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The International Monetary Fund has assessed blockchain-based finance as a potential force for streamlining markets and reshaping how settlement works, while warning that fragmented regulations and standards could generate systemic risks of their own.
The Fund's position puts institutional weight behind the efficiency argument for tokenization — and an equally firm caveat behind the stability question.
What the IMF Is Actually Arguing The IMF's case is that tokenization — converting claims on financial assets into digital tokens recorded on distributed ledgers — could streamline market infrastructure.
Settlement is the specific mechanism the Fund highlights. Traditional securities settlement runs on layered intermediaries, each adding time and counterparty exposure between trade and finality.
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