Latest Ripple News Considering prevailing market conditions, it is clear that it has been a tough week for market participants. With double digit losses and breaks below important support levels, the meltdown was—and continues to be unforgiving. But even as participants despair, XRP did emerge as the winner of the “store of value” race edging…
Blockchain and cryptocurrency, although long posing a promising digital solution to many of the issues associated with archaic monetary and digital systems, may soon be growing out of its “Lambo” and “Crypto Bro Club” phase as the technologies see greater mainstream adoption rates. The recent blockchain week in San Francisco points to the fact that…
The first day of the Ripple’s two-day blockchain conference saw some significant updates. As predicted, the San Francisco event turned out to be the launchpad of Ripple’s cross-border payment system, xRapid. CEO Brad Garlinghouse took the stage to announce that xRapid will go live for the first time with three mainstream financial institutions. Payment providers Mercury…
SBI Holdings, a Japanese company with major banking subsidiaries including SBI Securities, SBI FXTRADE, and SBI Virtual Currencies, has received the green light from Japanese regulatory authorities to move forward with their partnership with US-based Ripple in order to launch a new joint venture called SBI Ripple Asia. The newly approved venture has been in…
Stellar’s XLM surged 17% on Friday as the overall cryptocurrency markets posted gains, led by XRP, which was up 55% on a 24-hour trading period at the time of writing. The price rise of Stellar comes as the cryptocurrency is seeing increased adoption, specifically through IBM’s new cross-border settlement system – World Wire. On Friday,…
The crypto community burst with joy earlier today as cryptocurrency prices surged beyond even their most optimistic expectations. Contrary to what everyone has expected, the new price surge was not sparked by Bitcoin, as it usually happens. This time, the bull run is led by none other than Ripple. XRP Spikes Up After nine months…
56 minutes. That’s the time it took for XRP price to surge 20 percent inevitably causing a frenzy. Though there has been particular news about a Coinbase listing for example, historically, rumors of Coinbase listings trigger swings. Decisive conclusions from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or a confirmed launch of xRapid also played…
Ripple’s settlement system that uses a combination of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies may be going live within the next month or so, according to a statement from a company executive. The product, which utilizes XRP to complete real-time cross border settlements, has already struck some high-profile partnerships, and many investors see it as the main…