We’re excited to announce a brand new partnership with the Republic of Palau to discover the nation’s first nationwide digital forex and its use instances with the XRP Ledger (XRPL).
The partnership will initially concentrate on creating methods for cross-border funds and a USD-backed digital forex for Palau. This might see the implementation of the world’s first government-backed nationwide stablecoin within the first half of 2022 for which Ripple would offer Palau with technical, enterprise, design and coverage help. In the meantime, exploring a USD-backed stablecoin and related use instances—equivalent to a company registry—on the XRP Ledger may present a viable various to central financial institution digital currencies (CBDCs) for international locations like Palau.
“As a part of our dedication to guide in monetary innovation and applied sciences, we’re delighted to accomplice with Ripple,” mentioned President Surangel Whipps Jr. “The primary part of the partnership will concentrate on a cross-border funds technique and exploring choices to create a nationwide digital forex, offering the residents of Palau with higher monetary entry.”
Palau understands the potential for monetary applied sciences—together with blockchain—to rework its economic system and place the nation as a extremely fascinating nation to do enterprise with. The identical applied sciences will even remodel how its residents entry monetary companies and allow environment friendly cross-border remittances.
As a longtime leader within the international local weather debate, Palau selected Ripple due to its intensive expertise in blockchain and constructing international fee programs, and the XRP Ledger as a result of it’s carbon-neutral and 120,000x extra energy-efficient than proof-of-work blockchains. What’s extra, the XRPL offers important advantages equivalent to scalability, pace and low price.
“We’re excited to be working with Palau to realize its monetary and climate-related objectives,” mentioned James Wallis, VP of Central Financial institution Engagements at Ripple. “We’ve an exquisite alternative to carry collectively our know-how and expertise with the distinctive traits of Palau to make an actual financial and social influence for the nation.”
The XRP Ledger offers monetary establishments and authorities our bodies equivalent to Palau the flexibility to totally settle transactions for fractions of a penny and in simply 3-5 seconds. Up to now, greater than 5,400 currencies have been issued and traded on the XRP Ledger through its built-in decentralized exchange (DEX) and customized token functionality that makes it straightforward to create, concern and handle any asset—together with stablecoins.
