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Preface: The Two Sides of a “Legacy Brand” In the previous 17 editions, we investigated a series of exchanges ranging from HashKey to BigONE. Today, in the 18th edition, we turn our attention to a true “ancient beast” of the crypto world — Poloniex. Its résumé could be described as a “living fossil among crypto exchanges”: “Founded in 2014,” “12 years of operating history,” “one of the earliest exchanges to introduce Proof of Reserves (PoR),” “maintaining a reserve ratio above 100% for 20 consecutive months,” “a $100 million user protection fund,” “daily trading volume exceeding $1.1 billion in April 2026, surpassing Bitget and MEXC,” “supporting more than 350 cryptocurrencies” — doesnt that sound like the perfect image of a “long-established and reliable major exchange”? But on the other side of the story: The Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA) issued a public warning in March 2026, stating that the company operating Poloniex had already been dissolved on January 1, 2022, and was no longer a legitimate legal entity. The U.S. SEC previously fined Poloniex $10 million, accusing it of knowingly operating an unregistered securities trading platform. Indias Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) ordered Poloniex to be blocked for violating anti-money laundering regulations. Trustpilot gave Poloniex a score of only 2.0/5,

A Bank for International Settlements (BIS) working paper tests the $XRP Ledger (XRPL) as a proof-of-concept for verifying official statistics on-chain, recording cryptographic fingerprints of public datasets that publish in three to five seconds and verify in one to two. The Working Paper No 1374 essentially asks how statistical agencies can give users an independent way to check the origin and integrity of published data without changing their existing dissemination systems. International organizations (the BIS among them) rely on the SDMX standard to exchange official statistics, and the prototype binds each SDMX dataset to its source by hashing it and writing a single summary value to the ledger. Though only the fingerprints reach the chain, never the underlying numbers, so confidential data stays off-ledger, and the method extends to formats such as XBRL. The BIS has tested public blockchains before, including Project Mariana, which trialed wholesale central bank digital currency settlement on a public chain with the central banks of France, Singapore, and Switzerland. The system normalizes each file with Canonical XML 1.1, hashes it with SHA3-512 at the whole-file and per-series level, and collapses those hashes into one Merkle root written to the Memos field of an XRPL Payment transaction. Each file also
The $XRP community has continued to buzz with discussions after the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) decided to put the $XRP Ledger to the test. The move has also sparked reactions from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who expressed that the BIS testing with the $XRP Ledger is not much of a surprise, considering the $XRP Ledgers outstanding capabilities. BIS Verifies XRPLs Authenticity In his post, Garlinghouse questioned the community whether BIS testing with the $XRP Ledger is any surprise, suggesting that such a move was expected considering that XRPL passes a standard checklist for an efficient network system. As such, he believes that an institution like the BIS, which focuses on using blockchain technology to verify official statistical data without placing the underlying datasets directly on-chain, is expected to consider exploring the $XRP Ledger. To further support his claims, Garlinghouse spotlighted three of XRPLs features he believes make the network suitable for institutional use. He highlighted the $XRP Ledgers low fees, fast settlement, and a proven track record. The CEOs statement has also sparked discussion, as many industry experts resonated with his statement, further declaring that the BIS testing with the $XRP Ledger was not a surprise. $XRP Ledger Capabilities Explored While the BIS test marks a major