Master's Thesis: Resilient Payment Infrastructure with Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Your thesis

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a digital form of central bank money that can enable secure digital payments. At Giesecke+Devrient, we are exploring how CBDC technology can help strengthen the resilience of public infrastructure.

Your Master’s Thesis will address the research question:

How can CBDC-based payment solutions strengthen the resilience of public infrastructure?

You will identify potential use cases, select one promising scenario, develop a proof of concept and evaluate its performance under challenging connectivity conditions.

The thesis will be conducted jointly with the Chair of Network Architectures and Services at TUM.

Your tasks:

• Analyze current CBDC initiatives, including the digital euro
• Identify resilience-related challenges in today’s payment ecosystem
• Explore and evaluate CBDC use cases for public infrastructure
• Select one use case and develop a proof of concept
• Test the solution under unavailable, slow or intermittent network connectivity
• Analyze and document your findings

Your qualifications:

• Enrolled in a Master’s program in Computer Science or a related field at TUM
• Good programming skills
• Basic knowledge of cryptography and IT security
• Interest in digital currencies, payment technology and resilient systems
• Independent and analytical working style
• Knowledge of advanced cryptography, such as zero-knowledge proofs, is a plus

Your benefits:

• Work on a highly relevant and emerging technology
• Turn your research into a real-world prototype
• Benefit from joint supervision by experts from G+D and TUM
• Gain insights into real-world CBDC development

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