China Construction Bank, one of the central state-owned banks in China, recently realized that the official wallet for the national CBDC is open for public use within its official banking app. The users could navigate to the wallet by merely entering the national digital currency, which would take the users to the wallet feature where they can register and activate the wallet by subscribing with the mobile number associated with their bank accounts.

Soon, the bank came to discover about the activation of the official wallet from the amount of community's buzz that the activation caused among the crypto community in the country. Many customers went on to make small transactions in the yet to be released CBDC.

As soon as the news was brought to the attention of the state-owned bank, they swiftly disabled the feature. After disabling the official wallet feature, people searching for the CBDC wallet were shown a message which roughly translated to, “This feature is currently unavailable for the public, kindly wait patiently.”

The official wallet app was online for a brief period, but in today’s day and time, anything which makes it to the internet ones hardly disappear, and that has been the case with the ongoing official digital Yuan wallet launch by mistake. People were quick to post the layout of the wallet app on the internet, which showed that the users who managed to register with the new wallet app were given an official wallet ID, which could be used for the transfer of funds between the official wallet app and the user’s account.

The wallet would not just allow transactions between the bank and the app a user can send their digital yuan to another wallet by adding the unique wallet ID.

China is going to become the first country to launch its official digital currency issued by the People’s Bank of China. The big-four state-owned banks have been tasked to develop their respective wallet app to facilitate transactions using the CBDC.

China started its research on Central Bank Issued Digital Currency almost five years ago, and rumor mills were rife that the launch of the digital yuan would take place by the end of last year. However, the Chinese government mostly discarded these rumors without offering any official stance on the date of the launch. However, by the first quarter of 2020, the PBOC launched the testnet, and last week the mainnet for the digital yuan was established as well.

During the trial run, the government used digital yuan as a form of a travel subsidy for government employees in selected areas. The testing phase was later expanded to more cities and even included restaurants and fast-food chains.

With the official launch of the digital yuan just round the corner, many countries are actively observing China’s progress in the digital currency domain.

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