Brazil's central bank to begin adding CBDC pilot participants to digital real platform in mid-June

As Cointelegraph reported, Brazil’s central bank, Banco Central do Brasil, will begin adding CBDC pilot participants to the digital real platform around mid-June 2023. The Central Bank of Brazil will test the privacy and programmability of its platform through a single use case, including Delivery and Payment Agreement for Federal Public Securities. Foresight News previously reported that the Central Bank of Brazil selected 14 selected institutions to participate in the pilot of the digital reality of the country's CBDC, including major local private banks such as Bradesco, Nubank and Itaú Unibanco, as well as Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest public bank, and local securities exchanges. So B3.