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IVMS 101 (Travel Rule messaging)

Information Model Crypto

Initially released in 2020 by the Joint Working Group (JWG) on interVASP Messaging Standards, IVMS 101 is the universal common language for communication of required originator and beneficiary information between VASPs used by all leading Travel Rule solution providers. In April 2023, GBBC Digital Finance (GDF), OpenVASP and VASPnet joined forces to maintain and further develop the existing IVMS 101 standard to create greater consistency and integrity within the crypto ecosystem....

InterVASP / Joint Working Group, from their own opening paragraph

What I make of it

The FATF Travel Rule originator/beneficiary model — a regulation forcing a shared schema on crypto.

Other crypto data models

CAIP (Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals) Code System DTI (Digital Token Identifier) ISO 24165 Code System
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Model Details
Steward InterVASP / Joint Working Group
Layer Information Model
Domain Crypto
Status live
Access Not yet established
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 4/4. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Not established
Assessed 35.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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