According to Bitcoin.com, the European Central Bank (ECB) has selected COTI, the Ethereum privacy layer protocol, as the digital euro pilot partner to jointly develop the CBDC technology solution launched in early 2026 with KPMG, Accenture and other institutions. COTI will use its original Garbled Circuits encryption protocol to build core privacy functions for the digital euro. Nearly 70 selected institutions need to complete the technical verification of the conditional payment system by 2026....