The IMF named XRP before Ripple did. Jake Claver, recorded June 2026.
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What this recording covers
Claver discusses historical documentation from international monetary institutions and the rebranding history of the digital asset XRP. In 2014, the International Monetary Fund published a research white paper that referenced the acronym XRP in connection with exchange rate pegging mechanisms. Around the time of that publication, Ripple updated the asset's naming convention. The token had originally evolved from XNS under OpenCoin to Ripples before adopting the formal ticker XRP in 2014. Claver connects this institutional publication timeline to Ripple's ongoing corporate consultations with international financial organizations and multilateral regulatory bodies. He explains that these historical interactions and naming alignments reflect long-term coordination between ledger developers and global financial institutions exploring distributed ledger technology for international exchange systems.
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