Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), shared a photo on X this week capturing the Golden Gate Bridge during her time in San Francisco.
Responding to her post, XRP community members began connecting her presence in the city to the absence of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse at the GENIUS Act signing event held in the White House.
This theory gained traction when Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse was notably absent from the recent White House signing of the GENIUS Act, which establishes the first comprehensive federal framework for stablecoin regulation in the U.S.
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Improving Clarity for Cryptocurrencies in the U.S.
Ripple’s Chief Legal Officer, Stuart Alderoty, attended the signing ceremony on July 18, where President Trump signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act into law. This marked a major step forward in clarifying the legal environment for digital assets.
Two other crypto-related bills, the Clarity for Digital Tokens Act and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, also passed the House but remain pending in the Senate. The Clarity Act seeks to define when a digital asset is a security or commodity, while the Anti-CBDC Act would prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a retail central bank digital currency.
While Garlinghouse celebrated this development, he was absent from the event. With the IMF’s managing director in San Francisco, one community member jokingly suggested that Garlinghouse had more important business to attend to, suggesting a secret meeting with representatives from the IMF.
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Is Ripple Working With the IMF?
While there is no official confirmation of a meeting between both parties, some see it as a plausible scenario given the IMF’s prior comments on XRP.
In 2023, an IMF document discussed the potential of digital assets, including XRP, to improve cross-border payments and address inefficiencies in existing systems. Garlinghouse has also previously made a case for XRP to the IMF and the Swiss National Bank.
The timing also coincides with growing regulatory clarity in the US. With the GENIUS Act now signed and other legislation progressing, Ripple’s positioning as a cross-border payments solution provider could benefit from high-level discussions with global financial institutions.
For now, however, this remains informal speculation. Still, for XRP enthusiasts, the possibility of a Ripple and IMF alignment carries significance and may happen down the line as XRP’s global relevance increases.
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