Tag Archives: XRP (XRP)

New data demonstrates that Mexican XRP/peso trading volume on Mexico’s Bitso-based digital money exchange hit a record high this month.This expansion is because of the association between Ripple and MoneyGram, which shows that it is as of now moving around 10% of its Mexican peso currency exchange volume through Ripple’s XRP-based installment arrangement, known as ODL.Ripple’s dedication of $ 50 million in value financing for MoneyGram was at long last finished and a second $20 million...

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Be thankful for your life, your family and, hopefully, your wallets. Hope you had a nice dinner and it prepared you for the Christmas holidays.  However, today is Black Friday and even though it should remind us on the awful things done to the slaves in the U.S. back in time, it should remind us that, except this should never happen again, we could use this date to do something good – for someone, or for us (‘cause you have to love yourself,...

Banking app Revolut has introduced a new feature that will allow many users to use the app just like any other bank account. The introduction of the direct debit feature for the UK pound has enabled users to be able to pay for goods and services with direct debit as it is becoming the norm for many businesses at the moment. Already Euro direct debit services were started last year. Many businesses prefer direct debits as card transaction fees and chargebacks are usually more problems than...

The recent Upbit hack crashed all the cryptos down and again reminded crypto investors how vulnerable this sector is. However, this was the last among seven majors hacks that happened this year. So, let’s mention some of them:CryptopiaAround January 15, New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia said there was $3.2 million in tokens stolen and the company went into the liquidation. However, on Jan. 20, it was reported that as much as $16 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) and ERC20...

On Wednesday most cryptocurrencies were trading in red again including Bitcoin (BTC) that, in the last 24 hours couldn’t turn its trace. Bitcoin closed on Tuesday the day at the $7,198 price mark, at which point the world’s largest crypto coin found an intra-day high on Wednesday of $7,227, before moving down again towards its current trading price near $6,945 still falling by 3.51 at 11:53 am CET. Among the possible influencing factors we should mention the recent Upbit hacker attack.BTC is...

Ripple Labs’ XRP token seems to have again come under scrutiny as popular crypto influencer and crypto investor BitLord went after the cryptocurrency token in a tweet describing it as a security. That’s an allegation which Ripple Labs has gone to great lengths to deny and also to put at bay due to the serious nature of the repercussions of such. This comes after sources indicated that Ripple completed its investment commitment in Moneygram as it now holds about 10% of the common stock of the...

Last year, the U.K. payment remittance platform TransferGo, announced that it had entered a partnership with Ripple and joined RippleNet, with a focus of helping Indian migrants in the U.K. make cross-border payments back to their families. However, the company has now announced that it will take the relationship a notch higher, and move its business to Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) which uses XRP.Speaking about the move, CEO Daumantas Dvilinskas has suggested that ODL will shoot the...

As part of a major Strategic Partnership Agreement online travel giant Booking.com has joined hands with crypto-friendly travel platform Travala.com. The official announcement came from Travala on Monday, November 25.Over the last two years, Travala has expanded its services by allowing its users to pay for their hotel bookings in cryptocurrency. Besides, the announcement says that Travala has already integrated Booking.com’s accommodation to its platform. With this major collaboration,...

Financial services company MoneyGram International Inc. announced on Monday that a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments Ripple Labs, completed its final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity consistent to its primarily $50 million equity investment commitment that the company made earlier this year.The price of share Ripple paid was $4.10 that seems to be pretty much higher than MoneyGram’s current price on the market. As per the announcement, the...

Transaction volume is an important metric often considered to determine the growth and popularity of a blockchain ecosystem. This is a go-to metric that often determines user activity and interest for a particular blockchain system. Well, XRP is the show stealer at this moment as it has surpassed both Bitcoin and Ethereum in daily transaction volumes.Last Saturday, November 23, the XRP ledger daily transaction volume hit a massive figure of 4 million. This is the highest recorded volume for...