The European Central Bank has published the Appia Roadmap outlining the long-term plan for a European tokenized financial market

BlockBeats News, March 11th. The European Central Bank (ECB) released the Appia Roadmap, outlining a long-term plan to build a tokenized financial market in Europe based on central bank digital currency. Appia serves as a broad strategic framework for developing the future tokenized financial ecosystem, with Pontes being a key part of the Appia Roadmap.

The European Central Bank stated that the Pontes plan is set to launch in the third quarter of 2026, introducing a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) solution for the Eurosystem to achieve central bank money settlement for market transactions through an interoperable network, enabling interoperability with the Euro system's TARGET payment settlement services. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank has opened a public consultation with feedback due by April 22nd. In addition, the Digital Euro pilot project is scheduled to officially launch in the second half of 2027.