Crypto fund manager Bitwise announced that the firm’s Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund has liquidated its position in XRP. Recently, US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Ripple and two of its executives that they allegedly raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered, “ongoing” securities offering. Bitwise’s decision was a result of the SEC charges. The firm...Read More
The United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission’s legal action against Ripple and its CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, and co-founder Chris Larsen have spelled trouble for XRP. Amid falling prices and speculation in the market, prominent digital asset exchange OSL suspended all XRP payments and trading services. The tweet from OSL read: “Please note: In light of...Read More
Soon after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that SEC was planning to sue the firm over its sale of XRP, Billionaire investor and Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz took to Twitter to speak about the recent developments. On 22 December, Novogratz said that he found it strange that Jay Clayton “waited years” to sue Ripple....Read More
Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced that the company is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] and highlighted that this step taken by the SEC was an “attack of crypto”. Unsurprisingly, the SEC’s lawsuit is based on the fact that Ripple is selling unregistered securities and is yet to be announced. A step back...Read More
Bitcoin had dropped from $23,980 to $22,900, at the time of writing, with BTC wicking as low as $22,400. On the other hand, XRP was unable to rise past the $0.6-region and faced pressure from sellers, pressure that could see XRP revisit $0.5 once more. IOTA plunged under two of its short-term moving averages, but...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice XRP’s price hasn’t really fared well since the start of December. While the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin managed to go past key resistance levels, the price of XRP continued to trade within the confines...Read More
Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer [CTO], David Schwartz had announced an upgrade to the XRP Ledger [XRPL] back in November. Schwartz has now shared the first results of the major performance optimization of the ledger. Calling the results “incredibly encouraging” Ripple’s CTO spoke about combining different performance optimizations proposed by various software engineers. The CTO added...Read More
Global trade finance bank, Euro Exim is working with Ripple to connect banks, payment providers, and digital asset exchanges via RippleNet. Euro Exim is a class A International Banking Financial institution incorporated under the revised laws of St. Lucia, which authorizes it to conduct business with third parties across industries worldwide. The bank has implemented...Read More
Ripple partnered with MoneyGram, one of the world’s biggest remittance and payment companies in the United States in June 2019. Since then, the two parties have managed to report tremendous growth due to the partnership, and Alex Holmes, the chairman, and CEO of MoneyGram International [MGI] highlighted a few aspects of this growth in a...Read More
The Bitcoin market reached an all-time high as it went past the $22k price level and due to Bitcoin’s high correlation with altcoins, most major alts such as XRP, Monero, and Dogecoin saw a strong surge in their respective trading price. XRP Source: XRP/USD on TradingView The XRP market had noted high volatility towards the...Read More
XRP’s price drop over the past few days was expected. After registering a massive bullish rally towards the end of November, the asset has declined a bit over the past few days. December hasn’t been kind and currently, the asset is looking to re-test a critical support. At press time, XRP was valued at $0.4504...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance is one of the biggest drivers behind its institutional interest and mainstream adoption. However, in anticipation of an altcoin rally, it was observed that Ethereum and XRP’s dominance rose 1.1% and 2.6% respectively, based on data from CoinGecko’s report. Against Bitcoin’s gradual price rally, Ethereum’s price increased by over 50% in November and...Read More
XRPL Labs’ account, after coming under scrutiny, has been banned by Twitter. The founder of the XRPL Labs, Wietse Wind brought to attention the silence maintained by Twitter over the issue, despite raising multiple tickets on the matter. On 15 December, Wind took to Twitter and noted: “@TwitterSupport How about some decency for once? Reply...Read More
Bitfinex has added four new assets on Bitfinex Borrow, its peer-to-peer (P2P) digital token lending/borrowing platform. The latest digital assets added, including XRP, Litecoin LTC, EOS and Polkadot DOT, can act as collateral to obtain crypto and fiat loans. 📣 On Bitfinex Borrow you can now get a loan using the following collateral: XRP ($XRP)Litecoin...Read More
