6th December 2025 > > The IMF & LINK.
- Mark Timmis
- 3 hours ago
- 3 min read
tl;dr
The IMF embarrasses itself once again. Chainlink has more good news for holders of LINK.
Market Snap
Market Wrap
Volatility is back and likely to increase as we get nearer to the next round of interest rate manipulation by the hapless Jerome Powell.
Occasional Series – Face Masks. But please look away if you can be “triggered” …
There is no room in any civilised society for face masks, with the honourable exception of those kinds of parties, the fun ones, if you know what I mean.
If you try to justify using face masks for religious reasons, we all know you are undoubtedly misogynistic, and probably racist.
If you try to justify using face masks for health reasons, we all know you are an obsessive control freak, who places no value on liberty, freedom, and democracy.
How is it that taxpayers’ money is being frivolously wasted by our elected leaders on this tool for oppression and control:
Note to digital nomads – get out now whilst you can.
Curious Crypto’s Commentary – The IMF
The research team at CC Towers makes no secret of its disdain for the bureaucratic mindset embodied in such institutions as the IMF, an organisation which prides itself on keeping poor people poor. It is one of those supranational bodies so beloved by certain types of politicians whose primary ambition is to join the technocratic elite rather than do what they are supposed to do, which is to serve the country, not their party, nor themselves.
The IMF has released a report into stablecoins, and the rules and regulations around stablecoins:
The paper opens with a comparison of stablecoins to that other tool of control and oppression, CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies). At no point does the IMF even obliquely refer to all the downsides of CBDCs, nor any of the upsides inherent to public blockchains. It even proudly refers to its attempts to help the adoption of CBDCs, in a forlorn attempt to hold back the crypto revolution, a revolution that will likely make the IMF even less relevant in the future than it is today:
“The IMF has been supporting countries in their evaluation of CBDC by providing capacity development and policy analysis .(sic) The IMF CBDC Virtual Handbook aims to collect and share knowledge, lessons, empirical findings, and frameworks to address policymakers’ most frequently asked questions on CBDCs.”
When the bureaucrats can’t even get their punctuation correct, one really begins to question why we spend so much money on them.
Fifty-five pages later, there is nothing in this report that adds anything at all to the sum of human knowledge. It takes every opportunity it can to deride stablecoins, claiming that they are a threat to financial stability by disintermediating regulated banks, almost as if the plethora of addition financial regulations since the GFC nearly two decades ago haven’t been specifically designed to do exactly that by carving out a shadow banking system for which regulators and politicians can legitimately claim they have no jurisdiction over.
The conclusion of the report is somewhat confused and woolly, though the IMF’s fears of its own demise are unintentionally made plain:
“The use of foreign currency-denominated stablecoins, especially in cross-border contexts, could lead to currency substitution and potentially undermine monetary sovereignty, particularly in the presence of unhosted wallets.”
Its ambitions are clear – the IMF wants to be the body charged with creating global regulations for stablecoins, an outcome that would undoubtedly be used restrict their adoption to make the path clear for CBDCs.
Be scared, be very scared, of what these people want to do to us, given half the chance.
Curious Crypto’s Commentary – Chainlink
Yet another initiative involving Chainlink which can only be of benefit to its native token LINK:
The RWA Consortium aims to be at the forefront of the tokenisation revolution. Mike Cagney, Founder and Executive Chairman of Figure, nails exactly why TradFi is about to be fundamentally disrupted:
"For the first time, a DeFi user with $100 can participate in the same loan pools as major financial institutions, earning yields from real lending activity with full transparency and instant liquidity.”
With an 11,000% return in just over six years on the CC’s first ever LINK investment allied to an ongoing purchase programme, LINK will remain a core investment for the CC Treasury over the long term.
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