Australia draft payments vision eyes stablecoin interoperability

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Common types of A2A payments. Source: RBA The draft also treats digital assets as a potential parallel value layer alongside other emerging forces shaping payments. It said these technologies could reshape how payments are initiated, authorized and managed, while introducing new risks around accountability, liability, data use and resilience. The A2A consultation comes as Australia continues broader work on tokenized money, stablecoins and digital asset regulation. In July 2025, the RBA and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre announced the selected use cases for Project Acacia, a wholesale digital money project exploring settlement in tokenized asset markets. The RBA said proposed settlement assets for the use cases included stablecoins, bank deposit tokens, a pilot wholesale central bank digital currency and new ways of using banks’ existing exchange settlement accounts at the RBA. Related: Australian crypto execs upbeat on progress despite lingering issues On March 25, RBA Assistant Governor Brad Jones said the next phase of financial system innovation would require moving beyond short-term pilots toward longer-term, staged environments where industry and regulators can test new technologies and adjust policy settings. He said the interaction of wholesale CBDC with bank deposit tokens and stablecoins, as well as the synchronization of tokenized asset ledgers with Australia’s settlement infrastructure, would be areas of interest. Australia has also moved to bring parts of the digital asset sector into its financial services framework. In November, the Treasury said proposed digital asset laws would introduce two new financial products, digital asset platforms and tokenized custody platforms, requiring them to hold an Australian Financial Services Licence. Magazine: Bitcoin will not hit $1M by 2030, says veteran trader Peter Brandt

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