With the Flare Network scheduled to carry out an airdrop of Spark Tokens almost a month from now, it has been receiving support from a host of exchanges including Bitrue, Cred, Uphold, and Bitbns. However, there are many exchanges that have not yet confirmed their support of the airdrop, exchanges like Bitstamp. Bitstamp revealed that...Read More
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, made waves across crypto-Twitter recently after he claimed that XRP is to Ripple what Exxon is to Oil on a podcast. Garlinghouse’s use of the analogy is an interesting turn of phrase, to say the least. However, what is even more interesting is that when the host interceded by pointing...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice In a development that was received well by many of its proponents, XRP’s price rose substantially on the charts over the past few days. However, with most altcoins’ price action being dictated by Bitcoin’s...Read More
Unlike Bitcoin, the altcoin market has not been successful in registering record highs. XRP, even though a major alt, has not been able to follow its 2017 trajectory and has been stuck within its known range, while other coins were still in a state of loss in terms of YTD performance. XRP Source: XRP/USD on...Read More
Following the payment protocol – Ripple’s recent launch of its new beta service – dubbed Line of Credit, Ripple could now be working towards introducing a new product. One Twitter user and a dedicated XRP fan found that Ripple has registered a trademark for what could be its new product called “PayString.” The mark consists...Read More
Bitcoin’s price, at the time of writing, continued to remain close to the much-anticipated $16K-level. Owing to their high correlation to the world’s largest cryptocurrency, many of the market’s altcoins benefited as expected. In fact, popular altcoins like XRP, Synthetix, and NEM saw their prices surge over the past week. However, over the last 24-48...Read More
Commodities trader and analyst Peter Brandt said on Twitter that XRP would have been deemed a security if the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulators completely understood the workings of cryptocurrencies. Brandt published his XRP stance in response to a comment by one Twitter user going by the name of Rexiby crypto, who claimed...Read More
The short-term chart of XRP was unique at the moment as the collective asset class itself. The crypto ecospace is used as an invalidation of market patterns in the past, but the recent spike is a clear example of external factors moving the market at an instant, and away from a legitimate opposite trend. XRP...Read More
Bitcoin shares a strong correlation with most cryptocurrency assets. However, this correlation has not yet helped the third-largest digital currency XRP. The digital asset despite much volatility in the extended crypto market has been moving within a strict range and has managed to return 22.23% year-to-date. While the investors wonder when the price of XRP...Read More
Many altcoins registered strong gains in the past few days as their longer-term downward trend appeared to be halted or even reversed in certain cases. XRP faced an important level of resistance, and a close above the level would signal bullish strength. Dogecoin also appeared poised to move above a level of resistance it has...Read More
The altcoins have received a new lease on life, as the price of Bitcoin has surpassed $15k. This price has not been seen after the bull run observed in 2017/18, and as the largest asset tests new resistances, the altcoin market has also been marching. XRP Source: XRP/USD on TradingView The above one hour chart...Read More
Ripple’s Q3 market report revealed that XRP’s average daily volume reported in Q3 was $403.58 million, a considerable increase from $196.28 million in Q2. Source: Q3 2020 XRP Markets Report This volume was inclusive of Line of Credit, a new beta service on RippleNet that allows customers using On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) to source capital on-demand. Regarding Ripple’s...Read More
An analytics firm has claimed today they found an increasing number of reports from XRP holders who seem to be falling victim to a new scam. XRP Forensics published a tweet on 5 November that warned XRP community to “stay alert.” We [XRPlorer] also see an uptick in reports of stolen XRP as a result...Read More
XRP, Dash, and Compound have all had a bad last month. XRP is down the least -2.94% while Dash is down -2.28% and Compound by -29.17%. This is obvious considering bitcoin’s stellar performance in the month of October, which has even outpaced the likes of FAANGs. XRP Source: XRPUSD TradingView XRP is still the fourth-largest...Read More
Bitcoin closed a trading session above $14,000 but was unable to hold on to the level. However, this was still quite a recovery from yesterday’s dip as low as $13,200. XRP and EOS faced strong bearish momentum and could drop to a level of support, while Basic Attention Token appeared likely to lack momentum toward...Read More
