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The review keeps financing on track but bars publicly funded Bitcoin purchases, leaving transparent accounting and the Chivo wallet unwind as key program tests.
The IMF waiver signals a hard ceiling on sovereign Bitcoin adoption: state-level accumulation now carries a formal multilateral cost that other BTC-holding governments will have to price in.
El Salvador, the only country with Bitcoin as legal tender, needed an IMF waiver to keep accumulating.
The waiver is the real signal: the Fund is letting El Salvador keep stacking BTC under a $1.4B program that was supposed to wind adoption down. Sovereign adoption just got a quiet validation.
The disclosure came with a deal unlocking $140M for El Salvador under its 40-month IMF program, as Bukele's government transferred majority control of Chivo to a private operator.
The IMF just publicly undercut Bukele's daily-purchase narrative: the reserve grew 1,540 BTC, but the documents El Salvador supplied showed private donations, not new public spending.
The IMF's view gives stablecoins a broader financial-infrastructure case, but adoption will still be judged on safeguards and macro stability.
The assessment broadens the issue beyond crypto markets to payments, monetary sovereignty and competition between local currencies and digital-dollar rails.
Islamabad is pitching the ask as a reward for brokering US-Iran diplomacy, while the rupee remains under pressure and IMF talks stall.
The widest gap since 2020 reflects what a weakening pound and a softer Suez toll-revenue base do to a balance of payments still running on IMF support.
The IMF's warning is not about solvency but velocity: in a panic, dollar stablecoins let holders race for the exit faster than any bank can process withdrawals, and reserves may not keep pace.
The Fund's financial counsellor framed tokenization's upside as policy-dependent, not technical. Whether shared digital ledgers become systemic infrastructure or fragmented national silos is now a…
Tobias Adrian's blog post argues that what tokenization gives markets in speed, it takes away in resilience, with no regulator currently equipped to catch a shock in real time.
The IMF framing matters because tokenization stops being a crypto-niche debate and becomes a multilateral endorsement that the existing financial architecture can be rebuilt on chain-based rails.
A 17-month IMF deal required Bukele to stop net BTC accumulation, and the country's public wallets suggest it did, despite the daily-buying optics.
A short, technical disagreement over how Bukele's stack is reported on the books is the latest test of whether the sovereign-Bitcoin experiment survives outside pressure from its largest creditor.
The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that Nigeria's surging stablecoin adoption is "testing the limits" of…
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