🚨 BREAKING: The EU Council has officially endorsed the European Central Bank’s (ECB) design for the digital euro, signaling a major step toward a sovereign European CBDC. This landmark endorsement covers a dual-model approach, integrating both online functionality and a privacy-centric offline version to ensure widespread utility across the eurozone. $BTC

The inclusion of a robust offline capability is specifically designed to mirror the anonymity of physical cash, addressing long-standing surveillance concerns while providing a secure digital settlement layer for peer-to-peer transactions without internet access. This move is seen as Europe’s strategic pivot to modernize its financial plumbing in response to the rise of private stablecoins. $ETH

Analysts suggest that while the digital euro aims to fortify the continent’s monetary sovereignty, its integration could ignite a new "war for liquidity" between state-backed assets and decentralized protocols. As the project enters its next legislative phase, the focus shifts to how this massive influx of "programmable euros" will reshape the Euro-denominated DeFi landscape by 2026. $LUNA2