A viral thread listed eight cryptocurrencies supposedly adopted by governments, but the reality proves far more modest: Palau tested XRP with 154 civil servants and three shops, Ukraine suspended its e-hryvnia project in October 2025, and the Marshall Islands officially repealed its national SOV currency in August 2025. The only genuine case of state-level crypto adoption remains Bitcoin, made legal tender by El Salvador in 2021 before abandoning it under IMF pressure in February 2025, and Bhutan which mined Bitcoin since 2019 through its sovereign fund before selling off 70 % of its holdings since 2025. The common thread among these eight cryptos is not government trust but their technical compatibility with the ISO 20022 standard, whose migration Swift completed on November 22, 2025, structurally excluding Bitcoin which was never designed to carry banking metadata.
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