Nigerian experts insist that Africa's first CBDC is currently not for non -banks - fintech
Nigerian experts insist that Africa's first CBDC is currently not for non -banks - fintech
While the central bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to promote the references of the E-Naira as an instrument to promote financial inclusion, some experts agree that this digital central bank currency (CBDC) is currently not doing this.
The chaotic start of the CBDC
This claim and the short distance of the e-naira app from the Google Play Store seem to give the claims credibility that the CBN may have hurried to bring the first CBDC Africa on the market.
although a test report pointed out by the newspaper Punch that the CBN is now publishing a version of the e-naira app for non-bankers Working, however, does not yet indicate when it will probably be available. This becomes clear by the CBN that the actors in Nigeria's blockchain industry caused the ability of the central bank to question this CBDC.
First, the app requires that I use my bank's app before I can carry out transactions; So what service does it offer me that my banks have not yet offered? Therefore, it doesn't look like the CBN aims at people who have no bank account. Of course, anyone who has a smartphone should also have a bank account for downloading an app. The fact that I have to use my bank account to log in contradicts the saying that they will make "bank the unkind".
Although the CBN repeatedly promised that its e-naira wallet would also be available to non-smartphone users for transactions with the digital currency, this service was not yet available at the time of writing.
The deficit of trust of the CBN
In the meantime, the E-Naira app could be a product of random planning in addition to the non-availability for featurephone users, according to IWU. Iwu admitted that the e-naira app-just like other applications-could have some "errors", suggested that this could have been avoided if the CBN had properly used the funds provided for the project.
Another expert, Charles Okaformbah, CTO at Convexity, suggested that a betate could have prevented the CBN from publishing the incorrect app. The report quotes Okaformbah and explains:
I think if the app developers had carried out many tests-let's say that the application with a selected group of people outside the development team would be closely noticed-some of the problems would have been noticed and resolved.
The economist Lloyd Onaghinon believed that the collaboration between the CBN and actors of the Nigerian blockchain industry could have leaded to a much better end product.
In his conclusion, the CryptoassetBuyer report states that there is a noticeable deficiency in trust and the CBN is obliged to remedy it.
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