NBKR Signs CertiK to Secure Kyrgyzstan's Digital Som Ahead of a December Pilot Deadline
Nine days ago the president of Kyrgyzstan gave his central bank a deadline: build a working digital som platform and pilot it by 31 December 2026, test it with real users in 2027, then roll it out to the country in stages. Today the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CertiK, the largest security firm in Web3, to help it get there without the thing that has cost the crypto industry $3.35 billion in 2025 and another $1.32 billion in the first six months of this year. The digital som is already legal tender under a constitutional law signed in April 2025, which is further than 131 of the 134 countriesstudying a CBDC have got. What Bishkek does not yet have is the thing every central bank discovers it needs the moment a digital currency goes from slide deck...
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