Euro-area inflation was 3.8% in September. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said most of that came from high energy prices. She said the ECB expects those costs to come down next year.
Lagarde also called the euro-area economy resilient. Cointelegraph's report on her remarks, published on October 17, 2026, describes the digital euro as imminent.
On the digital euro, Lagarde said it would bring more innovation and more competition to retail payments, meaning the everyday payments people make in shops and online. The report gives no launch date and does not explain how the digital euro would work.
For someone already holding a perpetual position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, nothing changes directly. The report does not mention crypto exchanges, perpetual futures, funding rates, trading fees or liquidity. A central bank digital currency for retail payments has no stated link to what these contracts cost to hold.
Source: cointelegraph — Lagarde says euro-area economy is resilient, digital euro imminent
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