How India's Central Bank Shows Interest in the Potential of Distributed Ledger Technology. In the progressively data-driven, speedy, and decentralized world, a central bank adopting blockchain-a technology born in the open, unregulated corners of the internet-can, indeed, seem paradoxical. Yet that's what India's top monetary authority, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is doing. Quietly, if resolutely, it has embarked on pilot projects to see whether the use of blockchain technology could bring greater transparency, efficiency, and security to financial systems. It is not just showing innovation but developing a whole conceptual framework through which public finance and monetary systems may or may not be delivered in the next several years.