XRP is one of the handful of crypto-assets that has outperformed Bitcoin in the latest market-wide rally. Traders are placing their bets on a potential victory for the blockchain firm Ripple’s multi-year legal battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with a ruling expected in April. In the past two weeks alone, XRP...Read More
The Central Bank of Montenegro (CBCG) has partnered with real-time payment protocol Ripple to develop a strategy to launch the country’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot. According to a press release, the collaboration aligns with the central bank’s objectives, aimed at further digitizing the financial services sector in Montenegro and granting its citizens access...Read More
Scott Chamberlain – a former US lawyer and co-founder of EvernodeXRPL – thinks the main obstacle that stops XRP’s price from surging is the SEC’s claim that the token classifies as security. On the other hand, Ripple – the entity which issues the coin – has maintained that XRP should be treated as a commodity....Read More
XRP has been defying the market-wide decline as it continued its impressive recovery for the month. The asset – that is at the center of the Ripple lawsuit brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – has surged by nearly 13% over the past day alone. XRP Surges to 10-Month High According to...Read More
The Twitter account of one of the leading news channels in India – News24 – became a victim of a recent cryptocurrency scheme. Hackers breached their security to post phishing links of a fake XRP drop, urging people to click and potentially get conned. Crypto scammers have previously compromised the Twitter account of India’s Prime...Read More
The Canadian University of Dubai (CUD) partnered with Binance to enable students to pay their fees in digital currencies. With the recent collaboration, the exchange dived deeper into the local ecosystem. It received a cryptocurrency license from Dubai’s regulators in September last year. Settling the Semesters in Crypto The world’s leading crypto platform disclosed the...Read More
2022 saw many crypto-assets lose value, prompting investors to pull their money from the market. During turbulent times, inflows plummeted massively. According to the latest report by CoinShares, the digital asset inflow was recorded at $433 million, the lowest in four years. The last time figures were hovering near the current level was in 2018,...Read More
Despite the rally during the past couple of weeks, the cryptocurrency took a beating today. Bitcoin’s price plunged by more than 5%, dropping $20K. The total liquidations on a 24-hour scale have reached around $360 million. The recent rally brought hopes to many that the crypto winter might be coming to an end, but this...Read More
On Oct. 27, Ripple released its Q3 Markets Report stating that its holdings of XRP have dropped below 50% for the first time. The company proudly stated that it is becoming more decentralized contrary to what critics have claimed. It said the ownership of XRP is not an indicator that Ripple controls XRP Ledger (XRPL)....Read More
In an announcement on a RippleX Developers portal on Oct. 17, engineer Mayukha Vadari said that the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain for XRPL was now live on devnet. The system to bring more Ethereum compatibility to Ripple was initially introduced in September 2021, but it has now finally been launched for wider testing and...Read More
At an event for DC Fintech Week on Tuesday, the CEO of Ripple Labs, Brad Garlinghouse, noted that he expects the court to give its verdict on the case in the first half of 2023. “I think we’ll have an answer in the first half of next year. Whether that’s the first quarter or second...Read More
Ripple has filed a motion seeking dismissal of the suit ahead of the trial in federal court in Manhattan. The blockchain firm contended that the crypto-asset at the center of the ongoing legal battle – XRP – cannot be considered a security. In a recent filing over the weekend, Ripple argued that there was no...Read More
While Ripple execs claim that the company has been unfairly treated by the SEC, Ethereum frontman Vitalik Buterin hasn’t been exactly silent either. In a fresh jibe, the latter accused the former of throwing Ethereum under the bus as “China-controlled.” The latest feud also started with a discussion of new regulatory changes in Canada with...Read More
The blockchain company – Ripple – announced that it had a successful second quarter of 2022 since it inked numerous strategic partnerships and expanded the use of its On-Demand Liquidity (ODL). Moreover, the firm sold $408.9 million worth of XRP compared to the $273.27 million in Q1. Ripple’s Progress in Q2 The entity’s quarterly XRP...Read More
Jed McCaleb, the co-founder of Ripple, completed his last transfer of 1.1 million XRP (worth over $394k) on July 17. The former exec has been dumping his XRP holdings for almost eight years. The execution of his last transfer marked the end of a billion-dollar dumping spree that began in 2014 after he left Ripple...Read More
