{"id":529,"date":"2022-02-18T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stellarwallet.co\/arts\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:53:29","slug":"stellar-and-ripple-new-imf-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stellarwallet.co\/arts\/stellar-and-ripple-new-imf-document.html","title":{"rendered":"Stellar (XLM) and Ripple (XRP) are mentioned in a new IMF document"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stellar and Ripple appeared in the IMF document<\/strong><\/h2>\n

XRP has always been a cryptocurrency that has caused much debate, <\/span>discussion and even mystical interpretation<\/b>s. Regardless of how you feel about it, there has been a lot of information coming out lately that makes you feel like you are part of a conspiracy theory.<\/span><\/p>\n

The World Bank recently published a report naming Ripple and Stellar as stablecoins, and now members of the XRP community have turned their attention to another document.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most recently, on January 26, 2022, the <\/span>International Monetary Fund<\/span><\/a> (IMF) released a document, <\/span>Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms, a primer for global supervisors<\/b>. The gist of the document is that it describes the differences between PoW, PoS, DPoS and fBFT <\/span>(Stellar and Ripple are given as examples<\/b>), and provides guidance to supervisors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The document was spotted by a Twitter user, and he went on to write the following important points about the document in his <\/span>post<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conclusions from the document that are noteworthy:<\/span><\/p>\n