The US Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act on Tuesday, falling short of the 60 votes needed to send the bill toward a final vote. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the setback stings, but it won’t change what his company is doing. Garlinghouse Calls the Vote a Missed Opportunity Writing on […]
Swiss-based asset manager 21Shares has outlined its investment case for XRP, citing regulatory clarity, institutional access, growing XRPL utility, and a predictable supply. Nevertheless, it outlined one major risk, which continues to haunt the underlying asset. Why Bullish on XRP? Given Ripple’s years-long battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the favorable outcome […]
All crypto eyes have turned to the two major events next week (and the CPI inflation data on Friday), with some favoring the FOMC meeting, while others put more emphasis on the CLARITY Act vote on September 15. The XRP community appears to be in the second camp, as the countdown to the vote has […]
A Bank for International Settlements (BIS) working paper tests the XRP Ledger (XRPL) as a proof-of-concept for verifying official statistics on-chain, recording cryptographic fingerprints of public datasets that publish in three to five seconds and verify in one to two. The Working Paper No 1374 essentially asks how statistical agencies can give users an independent […]
Asset manager Bitwise said that its XRP ETF (XRP) has crossed $500 million in assets under management (AUM) just nine months after launch. The fund’s page showed $502.7 million in net assets across 364.75 million XRP last Friday and $507.23 million after Monday’s close. “14 years in, and the $XRP community continues to be unstoppable,” […]
A recent update from the XRP Ledger Foundation welcomed the TradFi giant, which has a long history with Ripple, to a hackathon taking place just ahead of the major conference, Ripple Swell. Meanwhile, 21Shares’s XRP ETF has changed how it prices the underlying token amid renewed inflows into all such funds. Mastercard Joins The XRP […]
Ripple has partnered with Jeonbuk Bank in South Korea as the latter prepares to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border remittances. The deal makes Jeonbuk Bank the first regional bank in the country to deploy the payment service. The main objective is to support businesses that have traditionally faced several days of delays when moving money […]
Layer-1 chain Flare has announced that FXRP now works as collateral on Derive, letting XRP holders trade on-chain options and perpetual futures from their own wallets. According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, holders can mint FXRP through Flare’s FAssets system, deposit it on Derive, and run positions from a single Portfolio Margin V2 […]
XRPL has released version 3.3.0, which takes another step toward becoming infrastructure for institutional tokenization. It introduces several proposed amendments focused on privacy, payments, and managing real-world assets (RWAs). Confidential Transfers Perhaps the most significant new feature is called Confidential Transfer. It’s designed to allow institutions to hide balances and transaction amounts for Multi-Purpose Tokens […]
Ripple and the wider XRP ecosystem saw several noteworthy developments over the past few days. These included, but are not limited to, a new institutional platform for the RLUSD stablecoin, an investment in payments infrastructure, fresh Binance incentives, rising AI-agent activity, as well as continued demand for spot XRP ETFs. The following breaks down the […]