Pilots usually prove concepts, but Project Acacia went far beyond that. The Reserve Bank of Australia (@RBAInfo) needed to test whether blockchain technology could handle wholesale settlement for real financial assets. They started with a question...🧵

2/ “Can it handle $250M securitisations in production, with regulatory compliance?” They selected Redbelly: the first public blockchain chosen to host central bank digital currency activity in a regulated pilot.

3/ Then we ran the test: ✅ @wisraustralia's $250M Freedom Trust → tokenised ✅ Imperium Markets corporate bond → issued via an ASIC-licensed marketplace ✅ CBDC settlement → live ✅ Compliance layer → built in ✅ Zero downtime → maintained ✅ 97.500 TPS capacity → independently verified

4/ The results are expected in Q1 2026. But here’s what you can already see: When a central bank puts real money and real assets on public blockchain infrastructure, it’s validating, not experimenting.

5/ Financial institutions watching this pilot are asking the same question: “If the RBA trusts this infrastructure for wholesale CBDC settlement, why are we still building internal solutions that do less?”

6/ This is how adoption happens. Sure, marketing helps, but the real catalyst is doing something real and proving it works. Then everyone else realises they can’t afford to wait.