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🚨 LG CNS SHOWS AI AGENTS PAYING EACH OTHER WITH DEPOSIT TOKENS IN CENTRAL-BANK SANDBOX 🚨

South Korean IT giant LG CNS has successfully demoed AI-to-AI commerce using bank-issued deposit tokens inside the Bank of Korea’s CBDC pilot, proving that machine agents can autonomously order, pay and settle without human sign-off. In the test, a procurement bot spent KRW-denominated deposit tokens to buy server time from a cloud-bot; settlement hit T+0 with programmable tax withholding and FX micro-hedge baked into the same smart-contract call.

🔑 Key Points

🔹 Agentic Money – Each AI agent holds a non-custodial wallet keyed to a bank token account; payments trigger only when service-level proofs (CPU utilization, latency logs) are hash-verified on-chain.

🔹 Deposit Token Rail – Tokens are 1:1 KRW claims on participating commercial banks (Shinhan, NH, KB) and run on a permissioned Hyperledger Fabric overseen by the BOK; no volatility, no stablecoin collateral risk.

🔹 Micro-Pricing – Cloud-bot sold compute at KRW 0.18 per second; tax office smart-contract auto-skimmed 3.3 % VAT, remitting to the National Tax Service wallet in real time.

🔹 FX Module – Cross-border leg used Bank of Thailand’s CBDC bridge; KRW deposit tokens swapped to THB via Hashed-Time-Locked Contracts in < 3 seconds at 0.05 % spread.

🔹 Regulatory Sandbox – Demo sits inside the Korean central bank’s 2nd CBDC phase; LG CNS expects pilot commercial launch for enterprise AI services in H2 2026 if legal amendments pass.

💡 Why It Matters

🔹 Machine Economy Blueprint – First live example of AI agents holding fiat-backed tokens, spending autonomously and complying with tax/AML rules—a template for millions of IoT devices that will trade bandwidth, power, data 24/7.

🔹 Deposit Token Edge – Bank-issued tokens remove stablecoin issuer risk and plug directly into existing KYC accounts, giving regulators comfort while retaining programmability.

🔹 Tax Real-Time – Government skims revenue at the moment of commerce, shrinking evasion and flattening cash-flow cycles; expect other treasuries to copy the code.

🔹 FX Cost Crush – CBDC-to-CBDC atomic swaps at sub-penny spreads show how BIS mBridge-style rails could undercut correspondent banks for micro-remittances.

🔹 Enterprise Gateway – If legislated, LG CNS platform will let any company spin up AI agents with pre-funded deposit wallets, turning capex (servers) into opex (pay-per-second) and creating a new, high-frequency revenue stream for Korean banks.

Bottom line: LG’s demo flips “programmable money” from buzz-word to operational reality, proving that AI bots can be first-class economic citizens—as long as central banks give them bank-grade deposit tokens** to spend.

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/lg-cns-demos-deposit-tokens-for-ai-agentic-payments-in-central-bank-trials/

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Korean IT service provider LG CNS has demonstrated an AI agentic payment system using deposit tokens. The demonstration was part of Project Han River, the

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🔹 24/7 Matching – Proposal would let ATSs and exchanges keep continuous order books if they meet liquidity buffers; pilot slots prioritize DLT venues that already never close.

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Remember how U.S. Troops were ordered into Libya all of a sudden? How Gaddafi was captured and murdered? And then everything went silent? It was all "Tut, tut....move along, nothing to see here."?

After years of being a critic of the Western Colonial Empire, Gaddafi went too far. He suggested that African countries do something that America once did --- form a Union, issue a single gold-backed currency, and act in mutual self-interest.

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The same NATO players and the same unwitting mercenaries had already done the same thing, seven years before, in Iraq.

Iraq's gold reserves were stolen, too, but nobody talks about that.

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Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" were right under our noses, hidden in plain sight. Oil resources could be "weaponized" in a commercial war designed to end the Petrodollar monopoly. Gold resources could similarly be deployed.

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The vast majority of U.S. troops in Iraq and Libya, both, didn't know their actual role in either one of these attacks.

Just like they didn't know that the artillery shells they were using were full of deadly nuclear waste that was polluting the whole region --- and serving to kill them, too, via exposure to this unseen pollution.

They just tried to use other mercenaries to steal Burkina Faso's gold, too. It didn't work out so well.

Things only got worse. France wasn't about to give up its colonial holdings in the Sahel region of West Africa without a fight. So they sought to encircle Burkina Faso and bully their way back into power that was never theirs. Vladimir Putin, not NATO, stood firm, making it impossible for France to force either regime change or direct military intervention.

Colonialism in Africa, including the modern form of Corporate Feudalism, has been a plague, a constant pernicious asset stripping operation that has sought to cripple the economies of entire nations and reduce African countries to a condition of dependence and helplessness, a circumstance which has consigned generations of African people to poverty, pollution, and loss of self-determination.

We applaud the Sahel for its determination to live free, to use its resources first and foremost for the benefit of their own people, and to choose their own future.

We wish the nations of the Sahel peace and plenty and self-determination. We shame those governments -- aka, commercial mercenary corporations -- in Europe which have mercilessly and recklessly preyed upon nations and people who have only sought fairness and respect, reliable business partners, and a future worth living for. They have nobody to blame, and that includes blaming Vladimir Putin.

They have, and they have always had, the option of treating the nations of the Sahel as equals, owed care, consideration, respect, and fairness. It's their fault and on France's account, that they have not updated and corrected their predatory behavior.

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Experts warn the birth slump threatens China’s future workforce, growth prospects, and social stability.

