Queensland’s treasury jumps into blockchain with “cryptobond”
The Australian regional government’s foray into blockchain based debt-raising appears to be groundbreaking, but is it a solution looking for a problem?
In conjunction with Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) issued what is believed to be the first “bond issuance by a government entity… in the world”, according to the Australian lender.
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