Yesterday proved to be a positive day for many cryptocurrencies, as Bitcoin’s fleeting rally allowed most major altcoins to post gains of 3% or more. XRP, which has been struggling to gain momentum over the past few days, attempted to break back into the $0.20 region, although the resistance at this level proved to be...Read More
Ripple has been at the forefront of promoting XRP in different parts of the world through its cross-border payments service. RippleNet has managed to diversify its network with over 300 financial institutions, allowing most of them to use its on-demand liquidity services. Although the price of the digital asset still worries many within the community,...Read More
Analyst, Mati Greenspan sees the XRP price continuing to struggle in the short term due to Ripple sell-offs, and the fact that financial institutions don’t need the token to access the benefits of the Ripple network.Yes. XRP tokenomics is a bit funny that way. The two main issues…1. Ripple holding a large portion of tokens...Read More
A recent statement from an online broker, TD Ameritrade, shows that the firm still hasn’t ruled out adding XRP to its platform, causing the coin’s community to speculate about its potential addition. The adoption of cryptocurrencies continues, and many expect that the following decade will be crucial for the crypto trend. With every little victory...Read More
It is not a secret that altcoins, such as XRP, haven’t done too well in 2019. While Bitcoin (BTC) is up over 90%, starting the year in the $3,000s and now trading at $7,200, a number of leading cryptocurrencies have actually posted losses on the year.Although nearly all asset classes from precious metals to equities...Read More
Ripple price is slowly grinding higher and approaching the $0.2000 resistance against the US dollar.XRP seems to be forming a nice support near the $0.1940 and $0.1925 levels.There is a key rising channel forming with support near $0.1945 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).The price remains well bid and...Read More
The precarious nature of Bitcoin’s recent price action does not lend itself to helping generate bullish price action amongst major altcoins, but one prominent analyst is noting that he believes Ethereum, XRP, and Bitcoin Cash are all decently positioned to see further upside against their USD trading pairs in the near-term.Other analysts concur with this...Read More
Very few companies survived the aftermath of the ICO hype, Ripple is one such company that was inspired by ideologies of Bitcoin and built to make cryptocurrencies better, faster, and more secure. Although the narrative around Ripple and XRP has changed over the years, both have done more than just survive: they have flourished. As...Read More
Looking back at 2019, altcoin XRP witnessed a major drop in its price throughout the year. Currently priced at $0.193, XRP is at its yearly low. Despite XRP’s price, the altcoin stands as the third-largest coin with a market cap of $8.39 billion. Additionally, Grayscale’s report also suggested that XRP had gained “momentum among both...Read More
A look at the price movement chart for XRP since its inception showed little price action over the last year. 2019 saw a yearly high of around $0.50, a dismal price-tag compared to 2018’s high of $3.31. It had breached under the $0.20 mark earlier this month and has had some trouble recovering from the...Read More
The CEO of fintech company Ripple is now offering a bold prediction for what the new year holds in store for the cryptocurrency markets, as he believes that the market-wide purge that was largely anticipated to occur in 2019 will actually take place in 2020.This market-wide “consolidation” trend that he anticipates to occur in the...Read More
As the year comes close to an end, it is the time for retrospection and reflection: the same holds for XRP, which holds its position as the third-largest cryptocurrency. XRP has managed to retain its community despite its shaky track record when it comes to price performance. This article takes a look back at XRP...Read More
XRP hasn’t done too hot over the past few months, both in terms of its performance against the U.S. dollar and against Bitcoin. Even over the past year, the third-largest altcoin has collapsed by 50%, underperforming the leading cryptocurrency by a massive margin.Despite this, an analyst is starting to believe that the price of XRP...Read More
Fake volumes became a hot topic in 2019. It all started with the Bitwise Asset Management report that was released earlier this year. The report stated that nearly 95% of Bitcoin trading volume reported by CoinMarketCap, a popular go-to website for crypto data, was fake. According to the report, CoinMarketCap reported roughly $6 billion per...Read More
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have become immensely popular and this has cast a spotlight on the underlying decentralized ledger technology – blockchain. Blockchain tech has taken the world by storm and its landscape has been evolving at a rapid pace. This technology has been both attractive and critical for ensuring enhanced security and as well as...Read More
