Digital bond
European Investment Bank, public sector, on Ethereum since April 2021.
Joint lead managers Goldman Sachs, Santander and Société Générale; the cash leg settled in Banque de France experimental wholesale CBDC on a separate private ledger. Matured 2023. IMPORTANT: this remains the only EIB digital bond on a public chain: every EIB digital issuance since has used private platforms. Source is a lead manager reproducing the release, because eib.org returns 403 to automated fetch.
In the record
64
months from first observation to the record's assessment of August 2026
8
public sector rows in the record, this one included
45
rows filed to Ethereum by their sources
What it bears on
R3Do we know what this instrument is, legally, in every venue we operate?
needs design
ETH is a digital commodity in the United States and stablecoin law is in force. Market-structure legislation stalled, and jurisdictions are diverging.
R6Who is the counterparty when there is no counterparty?
needs design
An ownerless system meeting procurement built for vendors. Six organisations can take your first call, and our own unincorporated status is part of this problem, not outside it.