Ripple has announced a partnership with money transfer company Moneygram. Ripple will use XRP for cross-border payments, adding speed and efficiency to Moneygram’s business. Ripple Labs announced that its the exclusive digital…
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Ripple announced $100 million for game developers
Ripple’s developer initiative XSpring and blockchain platform Forte have announced a 100 million dollar fund to support game developers. It’s the first major move of Ripple into the gaming space. The fund…
‘Bitcoin potentially disruptive to Paypal and Visa’
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have to potential to replace services like Paypal and Visa, even though this isn’t likely to happen any time soon. That’s the assessment of Lisa Ellis, an analyst…
Western Union eyeing crypto and blockchain
Financial service Western Union has been evaluating the use of cryptocurrencies in their portfolio. The company is also exploring how to use blockchain technology to improve their service. These two points were…
Crypto market hits yearly low
The cryptocurrency market reached its lowest value of the year. The entire market was worth $106.4 billion, losing another 10 billion in roughly five hours. Bitcoin is now worth $3435, Ethereum dropped…
SWIFT denies partnership with Ripple
Financial institute SWIFT has no plans for a partnership with fintech company Ripple. They said this after questions from Finance Magnates. Rumours about SWIFT integrating the Ripple technology in its network, were…
Ripple sales doubled in Q3 2018
Crypto startup Ripple has seen revenue from sale of its digital asset XRP more than double during July, August and September. It sold $163.33 million in XRP, compared with $75.53 million three…
Bitcoin makes major drop
Just in 30 minutes the price of bitcoin went down 4.77 percent. Where bitcoin was steady trading around the $6500 level, it dropped $400 in value. Now it slightly recovered to a…
Ripple payment app MoneyTap live in Japan
A group of 61 Japanese banks has started using a payment app build on the Ripple blockchain. MoneyTap is a product from the SBI Ripple Asia consortium and uses xCurrent to quickly…
Launch xRapid no good for XRP price
Yesterday Ripple launched their first major commercial product xRapid. Despite this huge milestone, the value of the XRP token went down by 3% at the maximum and currently moved back to a…