Most people skimmed the headline and moved on. Almost nobody caught what they were actually saying. BIS dropped Working Paper 1374. Off-chain hashing. Merkle aggregation. A tiny XRPL memo that anchors only the fingerprint. Raw official stats never touch the ledger. One lookup to verify. That’s it. Then they pointed to zero-knowledge proofs as the next extension. That’s the part most people missed. Ripple President Monica Long already framed the same idea for identity on XRPL: your data as a portable, user-controlled token, powered by zero-knowledge proofs. DNA Protocol just put that architecture live on XRPL testnet for identity and credentials. Sensitive institutional data stays hidden. What hits the chain is a portable token: XDNA. Same pattern the BIS prototype just published for official statistics: prove it without exposing it. Once you see the overlap, you can’t unsee it. https://t.co/usoAyZ3GRk