China’s plunging birth rate is increasingly being viewed by analysts as a point of no return—one that reflects not only changing social attitudes but the long-term consequences of decades of state control over family life.

“The pace of the decline is striking, particularly in the absence of major shocks,” Yue Su, principal economist at the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit, told CNBC.

Rapid Demographic Contraction

While falling birthrates are a common phenomenon in many countries, analysts say China’s trajectory stands apart in both speed and scale.

China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Jan. 19 that the country recorded just 7.92 million births in 2025, down from 9.54 million in 2024 and the lowest number in decades. China’s total population fell for the fourth consecutive year, shrinking by 3.39 million people—the steepest annual decline since population contraction began in 2022.

The collapse in births follows decades of the Chinese regime’s brutal one-child policy from 1979 until 2015, using heavy fines, job penalties, and even forced abortions to limit family size. The policy succeeded in slowing population growth but also accelerated population aging.

Even after Beijing formally ended the policy—and later allowed two and then three children—birthrates continued to fall, showing that long-term social and economic effects have proven difficult to reverse.

Chinese state-controlled media NetEase reported China’s total fertility rate (TFR) was below 1 birth per woman for 2025, citing China-based scholars.

The World Factbook by the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency showed a slightly higher figure of 1.2, still among the lowest in the world. By comparison, the United States’ TFR was at 1.63 for 2025, well above China’s level, though still below the population replacement rate of 2.1.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) estimated in 2022 that in the late 1980s, China’s total fertility rate—the average number of children born to each woman—stood at 2.6, and since 1994, China’s fertility rate has hovered between 1.6 and 1.7, before falling to 1.3 in 2020 and dropping further to just 1.15 in 2021.

This marks the first instance of sustained population decline in China outside of the three famine years since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.

National Bureau of Statistics data show that China’s natural population growth rate in 2025 fell to negative 2.41 per thousand, while the death rate rose to 8.04 per thousand, the highest level since 1968.

U.S.-based China current affairs commentator Wang He described the pace of decline as historically rare.

“In 2016, China had more than 17 million newborns,” Wang told The Epoch Times. “Ten years later, births have fallen by more than 10 million. A collapse of this magnitude in peacetime is extremely uncommon in world history.”

Questions Over the Numbers

Some analysts believe the official figures may still overstate the true number of births.

Skepticism over China’s population data has long existed. The 2020 national census reported a population of 1.41 billion, but many observers suggested the figure may have been inflated, citing earlier local surveys that had already shown negative population growth.

Japan-based Hong Kong journalist and economist Joseph Lian said in a 2023 interview with The Epoch Times that the Chinese regime’s population data manipulation likely began as early as the 1990s.

“By the mid-2000s, it became clear that population growth was losing momentum, and large-scale data inflation began,” he said.

According to Wang, the Chinese regime controls multiple parallel datasets—including the public security bureau’s household registration records, hospital birth data, and primary school enrollment figures—none of which are publicly accessible.

“How much the data is adjusted, and to what extent, outsiders can only guess,” he said.

Why Young Chinese People Aren’t Having Children

China’s demographic crisis is unfolding despite years of regime efforts to encourage childbirth. Authorities have rolled out birth subsidies, simplified marriage registration, extended maternity leave, and even imposed a 13 percent tax on condoms. None of it has reversed the trend.

The CCP’s propaganda mouthpiece China Central Television reported that the number of registered marriages in China in 2024 fell by nearly 20 percent, the largest drop on record. About 6.1 million couples married that year, down from 7.68 million in 2023. Marriage rates in China are widely viewed as a leading indicator for future birth trends.

For many young Chinese people, the barriers to starting a family remain overwhelming.

Chinese state media China National Radio cited a 2024 survey by the YuWa Population Research Institute that found that the average cost of raising a child to high school graduation in China is about 538,000 yuan ($75,000), more than six times China’s per-capita gross domestic product (GDP). In major cities, the cost is even higher. By comparison, the figure is about 4.1 times per-capita GDP in the United States and 4.26 in Japan.

Researchers at nonprofit research organization RAND have suggested that China’s falling fertility reflects “unmet fertility intentions,” not a lack of desire for children.

“China’s pronatalist policies have not reversed fertility decline or increased population growth to a sustainable rate, demonstrating the limits of state-led interventions in family decision-making,” RAND analysts wrote.

U.S.-based Chinese economist Li Hengqing noted that childlessness is often a reluctant choice.

“For average Chinese [families], having children is about lineage, emotional security, and hope,” Li told The Epoch Times. “Not having children is an extremely painful and involuntary decision.”

Wang sees the demographic collapse as a form of collective protest.

“In a sense, this is the public casting its vote,” he said. “By refusing to have children, people are expressing their anger—and their despair.”

Economic Consequences

Economists warn that no society has achieved sustained economic growth amid long-term population decline.

Research firm the Rhodium Group projected in late 2024 that China’s real GDP growth in 2025 would range between 2.5 and 3 percent, roughly half of the regime’s reported figures, reflecting mounting structural constraints.

China now faces a rapidly aging population alongside a shrinking labor force. Fewer newborns today means fewer workers tomorrow, making it harder to support an expanding elderly population and placing additional strain on an already fragile pension system.

According to the Chinese Communist Party’s State Council, by 2035, the number of people aged 60 and above is expected to reach 400 million, which will be more than 30 percent of the country’s population.

A 2019 report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated that China’s pension reserves could be exhausted by 2035.

China’s current population trend is what demographers often describe as the “low-fertility trap.” Once fertility falls below 1.5—or even 1.4—it becomes extraordinarily difficult to raise it by even 0.3 points. China’s fertility rate is already far below that threshold.

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