In anticipation of the airdrop of Spark tokens, the number of addresses holding XRP rose dramatically recently. At the time of writing, it was still unclear what effect this development would have on the cryptocurrency’s price. Further down the crypto-ladder, while NEM witnessed a bullish reversal and tested the $0.252-resistance level, VeChain registered a bullish...Read More
XRP holders will see an airdrop of 45 billion Spark tokens on 12 December. Any owner of XRP tokens will receive the token in a 1:1 ratio, which by extension means that there could be 100 billion Spark tokens created. This will be carried out by the Flare Network, an airdrop backed by Ripple’s investment...Read More
Ripple CTO David Schwartz Ripple is in the news after he commented on Ripple’s strategy for expansion and enterprise adoption of payment solutions during the recent Uphold webinar. More specifically, Schwartz explained the reasons why this has been Ripple’s focus for the past few years. According to the exec, the separation of payments and settlements...Read More
One of the leading International banking groups, Standard Chartered has taken its first step towards cryptocurrency. Its innovation arm, SC Ventures announced a partnership with Northern Trust to launch an institutional-grade custody solution for cryptocurrencies, called Zodia Custody. Many banking groups around the world have already ventured into crypto in some form or another. Reports...Read More
FRMO Corp., a reputed financial risk management company, is in the news today after it recently made a case for investing in cryptocurrencies, particularly XRP, via its latest Shareholder letter. Highlighting the fact that the United States’ M-2 money supply had risen to $18.259 trillion at the time of writing, FRMO claimed that the crypto-business...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice The XRP market has once again been moving higher up the price ladder and given the momentum witnessed in the Bitcoin market, the price could witness a boost. At press time, the XRP price...Read More
Chief Technology Officer at Ripple and XRP Ledger architect David Schwartz said that XRP community could force the burning of billions of XRP in holding. Recently, a Twitter user asked Schwartz whether the nodes, validators, and community members of XRP Ledger could burn more than 50 billion XRP in escrow. In a tweet, published on...Read More
Ripple has been working hard to increase crypto adoption using the digital asset, XRP, and striving to find use cases, beyond just an investment. As scheduled, Ripple received 1 billion XRP from escrow on 1 December, which was paid to it in three installments of 500 million, 400 million, and 100 million. Whale Alert, tracks...Read More
Bitcoin reached its all-time high on many exchanges a few hours ago and was trading at $19,371 at press time. XRP and Dash had buyer interest and momentum behind them and moved back toward their local highs. IOTA saw some indecision in the market, and at the time of writing was headed for a minor...Read More
The altcoin markets appeared ambivalent in the short-term, at press time, after registering a sharp drop followed by moderate recovery on the charts. XRP held steady over a level of support and its recent pullback was not enough to change the bullish outlook for XRP on the longer timeframe. Zcash sent some mixed signals while...Read More
With the crypto-market rally finally gathering steam over the past few months, many expect the likes of Ripple to take the next step forward. A similar thought process was recently shared by Asheesh Birla, GM of RippleNet, after he appeared on the latest edition of the Lend Academy podcast to explain why Ripple’s Line of...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice XRP’s value has moved up the price scale after months of restricted movement. The value of the third-largest digital asset reached $0.7852, after which the value began to decline. The world’s third-largest crypto,...Read More
Ripple and MoneyGram announced a strategic partnership in 2019. A year later, Ripple is selling roughly one-third of its stake in MoneyGram. This was the first time Ripple has taken such a step. According to a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC], Ripple owns 6.22 million shares [8.6% of outstanding shares]...Read More
With a drop in Bitcoin’s price in the past 48-hours, most of the market’s altcoins have been facing strong corrections. At press time Bitcoin was being traded at $17,058, with a trading volume of $33 billion. Source: CoinStats For popular altcoins like XRP, Monero, Dogecoin this bearish pressure in BTC’s movement has resulted in major...Read More
CEO of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse spoke about crypto regulation today and shared his views about what it would mean to Ripple if US regulators were to declare XRP as a security. Garlinghouse went on to state that if the SEC deems XRP a security, US citizens would require a broker-dealer license to trade the crypto....Read More
Ripple has been the torchbearer of crypto-related payment solutions using the digital asset XRP. With Ripple expanding its reach globally and connecting niche countries, it has been gaining more and more prominence with every passing year. Interestingly, it would now seem that Ripple’s growing reach has been intimidating existing solution providers like SWIFT. In fact,...Read More
