XRP

Ripple surprised many listeners at the Swell 2018 conference in San Francisco by announcing that the company’s cross-border payment solution xRapid that utilizes XRP is now commercially available. It will go into production with three different payment service providers. Furthermore, Brad Garlinghouse stated that XRP is 1,000 cheaper and 1,000 times faster than Bitcoin. Ripple [...]

Ripple's Swell Conference 2018 kicked off yesterday with a major announcement. Ripple announced that xRapid is now commercially available and will go into production with multiple customers. The XRP price rose briefly from around 0.54 to nearly 0.60 USD after this announcement. When Ripples CEO Brad Garlinghouse hit the stage yesterday, he initially stated that Ripple [...]

The decline in the price of Ethereum (ETH) surpassed the $170 mark on September 12 – sinking to $166. Ever since then, Ethereum has indicated signs of recovery through its momentum and volume, rallying from $166 - $230 in a period of 30 days. On September 23, the price of ETH hit $255. Could the [...]

Ripple’s Swell Conference will be held for two days starting from today and former US President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker. Some of the world’s experts in technology, finance and politics have also been invited to discuss how to use Blockchain, Ripple, and cryptocurrencies in general. Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the [...]

Ripple (XRP) and Ethereum (ETH) are battling for the second position on CoinMarketCap once again. Last week, Ripple dethroned Ethereum from the second spot. However, the reign was short-lived as Ethereum reclaimed its place back after a few hours. Ripple Price Increases XRP’s price experienced another bullish force today – recording a 5% gain [...]

What is Ripple? Ripple is the name for both an open-source distributed payment network and its native cryptocurrency which is used to transfer currencies. The Ripple network aims to put to rest traditional financial networks such as credit cards, PayPal and wire transfers which are costly, time-consuming and sometimes inaccessible, particularly for cross-border transactions. Ripple [...]

Ripple announced via a post on its “Insights” blog that Thailand’s first domestic bank Siam Commercial Bank (SBC) has become the first financial institution on RippleNet to use the ‘Multi-Hop’ feature. The blockchain startup tweeted this: “@scb_thailand will be the first to use ‘multi-hop’, a key feature on RippleNet that allows financial institutions to forward [...]

San Francisco-based Fintech company Ripple recently released an official statement announcing the launch of their social program, dubbed “Ripple for Good (RfG)". The blockchain startup will commit $105 million in funding a number of projects with much emphasis on education and financial inclusion across the world. Ripple plans to work with RippleWorks. This is a [...]

Ripple (XRP) once again threatened to overthrow Ethereum (ETH) from the number two spot on the CoinMarket rankings following its massive 22 percent price increase in less than a day. In the top ten digital currencies by market cap, only Bitcoin Cash (BCH) outshined Ripple in terms of price performance over the past 24 hours. [...]

Within the last two weeks, cryptocurrencies across the scope of the global market have recovered some lost ground. The likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash have seen green over the past days. Ripple (XRP) has, however, enjoyed more spotlight than its competitors. The price of the coin rose to $0.79 which resulted in over [...]

When new to the cryptocurrency world, one of the first things you will learn while researching “What is Bitcoin?,” is the fact that there are a large number of other cryptocurrencies out there. These digital currencies are called altcoins. The term stands for “alternative to Bitcoin,” and it basically describes every other cryptocurrency that isn’t [...]