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Project Agorá Completes First Real-Value Settlement Test on Tokenized Central Bank Reserves

A bank vault door stands ajar, gold light spilling over stacked coin bundles and a brass balance scale
Central banks tested moving real reserves across a shared ledger — without creating any new digital currency. Illustration: MarketIntelLabs

## Project Agorá Just Moved Real Money on a Central Bank Ledger That Was Never Supposed to Need a New Coin ### In July 2026, five reserve-currency central banks settled roughly CHF 800,000 across 17 real-value scenarios on a shared tokenized ledger, and the design choice behind it, no new digital currency, is the more consequential story than the dollar figure Key Takeaways Project Agorá completed real-value testing (RVT) in July 2026, settling approximately CHF 800,000 across 17 transaction scenarios involving CHF, EUR, GBP, JPY, KRW and USD, per the Bank for International Settlements. Twenty-eight institutions, five central banks (Bank of England, Bank of France for the Eurosystem, Bank of…

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Project Agora Completes Tokenized Reserves Settlement Test | MarketIntelLabs