Revolut, a United Kingdom based global banking alternative has revealed it will be adding Ripple (XRP) any moment. This is coming after it added Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin to […] Click here to view full article
Ripple has announced that in the framework of Blockchain Week NYC in May they are going to hold their XRP Community Night featuring a live music performance by Snoop […] Click here to view full article
Today’s collection of Bitcoin in Brief stories from across the cryptosphere showcases how bitcoin is an unstoppable force. Even if one centralized avenue can be pressured by some governments, […] Click here to view full article
European leaders seem to have finally come to a consensus that the innovative technology underlying crypto-assets “has the potential to improve efficiency and inclusiveness of the financial system and […] Click here to view full article
Casinos and cryptocurrency exhibit several similarities. Both are financial heavy industries, and both are viewed with a certain amount of skepticism. Casinos are seen as overwhelmingly benefiting the operator […] Click here to view full article
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SWIFT has today announced that HSBC has joined SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi), joining 50 banks that are already live from 150 that are committed to the gpi project. Hailed […] Click here to view full article
Following months of intense speculation and doubt, Santander has finally come forth and released its official Ripple -based warm-wallet, Exarpy, for public consumption. In a tweet posted via Exarpy’s official […] Click here to view full article
Ripple (XRP)’s grand project continues to take shape every other day. From the desire to see faster, cheaper, and secure cross-border payments and remittances, the platform now has eyes […] Click here to view full article
The price of bitcoin has shot up by roughly $300 in the last 24 hours, spiking from its previous $8,200 position. The news marks a massive turn away from […] Click here to view full article
2017 was the year Stellar (XLM) announced itself to the cryptocurrency world with a tremendous market performance. That hasn’t stopped in 2018, even as the dip that hit all […] Click here to view full article
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Bitcoin captured global curiosity when its’ value skyrocketed in 2017. Yet, financial institutions have been slow to add operational value to the crypto market. The common denominator among places where […] Click here to view full article
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Ever since the governments intruded into cryptocurrencies, they have railed against the interference and regulations. If this is the trend that majority coins are following, here is a coin […] Click here to view full article
Advertisement Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. A senior Ripple official has called on British regulators to revisit their ‘wait and […] Click here to view full article
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Spanish banking giant Santander is offering its retail bank customers the ability to make same day international transfers via blockchain-based technology. The Santander One Pay FX service, now available in […] Click here to view full article
TRON TRX Ripple XRP In Terms of Market Capitalization TRON (TRX)– While most coins on the market are enjoying the recent upswing in prices, TRON is also coming […] Click here to view full article
Ripple’s XRP token has gone from the worst performing top-5 cryptocurrency to the best performer in just one week. As of writing, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market value is […] Click here to view full article
Ripple can be expected to “convert the remaining crypto cynics,” affirms the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations. The prediction from Nigel Green, the founder […] Click here to view full article
This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments. New developments: Islamic scholar claims Bitcoin is Sharia law compliant Mufti Muhammad Abu Bakar, a Sharia advisor and compliance officer […] Click here to view full article
Cryptocurrency trading can be a hassle to many, especially traders who have invested their entire fortune in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum and the others. While it’s true that […] Click here to view full article
Ripple XRP is maybe one of the most trending currencies these days as XRP pops up every now and then, which in reality is not a bad thing at […] Click here to view full article
Santander Launches International Payment Service Built On Ripple’s xCurrent Banco Santander is launching a new international payments service, dubbed “OnePay FX,” based on blockchain technology. The service is available […] Click here to view full article
European financial giant The Santander Group is reported to be launching a cross-border foreign exchange application on Friday based on blockchain technology developed by Ripple. Ripple Partners with Santander […] Click here to view full article
Advertisement Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The Ripple price rallied by 20 percent on Friday following the announcement that Santander […] Click here to view full article
The service will be powered by the Ripple’s xCurrent distributed ledger technology which facilitates same day global payments. Spanish banking giant Banco Santander has recently announced the launch of […] Click here to view full article
Advertisement Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Spanish banking giant Banco Santander has announced the launch of its international payments app […] Click here to view full article
Global banking giant Santander Group is reportedly launching a blockchain-based application for cross-border foreign exchange on Friday. According to a report by the Financial Times on Thursday, the app, dubbed […] Click here to view full article
Ripple has flooded the news over the past few months. The team have a lot to offer and XRP seems to be driving the entire system forward into a […] Click here to view full article
Ripple , a San Francisco-based payment network utilizing Blockchain technology, invested $25 mln of its own cryptocurrency, XRP , into Blockchain Capital Parallel IV LP venture fund, according to […] Click here to view full article
