BIS Tests XRP Ledger to Anchor Official Statistics On-Chain

The Bank for International Settlements has published a working paper presenting a proof of concept that anchors official statistics to their source using the XRP Ledger.

The paper, “Verifiable official statistics: a blockchain-based approach,” was released on 2 September 2026 and describes a method for binding statistical datasets to cryptographic fingerprints recorded on-chain, so a user can confirm both who issued a dataset and that its figures are unchanged.

How the Proof of Concept Works The approach builds on SDMX, the standard the BIS and other international organisations use to exchange statistical data and metadata.

For each published dataset — and, where needed, each individual time series — the authors compute a cryptographic fingerprint. A single summary value covering a batch of datasets is then recorded on the XRP Ledger, where it is timestamped and cannot subsequently be altered.