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The EU has something on the way called EPI for European Payment Initiative:

https://www.epicompany.eu/

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/news/html/ecb.mipnews23...



I forgot to update myself actually. Last month, they chose a brand name for the service: Wero.[0]

Here [1], it says:

> strong potential for "wero" to emerge as the leading wallet for the digital euro central bank digital currency (CBDC)

Great, but I am not sure about its potential to safeguard our privacy. One can hope maybe they wont sell our data to commercial entities.

[0]: https://www.epicompany.eu/european-payments-initiative-selec...

[1]: https://payments1connectingthedots.substack.com/p/new-kid-on...




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