San Francisco-based enterprise blockchain provider Ripple has launched a central bank digital currency hackathon with a total prize pool of $197,000 to promote the development of solutions for retail CBDCs, financial inclusion, and interoperability. Ripple Launches CBDC Contest The event, dubbed CBDC Innovate, will allow developers to build applications that run on Ripple’s decentralized, open-source...Read More
The lawsuit filed by the SEC in December 2020, alleging that Ripple Labs Inc, Brad Garlinghouse, and Chris Larsen illegally used XRP as unregistered security to raise $1.3 billion, continues to be delayed to such an extent that The CEO of Ripple is threatening with the possibility of leaving the country in the event that...Read More
Transparency is a “critical” value in the crypto industry, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has pointed out. Speaking to Fox Business news, the executive said operations clarity has become even more important with the recent “meltdown” of the UST stablecoin. On May 9, UST de-pegged from the dollar, bringing down the whole Terra (LUNA) ecosystem with...Read More
Blockchain company Ripple has allocated $100 million to accelerate carbon removal activity and aid in modernizing such markets with the help of investments in innovative carbon removal firms and sustainable financial tech platforms. According to the official press release, Ripple also plans to create a “portfolio of additive, long-term, nature and science-based carbon credits, back...Read More
Visa – the leading payment processing company – has completed the acquisition of CurrencyCloud for a whopping 700 million British pounds, worth around $925 million. In a press release from December 20th, the payment processing mogul Visa announced that it had completed the acquisition of CurrencyCloud. The latter is a platform that allows banks and...Read More
San Francisco-based blockchain company Ripple recently announced that it will launch a product that will allow financial services companies to offer their clients access to crypto trading. Ripple Liquidity Hub In an official blog post, the company noted that the new product, dubbed the “Ripple Liquidity Hub,” will grant enterprise clients access to digital assets...Read More
Accesswire published a press release today claiming that Ripple had finished its battle with the SEC. Stuart Alderoty– General Counsel for Ripple– promptly responded by calling the story false. Accesswire has since removed the story from their site. What Did The Press Release Say? Though the original link has been taken down, Accesswire’s article was...Read More
Ripple has announced the establishment of a new fund worth $250 million to support the building of non-fungible token projects on its XRP ledger. The company promised to provide artists with the necessary support. Ripple took it to Twitter earlier on September 29th to outlined its newest endeavor, which this time will focus on the...Read More
Rosie Rios – 43rd Treasurer of the United States – recently voiced her support for XRP. Meanwhile, she implies that Bitcoin and Ethereum are merely speculative assets by comparison. Rios Backs Ripple The former treasurer tweeted her thoughts yesterday, stating that XRP has a role in facilitating cross-border payments, while the current top cryptocurrencies lack...Read More
Ripple may not be the most beloved company in the crypto-verse, but its perseverance and desire to grow despite setbacks is something to be recognized. RippleX, Ripple’s branch focused on boosting the development of technologies around the XRP Ledger, has recently announced its first wave of XRPL grants and it is embracing the NFT mania. ...Read More
The legal case between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the blockchain company Ripple Labs continues to intensify and this time, the regulator has been granted access to the payment processor’s employee Stack communications. A Win for the SEC As reported by Law360, the SEC earned the discovery win after US Magistrate...Read More
Amidst an ongoing legal tussle with the securities and exchange commission, Ripple defendants have fired back with a motion to expose the XRP holdings of SEC employees, a token they have alleged is an unregistered security. RIpple’s Recent Motion On August 27th, attorney James Filan unveiled Ripple’s new motion demanding the SEC to produce documents...Read More
Just a few days after filing a motion to receive access to “obtain international discovery” of records belonging to Binance, US Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn has approved Ripple’s request. The documents should shed some light on the company’s XRP sales made on the exchange. Through its legal team, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, filed...Read More
Bitcoin has initiated another leg up, resulting in charting a new two-month high of just over $42,000. Apart from Chainlink, most alternative coins trail behind, and BTC’s market dominance has increased to well above 48%. Bitcoin Taps a 2-Month High As reported earlier this week, bitcoin went on a tear after dabbling with the $33,000...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw an impressive 20% price hike this week as it reached the $40K resistance level. The cryptocurrency penetrated above a descending wedge formation last Thursday and continued above the 20-day MA level last Friday. Since breaking the wedge, BTC surged higher inside an ascending price channel as it broke the 50-day MA level...Read More