Ten years on since Bitcoin’s inception great minds have flocked into the space. While a few of the cryptocurrencies happened to be forks of the king coin with negligible market cap, others have survived purely because it addressed unique offerings. Along with market capitalization, investor appetite and institutional coverage for cryptocurrencies have increased exponentially. However,...Read More
A recent episode of The Ripple Drop saw executives give their predictions on the state of the crypto world in 2020 and beyond. Ripple Team Looks to the Future Ripple has recently released a special holiday episode of ‘The Ripple Drop’, which looks back on the things that impacted the crypto and blockchain industry over...Read More
Ripple price is now trading well below the $0.2000 and $0.1950 supports against the US dollar.XRP is facing hurdles, while bitcoin and Ethereum are declining steadily.There is a connecting bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.1890 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).The price could continue to decline unless...Read More
After touching a low of $0.175 on December 18, XRP’s performance over the rest of 2019 seems much more digestible. For the period between January and April, XRP consolidated between $0.30 and $0.32, only to rise to $0.50 by June. The coin has been on a steady decline since then, with only a couple of...Read More
The crypto investors seem to not really care about the real potential XRP has which was noticed by some of the analysts and economists after Ripple’s XRP had its worst year from a technical perspective, ending the year on a low note as reported in the XRP news. Although the bearishness of the asset is...Read More
Looking back at 2019, it is quite evident how Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance paved its way across various sectors and geographies. With global expansion as one of its major goals this year, the Changpeng Zhao-led exchange focused on other developments as well. Throughout the year, the platform ventured into several other countries in order to...Read More
Grayscale, an institutional crypto asset management company, recently released a report analyzing XRP’s coin history, protocol, price, transaction speed and more. According to the report, the early developers of the XRP Ledger focused on creating a fast protocol that challenged established financial systems. Grayscale found that Ripple is less decentralized than BTC and ETH, although...Read More
It’s no secret that XRP – the digital currency with close ties to FinTech company Ripple – hasn’t had the best year from a technical perspective, ending the year on a low note after recently setting fresh post-2017 bull run lows.Although this bearishness may or may not be justified while considering its fundamental utility and...Read More
After a ~26% rise in value between the 17th and 18th of September, XRP’s 33% crash over the next 6 days shook the community, as the coin saw lows last seen over two years prior. Despite a relatively impressive boost from $0.22 to more than $0.31 over the next month and a half, it’s safe...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, author at RoboForex Blog On Tuesday, December 24th, the XRP stopped falling. It is generally trading around $0.19. On D1, XRP/USD keeps developing a downtrend after the renewal of the previous minimum. The main goal of the current movement is the psychologically important level of $0.1000. Convergence on the MACD signals a...Read More
Ripple price is still struggling to gain momentum and declining below $0.1920 against the US dollar.Yesterday, XRP failed to rise substantially, while bitcoin and Ethereum climbed more than 5%.Recently, there was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $0.1955 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).There...Read More
XRP has been facing some bearish price action in recent times despite the ongoing recovery seen across the aggregated crypto markets and the increasing investments that Ripple is making to further enhancing the token’s utility.Analysts are noting that this lackluster price action is likely to result in further downside for XRP in the near-term, with...Read More
In another boost for the XRP ecosystem, Bitrue, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange announced that it will soon list 27 new XRP pairs on its platform. With XRP as the base pair, the first 14 coins to be paired with it will be opened for deposits and withdrawals starting on 23rd December. The official blog post...Read More
XRP was not among the gainers as the cryptocurrency market attracted capital of up to $12 billion in a day.The Ripple blockchain’s native asset slumped by up to 2.19 percent on Monday to establish an intraday low of $0.194. The downside move negated XRP’s gains – registered during the Sunday trading session – by 1.38...Read More
Ripple’s ODL corridor to Australia was tested for over a year before its CEO, Brad Garlinghouse announced the gateway will go live Via FlashFX, an Australian Exchange. However, the ODL service has been noting minimal transactions, pointing out that the corridor has not been activated yet. Meanwhile, Flash FX expanded its ODL service to the...Read More