Stellar XLM – The cryptocurrency market is booming with innovations and developments all around. The ordinary investor has, however, been overshadowed by the volatility of the market especially after […] Click here to view full article
Ripple Partnership Ripple (XRP) – According to a recent global coin report, Ripple (XRP) is the world’s third-biggest cryptocurrency. In January 2018, it enjoyed an impressive sail at $3 […] Click here to view full article
Ripple [XRP] is the third cryptocurrency in the market in terms of capitalization. Its value, like the rest of the market, has had a rough 2018, since attaining its […] Click here to view full article
Ripple (XRP) as the third top cryptocurrency in accordance with the global coin report list, has had its five minutes back in January of 2018 when this currency went […] Click here to view full article
Lightning Labs continues its way of changing the crypto ecosystem, offering more advanced, faster and cheaper transactions than blockchain does. Two years ago, in a professional financial sphere it […] Click here to view full article
The Singapore government is looking to boost blockchain development in an effort to improve financial inclusion for Southeast Asian countries. In opening remarks for a meeting with finance ministers from […] Click here to view full article
Cryptocurrencies simply couldn’t be stopped in 2017. Having begun the year with a market cap of $17.7 billion, virtual currencies ended the year having gained almost $600 billion in […] Click here to view full article
What is a "cryptocurrency?" Try as Webster dictionary may , a formal definition remains hard to pin down. While it’s unclear exactly when the word itself was coined, bitcoin , […] Click here to view full article
The cryptocurrency market is not only Bitcoins. For long, many altcoins have comprised its worthy competition, albeit, they got less attention. On the one hand, the selectivity of crypto […] Click here to view full article
Last year, seemingly anyone with the wherewithal and patience to invest in cryptocurrencies walked away having made money. Between the beginning and end of 2017, the combined market cap […] Click here to view full article
For only the second time in its history, an attempt at tokenizing Ripple’s XRP ledger through an initial coin offering (ICO) is being seriously offered by a group not […] Click here to view full article
Bitcoin is down another $100. After yesterday’s “high” of roughly $6,700, the currency has dropped down to $6,600. This appears to be an ongoing theme with bitcoin as of […] Click here to view full article
Shinhan, South Korea’s largest commercial banks, has agreed on a business improvement partnership with OmiseGo, an Ethereum-dependent financial platform. The firm also announced in January that it is developing […] Click here to view full article
Bitcoin has been around since 2009. Since then a number of other cryptocurrencies such as Ripple, Ethereum, Golem and Litecoin have entered the picture. When it comes to facilitating […] Click here to view full article
Cryptocurrency CFDs are now a must-have feature for all online retail brokers in order to retain clients judging by the scope of the industry that is adding the instrument. […] Click here to view full article
Advertisement Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. South Korea’s largest commercial banks including Shinhan and Woori have continued to support cryptocurrency […] Click here to view full article
A primary attraction of decentralized cryptocurrencies is that they’re censorship-resistant. The more centralized a coin is, the easier it is for its supply to be controlled. But there’s another […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Pixabay Ripple is said to have made lucrative offers to the crypto exchanges which could have possibly ensured huge liquidity for the XRP tokens. The San Fransico-based blockchain […] Click here to view full article
News of Walmart’s new service hasn’t settled in yet, but Ripple (XRP) is already being connected to it. The business behemoth recently launched a money transfer service akin to […] Click here to view full article
Share on Facebook Best known for its use within the banking and finance sector, Ripple has recently partnered with a Slovenian company (BPG Group) to facilitate the exchange of […] Click here to view full article
Tencent Holding Limited is one of Asia’s largest and most high-worth companies which have been on a trajectory of constant growth and evolution. Tencent Holding was founded in 1998 […] Click here to view full article
News of Walmart’s new service hasn’t settled in yet, but Ripple (XRP) is already being connected to it. The business behemoth recently launched a money transfer service akin to […] Click here to view full article
XRP is marketed as a valuable link between the world of traditional banking and digital currencies, supposedly designed to revolutionize how banks move cash across borders, making transactions faster […] Click here to view full article
Startup asked Gemini, Coinbase if money would persuade them XRP has surged on speculation it may list on big U.S. exchange Ripple has a problem.The startup controls […] Click here to view full article
Ripple was the best-performing cryptocurrency in 2017 , having seen an extraordinary rise of over 30,000% in the price of its native digital asset, XRP. The year also saw […] Click here to view full article
SWIFT gpi has taken the correspondent banking world by storm with about 11,000 banks in the SWIFT network. However, Ripple is said to offer superior technology and data to […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Finance Magnates Share this article Africa is often a forgotten continent in the tech world. However, blockchain is set to boom in a big way across the landscape; […] Click here to view full article
Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA), and NEM (XEM): one of these coins has dropped the most since 2018 started. Which coin do you think it is? The crypto market has been […] Click here to view full article
iStock.com/Pe3check Ripple News Update In the last 24 hours, Ripple prices gained four percent while the cryptocurrency market cap added $15.2 billion, demonstrating that investors are feeling particularly […] Click here to view full article
This article in AMBCrypto that discusses Ripple adoption by the Central Bank of Netherlands (CBN) and Rabobank was likely translated into English and is devilishly hard to follow. It […] Click here to view full article
