News, data and analysis on tokenized assets, market design and digital economic systems.
Created in 1944 and accountable to 191 member countries, the Fund lends with a capacity of about $1tn and in April 2026 published Tokenized Finance, which treats tokenisation as a reallocation of trust from regulated intermediaries towards shared infrastructure.
Created in 1944 and accountable to 191 member countries, the Fund monitors members' economies and advises on policy, lends with a capacity of about $1tn drawn from member quotas, and provides technical assistance. Its April 2026 note Tokenized Finance, by financial counsellor Tobias Adrian, treats tokenisation as a reallocation of trust from regulated intermediaries towards shared infrastructure and programmable logic rather than as an efficiency gain, and separates three forms of digital money: tokenized bank deposits, regulated stablecoins and wholesale central bank digital currency. It identifies fragmentation across incompatible platforms, faster propagation of stress, procyclical automation and threats to monetary sovereignty from global stablecoins as the main risks, and argues central banks must adapt liquidity facilities to markets that settle around the clock.
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The IMF Executive Board concluded its 2026 Article IV consultation with Nigeria on 9 June 2026 and identified stablecoin oversight as a priority. A follow-up IMF country note published on 16 June described stablecoins as a growing cross-border payment channel…
An IMF working paper published on 27 March 2026 examined cross-border stablecoin flows and their effects on emerging-market foreign exchange rates. It found that dollar stablecoin…
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