The chief monetary authority, National Bank of Ukraine, has taken to professional social network LinkedIn to promote its blockchain developer job opening.
The ad goes on to list “development, implementation and modification of infrastructure services and distributed systems” among the prospective employee’s duties.
The central bank’s interest in blockchain hires adds to other recent news coming out of Ukraine’s CBDC project, the e-hryvnia. Last week, speaking at a round table discussion on the opportunities and risks of virtual assets’ legalization, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation Oleksandr Bornyakov mentioned that the e-hryvnia pilot was underway.
NBU has been considering the possibility of issuing a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, since 2016, while pilot testing of the e-hryvnia as a means of blockchain-based retail payments began two years later, in 2018
