The Czech National Bank (CNB) made its first-ever purchase of digital assets, creating a $1 million test portfolio to study the operational and regulatory implications of blockchain-based investments. Per an X post from the bank, the purchase was made outside its international reserves and approved by the Bank Board on Oct. 30. The test portfolio includes bitcoin, an unnamed U.S. dollar stablecoin, and a tokenized deposit. The CNB said the portfolio’s size would not be actively increased and that the purp ...