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According to Ripple CTO, the new exciting features are coming from the Ripple developers. They will allow third-party tokens to work on top of the system. Also, XRP Ledger will soon have the ability to eliminate accounts of possible network spammers.Ripple’s XRP price falls together with other markets. But David Schwartz doesn’t care as the Ripple Ledger, XRP and the longtime holders will soon receive a significant boost. A company presents a new type of transactions for externally created...

Previously named Voltron Blockchain, now known as Contour, the firm gains the undisclosed sum from one of the biggest bidders of the world. R3‘s Asia Chief Carl Wegner became the startup’s CEO and will lead the company to the successful launch of its innovative letter-of-credit (LoC) service.The company reduced the time needed for the LoCs from 2 weeks to 24 hours max, in several test projects. Lisa Robins is serving as Head of Transaction Banking at SC. She says that thanks to the Corda...

Ripple‘s partner MoneyGram, a leading payment provider, has continued to position itself among the leaders in cross-border crypto payments. After its major deal with Ripple for On-Demand Liquidity in 2019 worth $50 million, the company has now announced a new collaboration with Lulu Exchange.The exchange ranks among the most prominent crypto and non-banking finance providers in the United Arab Emirates region. Lulu has its headquarters in Abu Dhabi and operates more than 180 active...

Tomorrow, the business leaders and politicians from the globe are meeting at another session of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland.This is the 50th anniversary of the event with a theme: “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.” The annual economic gathering will run from January 21 until January 24.United Kindom Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Downing Street said on Monday. Johnson asserted that his...

The Scandinavians are increasing the level of refusal to use cash in their daily transactions. Partnership of the Riksbank with Accenture will allow developing new crypto payment solutions. Such as smartphone app, POS terminals, and other devices and code.Considering the words by Christine Lagarde who shows interest in stablecoins, Sweden is “staying ahead of the curve”. European Central Bank is showing interest in stablecoins development. China will likely to restrict usage of anything...

European Central Bank’s head (and former International Monetary Fund’s head) Christine Lagarde said that the stablecoins market is gaining momentum and the officials need to keep up with changes:“My personal conviction is that giving the developments we are seeing, not so much in the bitcoin segment, but in the stablecoins projects. And we only know of one at the moment but there are others, being explored and underway at the moment. We’d better be ahead of the curve if that happens. Because...

Photo: Wikimedia CommonsI have big hopes for Christine Lagarde following her appointment as the new head of the European Central Bank. And here’s why (Warning: libertarian crypto enthusiasts should look away now).A company I co-founded held Bitcoin in the now-infamous Mt. Gox exchange. You may remember that back in 2013-14 it was the world’s leading Bitcoin exchange handling over 70% of all transactions worldwide. But in February 2014 things went horribly wrong as Mt. Gox suspended trading...

Even as the U.S. Congress bites down hard on Facebook and the social media giant’s grand plans of issuing its own digital currency, a recent event has corroborated the general idea that the problem with the Libra might not be the fact that it’s a digital currency itself, but that it’s being issued by Facebook. This is because, two Rep members have revealed concerns about the inevitability of digital currencies in the near future, suggesting that the United States should start getting used to...

Incoming European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde advocates for an open approach to cryptocurrency regulation. | Image: ShutterstockChristine Lagarde, the chairman of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and presidential nominee for the European Central Bank (ECB), has urged regulators to remain “open” to the opportunities presented by distributed ledger technology when developing crypto regulations.During a statement delivered to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the...