Category: XRP

RippleX, Ripple’s investment and development arm, is exploring new ways for developers to build non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The payments firm teamed up with software competition platform Devpost to host a hackathon involving 400 participants and $50,000 in prizes, according to a new blog post from Abner Pinto, the RippleX tech

A closely tracked crypto strategist says he believes Bitcoin (BTC), XRP and one more altcoin will likely sustain their bullish momentum despite some market turbulence over the weekend. Pseudonymous trader Credible tells his 320,200 Twitter followers that he sees Bitcoin pulling back to the $42,000 level before resuming its uptrend. “With this last weekly close,

Attorney and crypto legal expert Jeremy Hogan thinks there could soon be a settlement in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple. The SEC sued Ripple in December 2020, alleging that the company sold XRP as an unregistered security, a position the regulator maintains to this day. The regulator also filed individual

A leading digital assets manager says crypto investment products suffered nearly $50,000,000 in outflows last week despite inflows to altcoins. In the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report, CoinShares says most of last week’s outflows originated in North America. “Digital asset investment products saw outflows for the second consecutive week, totaling US$47m last week. The

The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), a sub-organization of the Arab League, has named global payments network RippleNet as a possible alternative to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In a new report, the AMF’s Arab Regional Fintech Working Group says there is considerable risk for a nation to issue a CBDC, including the possibility that local

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is celebrating a recent court decision to deny the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a motion seeking to strike the payment company’s fair notice defense. In the ongoing lawsuit, the SEC alleged that the payments company unlawfully sold XRP as an unregistered security, a position the regulator maintains to this

Some of the biggest players in the crypto realm are initiating a major migration among two of the top digital assets. The blockchain-tracking service Whale Alert tells its 2.1 million Twitter followers that one crypto whale sent 100 million tokens of XRP from the Crypto.com exchange to an unknown wallet. The full value at time

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to fight an order in its lawsuit against Ripple that requires the SEC to divulge internal email conversations from 2018. The SEC sued Ripple in December 2020, alleging that the company sold XRP as an unregistered security, a position the regulator maintains to this day. The

Crypto assets are growing at a far faster pace than the internet, according to macroeconomic expert Raoul Pal. The founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor says he’s spent extensive time and resources updating his numbers on global crypto adoption – and the data is clear. “2021 was an accelerating growth year and the

A popular cryptocurrency analyst and investor is tracking the trajectory of XRP after a key ruling in the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple. On Friday, Judge Analisa Torres denied the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s attempt to prevent Ripple from using a “Fair Notice Defense.” One of Ripple’s core arguments is that the SEC did not