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ECB executive Isabelle Schnabel warned stablecoins risk importing traditional financial vulnerabilities like bank runs and could reinforce US dollar dominance. She argued for modernizing public money via a digital euro and tokenized central bank settlement.
The European Central Bank aims to finalize technical standards for a digital euro by summer 2026, with a potential launch date of 2029, a timeline Bitcoin And host argues is too late to compete with established private stablecoins.
The ECB frames the €4-6 billion implementation cost for a digital euro as just 3% of EU banks' annual IT budgets, positioning it as infrastructure for private banks to build pan-European payment rails and reduce reliance on international card networks.
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