Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean authorities have decided to introduce a new digital currency that will be backed by gold. The new central bank digital currency (CBDC) can be used as a means of payment within the country and to maintain its stability.

A month down the road since Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan president, proclaimed the formation of the Petro, a state-backed crypto which would allegedly take the nation out of six-digit hyperinflation, the only place where the Petro crypto appears to exist is in the media.

The Reserve bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued rules of thumb in a circular on May 13 that detailed that all cryptocurrency activities carried out in the country were being stopped. The RBZ went ahead and indicated that all domestic digital currency operations were given the maximum of two months to begin complaining. RBZ is now facing a lawsuit from a giant cryptocurrency exchange.