A limited number of US public finance issuers are encouraging cryptocurrency (crypto) ventures and exploring the use of crypto as a form of exchange to grow economies and promote efficiencies, but this can expose issuers to a still-evolving economic and regulatory environment, Fitch Ratings says. Public entities have so far typically been recipients of crypto that is converted to cash.
Crypto offers ease and speed of transfer of value, relative to settlement through the conventional US financial system. Because crypto transactions are conducted via distributed ledger technology (DLT), payments can be automatically executed once conditions of the contract recorded on the electronic ledger are met.
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