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The XVIII BRICS Summit will be held in New Delhi on September 12-13, 2026. India holds the Chairmanship, the first year in this role. On the agenda: EAEU–India FTA, BRICS Pay, transport corridors, food and energy security. This is a key event for the foreign economic activity community in the second half of the year.

Brazil, as the current chairman of the BRICS, has officially raised the issue of including BRICS Pay in the main agenda of the 2026 summit in India. Russia supported it. The successful pilot of the Drex CBDC bridge-the UAE digital dirhams, completed in June, strengthened the position of supporters. Technically, BRICS Pay assumes a single CBDC platform for payments within a block without a dollar. If India approves, there will be a working tool for $1 trillion in trade without American infrastruc

The topic of "BRICS payments without a dollar" is trending again: the allegedly launched DCMS system based on Brazilian Pix is being discussed in the crypto community. But there is a long distance between the application in the social platform and the real interstate payment circuit. We analyze what is confirmed by the sources and what it means for foreign economic activity.