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European Central Bank Moves to Trademark 'Digital Euro'
The EU's central bank has laid a claim to the phrase "digital euro" before deciding whether to actually issue one.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has applied for a trademark on the phrase "digital euro," according to a Bloomberg report.
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- Bloomberg confirmed that ECB lawyers at the German firm Bock Legal applied for the European Union Intellectual Property Office's "digital euro" trademark on Sept. 22. It has not yet been granted.
- Officials have not actually committed to issuing a digital euro quite yet. Eurozone central bankers say they continue to study the issue, even as an alternative to cryptocurrency.
- European Union member countries and banks are nonetheless gearing up in anticipation of a digitally native euro becoming a reality.
Danny Nelson
Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.
