Caribbean Digital Currency Resumes Trading After 2-Month Outage

March 9, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

DCash -- the digital version of the Eastern Caribbean dollar used by eight island nations -- resumed functioning Wednesday after being down for almost two months.

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank said in a statement the DCash platform was back online after crashing Jan. 14. The glitch was due to an expiring certificate on the version of the Hyperledger Fabric that hosted the DCash ledger, officials said.

The bank said it upgraded the platform and conducted “extensive testing and assurance exercises” before bringing the currency back online.

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