While Bitcoin witnessed a minor pullback on the 24-hour window, altcoins collectively witnessed strong corrections. XRP was set back by almost 4%, consolidating right above its immediate resistance. With the market exhibiting extreme turbulence, for XRP’s long-term, the price might find it difficult to rise up in the charts, but not impossible. XRP 12-hour chart...Read More
Ripple Locks 800 Million XRP at Escrow One of the crypto tracker that records the huge and interesting crypto transfers and transactions recently recorded an XRP transaction. According to Whale Alert, nearly 800 million XRP tokens were locked at escrow at Ripple. The escrow is a feature at the XRP Ledger that enables the user...Read More
The bullish sentiment around the crypto-space was unabated at press time as Bitcoin continued to trade above $13,700, its trading accompanied by strong expectations that institutional investors would continue to arrive. XRP broke beneath a bearish pattern and could test a level of support in the coming days. Cosmos registered some gains recently, but whether...Read More
Many in the community have often raised a host of questions about XRP’s viability and utility. Facing one of these questions recently, CTO of Ripple, David Schwartz, stated that a “combination of obstacles” is likely responsible for banks holding back from using XRP as a bridge asset. During an exchange on Twitter, Schwartz commented, “I...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the XRP short-term market and its impact on the price. As the Bitcoin market moved between some tough resistances and support over the past few days and given the strong correlations with the altcoins, XRP, the third-largest crypto has been noting...Read More
Recording a massive single-day drop, investors woke up to a bloodbath in the Synthetix market. At press time the digital asset recorded a loss of almost 20% Monero was displaying weakness in its buying momentum, as its technical indicators remained fairly bearish. XRP too noted the possibility of a downtrend, post its recent losses, as it...Read More
The collective altcoin market is struggling and XRP was no different. While Bitcoin continued to attain new yearly highs, XRP and the rest struggled to breach their immediate resistance. A new yearly high was completely out of the picture at the moment, but analysis suggested that the bullish paradigm might be a little more drawn...Read More
XRP was forming a bullish triangle and could breakout to the upside but there was a notable lack of buying volume in recent days. Tron attempted to break out but bears stood firm, and at press time the bears were in control of the market. BAT was forming a series of lower highs as it...Read More
CEO of crypto payments firm Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse today said that his firm did not plan on following major crypto exchange Coinbase’s new change of policies that does not allow political distractions at work. Coinbase’s new policy, which received much attention, required its employees to avoid getting distracted by political and social issues, and instead...Read More
Ripple partner Terrapay has announced its intention to strengthen its entry in North America with an approved FINTRAC Canada MSB License. This is big news, especially for a sector that is seeing blockchain technology revolutionize itself, especially since as per the World Bank’s data for 2018, the outward remittance value from Canada was as high...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index noted an extremely greedy figure of 76 for the day, a figure that was higher than the previous day’s 73. XRP was forming a bullish pattern right under a level of resistance, while Augur lacked the momentum to move the asset upwards or downwards on the charts. However, it...Read More
XRP’s price broke out of a temporary period of consolidation, with the cryptocurrency, over the past week, establishing a strong uptrend just like many altcoins in the market. However, the question remains whether or not the present bullish momentum in the market will sustain itself and help improve XRP’s price. At press time, XRP was...Read More
As the crypto market displayed strong buying sentiment, the bullish trend added to the valuations of most altcoins for a third consecutive day. Maker gained almost 3.5 % in its valuation since yesterday, signaling bullishness in the short-term period. XRP too sided with the bulls noting some gains on its trading charts. While for Ontology the...Read More
For a while now, Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of San Francisco-based crypto payment company Ripple has been tweeting about the need for regulatory clarity. Garlinghouse revealed that he is considering moving Ripple’s headquarters to London over the lack of clear regulations with regard to cryptocurrencies in U.S. Garlinghouse especially considered relocating to the UK because the...Read More
Ken Kurson, member of payment protocol firm Ripple’s board of directors, was arrested on Friday and has been charged by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn for cyberstalking in connection with his divorce. Authorities have also accused the Ripple board member of sending threatening and stalking messages to several people. Reports state that Kurson allegedly threatened an...Read More
