Digital Ruble Opens 87,000 Accounts as Russia Pushes Its CBDC Into the Mainstream

Russia’s digital ruble has been available nationwide for just ten days, and already 87,000 people have opened accounts. More than 50,000 transactions have also been recorded, according to Elvira Nabiullina, governor of the Bank of Russia.That works out to roughly 8,700 new accounts a day. But the more interesting question is what happens after the novelty wears off.Nabiullina has acknowledged that some users are opening accounts simply to test the new system. So while the early numbers sug