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February 22, 2026

Could the IMF Include XRP in the SDR Basket?

A viewer asked: Given XRP's potential role in crossborder settlement and liquidity management, do you think the IMF might eventually include it in the special drawing rights or SDR basket? This recording is Jake Claver's answer, in full and unedited.

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What this recording covers

Jake Claver evaluates the technical and macroeconomic feasibility of the International Monetary Fund incorporating a digital asset like XRP into its Special Drawing Rights basket. He references earlier institutional research published by the organization regarding exchange rate pegging mechanisms across cross-border settlement corridors. Claver explains the formal structural requirements governing the international reserve asset, noting that inclusion requires an asset to be adopted as an official national currency by a sovereign state whose gross domestic product ranks among the largest economies globally. Given these stringent economic criteria, he considers direct inclusion in the reserve basket improbable in the near term. Instead, Claver suggests that international monetary authorities are far more likely to utilize distributed ledger assets as neutral exchange rate pegs and bridge liquidity mechanisms, enabling seamless foreign exchange settlement between distinct sovereign currencies across global banking rails.

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