China Adopts Security Standards for Blockchain Applications in the Financial Sector

Keeping the focus on blockchain development, banking authorities in China have issued a set of rules pertaining to the secure application of crypto-related technologies in the financial sphere. The new standards, the first of this kind, are to guide the work of developers and service providers operating in the industry.

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Central Bank of China Issues DLT Security Specification

The Financial Distributed Ledger Technology Security Specification (JR/T 0184—2020) comes as a result of joint efforts between major banks such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, and Bank of China, under the guidance of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). The main purpose of the document issued earlier in February is to standardize the deployment of blockchain technology in the financial field, Chinese crypto news outlet 8btc reported.

With the new regulation, the central bank…