Bank of Israel Testing Ethereum Tech in Digital Shekel Trial

I was worried for that the banks would be using general Ethereum network and giving up the control of the national currencies, but luckily this does not seem to be the case [0]. Looks like it is some sort of test net now, and I really hope they'll have their own managed blockchain later:

> Use of Ethereum is within a closed network and is in no way connected to the general Ethereum currency network.

[0] https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-bank-of-israel-adopts-eth...

Central banks of Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand are also supposedly experimenting with it.