Russia to Replace Global Swift System by Deploying its own Blockchain System

• Blockchain Council
• September 07, 2022

Russia appears to be exploiting blockchain technology to get past the Swift embargo.

Last February, Russian banks were excluded from the SWIFT system. The CELLS platform allows customers to establish wallets.

The Rostec Group, based in Russia, is a management organization that includes a number of innovative firms. They’ve said that they’ve developed a blockchain platform to send out a computerized framework for worldwide installations capable of displacing the global Swift framework.

Because of permissions demanded by Western nations in light of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, Russian banks were barred from using the SWIFT system in February. Since then, Moscow has been looking for a financial transaction system to replace SWIFT and protect its foreign currency activities.

Russia will be capable of paying for its imports in its native currency, the Ruble, instead of the dollar, thanks to an automated international payment system. According to the Rostec group, the new framework will also enable far-flung countries to pay for their purchases from Russia using their own national currencies.

The NIPS (Novosibirsk Institute of Software Systems), which is thus linked with the Rostec Group, established the blockchain stage on which the global installments framework was created, termed CELLS, according to Rostec’s statement.

The stage is designed to be able to provide a unified framework in light of widely spread record innovation.

According to the Russian gathering, one of the stage’s main components is a computerized system for processing payments in the public monetary standards of the countries involved.

The company claims that its new system “may provide a true alternative to the global payment administrations provided by the SWIFT framework,” from which Russian banks have been separated due to Western approval.

According to the declaration, in addition to worldwide payment administration, the CELLS platform gives its clients the ability to create wallets to keep computerized monetary standards.

Russia promises protected transactions

As per Oleg Yevtushenko, CEO of the Rostec Group, the new worldwide installation system will allow swift and secure exchanges, with the new computerised framework capable of 100,000 exchanges per second and the ability to enhance this number.

Yevtushenko also stated that the new framework’s installment feature in nearby public monetary forms would enable consumers to bypass Western authorizations imposed on Russia.

The Rostec group is concentrating on large corporations with ties to Russia, as well as foreign government experts who deal with Moscow, as well as monetary foundations and banks.

The new protocol was launched only days after the Russian government declared that it was investigating the use of cryptocurrencies in international payments. The Russian Central Bank proposed prohibiting the creation and use of all cryptocurrencies in January.

The Russian Central Bank had earlier this year issued a warning about the dangers of cryptocurrencies to the country’s financial system, thus this is considered as a shift in Russia’s attitude on cryptocurrencies. The autonomy of a country’s monetary policy is believed to be jeopardised by cryptocurrency.

The legal status of cryptocurrencies in Russia, on the other hand, is still in flux, and previous attempts to legalise them have failed. The administration is pressing for its approval in order to entice potential investors and shield domestic trade from Western sanctions.

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