Ripple News
Bad News For Ripple As Visa Enters Cross-Border Payments Market
Visa has launched a blockchain-based platform for cross-border payments between financial institutions. This sees it enter the increasingly crowded marketplace that Ripple has been...
Big Banks Announce Fiat-Pegged ‘XRP Killer’ Crypto For...
Banking giants in the U.S., Japan, and across Europe have created a consortium that will use cryptocurrency technology in cross-border transfers. The move also presents a direct...
XRP Surges as Coinbase Adds Full Support for New York Residents
Coinbase, the San Francisco based exchange, announced XRP trading is now available to Coinbase users residing in New York. XRP Trading on Coinbase in NY Coinbase launched XRP as a new...
Bitcoin is 11 Times ‘Faster’ Than Litecoin, New Data...
One of the most common criticisms leveled against Bitcoin is that it is slow, at least compared to newer imitations. But its level of decentralization means just 6 transaction...
Why Consortium Blockchains are Failing
Consortium blockchains have shown their failures throughout recent history. From R3 Corda’s crippled partnerships with its banking partnerships to the agonizingly slow...
47% Rate Bitcoin as ‘Favorite Coin’ Over Ethereum...
In a study by the news website Value Walk, it claimed that 46.7% of people prefer investing in Bitcoin over other cryptocurrencies. While the publication’s headline was a claim...
New Binance Report Calls Ripple’s XRP the ‘Best...
A new Binance Research report highlights the correlation between various cryptocurrency ‘clusters’ – concluding that Ripple’s XRP token offers a...
Bitcoin Price Sparks Altcoin Bloodbath As Ripple CTO Quietly Dumps...
Bitcoin price suddenly fell $150 April 24 in an abrupt end to its latest bullish advance which has triggered a major altcoin sell-off. Bitcoin Price Corrects From 2019 High Data from...
Weiss Ratings: Bitcoin Best Positioned to Become a Popular Store of...
Weiss Crypto Ratings released the names of cryptocurrencies it considers most likely to succeed in 2019. The independent ratings agency has given Bitcoin an A...
Ripple CEO Skeptical of JP Morgan’s New Cryptocurrency
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse questioned the purpose and the overall utility of the recently announced cryptocurrency JPMCoin. He also outlined the positives aspects of major financial...
Did Ripple Pay Coinbase to Break Its Own Policy and List XRP?
As XRP trading went fully live on Coinbase Pro, a new report outlines that the cryptocurrency exchange has violated its very own listing framework. Coinbase Breaching Its Own Rules...
XRP Ledger Version 1.2.0 Announced Following JPM Coin FUD Storm
On Feb 13, 2019, Ripple officially announced the release of XRP Ledger version 1.2.0. The newest version of the ‘decentralized’ peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptographic ledger...
Ripple CEO Says JPMorgan’s ‘Cryptocurrency’ Misses...
JPMorgan is already facing severe criticism from the cryptocurrency industry just a day after it announced it would launch its own token, ‘JPM Coin.’ Garlinghouse: JPM Coin...
Germany’s Second-Largest Exchange Launches Regulated...
A new cryptocurrency-trading app from Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, Boerse Stuttgart, has officially launched. The free app, called BISON, affords users the ability...
XRP Price Pumps As SWIFT Partners With Ripple Rival R3
The CEO of SWIFT revealed today that the institution is working on a proof-of-concept for integrating blockchain start-up’s R3 trade finance platform with SWIFT’s GPI...
Ripple Sold $535 Million in XRP Last Year
Ripple recently released its final quarterly performance for 2018 showing total XRP sales of $535.56 million for the whole of 2018. XRP sales decreased in the fourth quarter of 2018...