Project Agorá completed real-value testing in July 2026, settling about CHF 800,000, or roughly $1 million, across 17 transaction scenarios. The trials averaged approximately 80 seconds for settlement across six currencies without direct integration into core real-time gross settlement systems. A May report from the Bank for International Settlements and the Institute of International Finance confirmed the technical feasibility of atomic settlement and legal finality across participating jurisdictions. The initiative combines tokenized central bank reserves on jurisdictional ledgers with tokenized commercial bank deposits on a shared ledger. It is intended to modernize, not eliminate, correspondent banking and the two-tier monetary framework. More than 40 private institutions participate in the wider project, while a subgroup of 28 financial institutions and central banks conducted the real-value tests. The Bank of Canada has also joined the central bank consortium, alongside the original seven participants.
