ‘Will Reshape Competition’ in Crypto Market

A cram on issues of war in fintech, specially made by the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), was published July 20. It found that central bank-issue digital currencies could be a “mixture” for a lack of antagonism strategy in the crypto division:

The entrance of permission cryptocurrencies promoted by banks, still by central banks, will redesign the current war level in the cryptocurrency marketplace, expansion the numeral of competitor.

The study mentions cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) as “hi-tech and prepared that are a foundation of commotion for the entire division, as well as monetary policy and monetary stability.” Other “unruly and inventive application” of new technologies includes “AI, cloud computing, biometrics, digital identity, blockchain, cybersecurity, RegTech, internet of things (IoT), augmented actuality.”

Private digital currencies are distinct separately from innermost bank-issued digital currencies (CBDC), noting that the CBDCs differ by being based on a “conventional bilateral settlement with a trusted central gathering.”

According to the revise, since closed cryptocurrency system require a management authority, central banks could be bearing in mind using “authorization cryptocurrency systems” to “harmonize or substitute” the currencies already used.

The study claim that CBDCs “will redesign the current antagonism level in the inter-cryptocurrency market” by adding to the pool of competitors:

A probable meagerness of traditional struggle policy to speak to rivalry issues in the cryptocurrency markets can be found, suggestive of direct public sharing from side to side a central-bank digital currency as a tonic.

The contest issues, the ECON study notes, can be alienated into “inter-cryptocurrency market” fight between cryptos, and “intra-cryptocurrency” market competition between overhaul providers like wallets and exchanges.

In terms of “inter-crypto market” struggle, the study reports that the “being there of network property” and a high number of users of a cryptocurrency could provide a barrier to entrance for other cryptos attempt to join the market. The study hypothesizes that this competition “may lead to latent collusive agreements between members of hypothetical cartels.”

For “intra-crypto market” competition, wallets, exchanges, and payment providers could generate practices that would keep others out of the market, such as getting inducements from miners that favor one cryptocurrency over one more.

In mid-July, a new EU directive came into force that set stricter transparency rules for digital currencies to protect against money laundering and terrorist financing.

Also in July, virtual currencies were discussed for the first time at ECON’s “Monetary Dialogue” session, with five different briefing reports discussed on topics ranging from crypto and central banks to crypto and the “Eurosystem.