Japan CBDC tests hit 50K TPS, but digital yen still distant

Homepage > News > Finance > Japan CBDC tests hit 50K TPS, but digital yen still distant TL;DR: The Bank of Japan’s latest CBDC progress report shows its pilot system handling a mixed load of 50,000 transactions per second in testing, with no “technical knockout factor” found that would block a real-world rollout. But the central bank still has not decided whether to issue a digital yen, and the more telling change may be organizational: its CBDC Forum is being restructured to fold stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and DLT into the discussion, just as private yen stablecoins like JPYC move from pilots to payrolls. Key Takeaways The Bank of Japan’s pilot CBDC system processed 50,000 TPS in a mixed workload test (10,000 payments plus 40,000 balance inquiries). A “record splitting” technique lifted throughput on a single busy account from around 50-100 TPS to 6,000 TPS. The central bank says it found no fatal technical barrier to social implementation, while admitting a production system would be far harder to build than the pilot. The CBDC Forum’s seven working groups are being merged into three, with one group dedicated to stablecoins, tokenized deposits, DLT, and asset token...