Revolut Launches Euro Stablecoin EURR, Starting in Denmark, Poland and Portugal
Trending Topics Jakob Steinschaden
Revolut launched EURR, its euro stablecoin, for some users in Denmark, Poland and Portugal. It’s backed by Bridge, not Revolut, and the plan is to spread across the EEA this year.
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Revolut has put its own euro stablecoin into the app. The token, called EURR, is live for selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, with a wider roll-out across the European Economic Area planned before the end of the year. It also shows up on Revolut X, the company’s trading platform.
The move is bigger than the token itself. Revolut says it serves around 80 million customers, which gives it the kind of distribution most stablecoin projects can only dream about. And that is the whole bet here: move blockchain money out of crypto’s little corner and make it feel useful for ordinary transfers and settlement.
Legally, though, Revolut is not the issuer. That role sits with Bridge Building S.A. in Luxembourg, part of Bridge, which Stripe bought in a deal reported at about 1.1 billion US dollars. Bridge handles issuance, redemption and reserves under Luxembourg licences. Revolut Digital Assets Europe Ltd is listed as the distributor, and Revolut says EURR is backed by reserves held and managed by its EU-licensed issuer in line with MiCA.
The scale is tiny for now. Bridge’s reserve dashboard recently showed 374 tokens in circulation, matched by 374 euros held as cash deposits at credit institutions. No issuance cap is set in the white paper, so supply can grow with demand inside the EEA. The token already exists on Ethereum and Polygon, while more networks are listed as planned, including Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Injective, TON and Sui.
For users, the pitch is a round-the-clock bridge between euros, crypto and external wallets. Holders can redeem at par, free of charge, if they pass compliance checks and have an EEA bank account with a valid IBAN. There’s no interest. Bridge can also freeze addresses when illegal activity is suspected or authorities require it. Revolut says EURR is only the first step, with other currency-pegged stablecoins already in development.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Revolut is doing the sensible thing: using its app reach to make a stablecoin feel boring, which is exactly what these products need. But the real story is that Europe still keeps trying to build a euro presence in digital money while the dollar tokens own the market. Nice branding won’t change that; useful distribution might.
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