This article in AMBCrypto that discusses Ripple adoption by the Central Bank of Netherlands (CBN) and Rabobank was likely translated into English and is devilishly hard to follow. It […] Click here to view full article
Ripple(XRP) – Another feather to the cap of Ripple has surfaced with Allvor branding itself as the first cryptocurrency powered by XRP Ledger with a distinct functionality and a […] Click here to view full article
Ripple, in conjunction with DonorsChoose.org, announced that they would be fulfilling all current requests on the school funding charity site. This means that thousands of school projects and classroom […] Click here to view full article
With a view to satisfy a huge demand for XRP, Uphold has added support for this cryptocurrency and has become one of the largest platforms to buy it. Cloud-based […] Click here to view full article
The latest correction in Bitcoin has brought it close to the dangerous levels of a “death cross” but analysts still prefer to remain bullish as many say the pain […] Click here to view full article
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Coinspeaker and ICOBox are offering weekly analysis of cryptocurrency and digital assets markets over March 19-25, 2018, conducted by Professor Dima Kornilov and Dima Zaitsev. Information as of March […] Click here to view full article
Advertisement Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple and the creator of the Mt. Gox exchange before […] Click here to view full article
LONDON (Reuters) – Twitter Inc ( TWTR.N ) will start banning cryptocurrency advertising from Tuesday, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown that seeks to avoid giving publicity to […] Click here to view full article
No one has a crystal ball when it comes to crypto markets. In 2018, it seems as if cryptocurrencies face new challenges almost every day. With SEC regulators breathing […] Click here to view full article
Malaysia’s central bank hinted it is planning to integrate Blockchain in its banking sector, its deputy governor revealing ongoing development work in a speech Thursday, March 22. Speaking at the […] Click here to view full article
XDCE token goes live on Exchanges like Bancor, KoinOK, Alphaex, Forkdelta & Etherflyer Opens 20% above the Token Contribution Price Singapore, March 22, 2018 —Singapore based Blockchain Technology […] Click here to view full article
Photo: A boy walks past a billboard of the Renminbi (yuan) symbol in Haikou, south China’s Hainan province (REUTERS) Chinese regulators, banks and payment providers are reportedly set to […] Click here to view full article
Photo: eToro Share this article eToro, the global social trading and investment platform, announced on Wednesday that it succeeded in raising $100 million in a recent venture round. Learn […] Click here to view full article
Advertisement Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), the country’s financial regulator, has revealed details of a […] Click here to view full article
Cryptocurrency has entered the mainstream — and now the high volume of activity, including the many failures, has attracted the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Up until very […] Click here to view full article
Photo: eToro Share this article eToro, the global social trading and investment platform, announced today that it managed to raised $100 million in a venture round. Learn how to […] Click here to view full article
Singapore—March 17, 2018 —Singapore based Blockchain Technology XinFin recently announced its association with KoinOK. KoinOK is proudly building the most customer-focused cryptocurrency platform in India and XinFin aims to […] Click here to view full article
Bank of America, Santander Bank, and Even the Central Bank of Saudi Arabia have all partnered with Ripple (XRP) . However, despite the fact that Ripple has made incredible […] Click here to view full article
Photo: FM Share this article Japan will request a debate about global cryptocurrencies regulation during the next summit of the G20 amid mounting alarm that the popular assets is […] Click here to view full article
Coinspeaker partnered with ICOBox to provide our readers with this weekly analysis conducted by Professor Dima Kornilov and Dima Zaitsev devoted to cryptocurrency and digital assets markets changes that […] Click here to view full article
Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is adding two new currencies to its Ripple-based blockchain remittance platform. According to a report from the Bangkok Post on Tuesday, SCB, one of the […] Click here to view full article
Up, then down again. In times of volatility, it can seem like there really isn’t anything supporting public cryptocurrency networks. But that isn’t exactly the case. While they come in […] Click here to view full article
Roger Ver and Mate Tokay has just joined XinFin as advisors and we can’t be more excited. Singpapore based Technology Company; XinFin today announced the joining of Bitcoin.com […] Click here to view full article
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Ripple has made a lot of positive waves in the financial sector as of late. The company has embarked on an interesting mission to streamline cross-border payments and revamp […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Finance Magnates Share this article Ripple, a payments firm set to revolutionize the banking sector using blockchain technology, has partnered with 61 Japanese banks to launch a mobile […] Click here to view full article
Japan’s SBI Holdings Claims 40% Stake in Hardware Wallet Company This week the Japanese financial services management group SBI Holdings has announced that it has acquired 40 percent of […] Click here to view full article
Coinbase shut down rumors this week that it is adding the cryptocurrency XRP, or Ripple, to its platform anytime soon. While the move set XRP’s price sinking, it […] Click here to view full article
Looking to the huge demand in the crypto space, several banks are now starting to offer investment and cold storage services for digital currencies. For the majority of the […] Click here to view full article
Ripple and the custom cryptocurrency it created, XRP, are having a moment. Winning the attention of new investors (so much so that XRP shot up over 1,000 percent earlier this […] Click here to view full article
Liechtenstein Bank Offers Account Holders Direct Crypto-Investments This week the private bank headquartered in the Principality of Liechtenstein, Bank Frick, announced its customers will now have the ability to […] Click here to view full article
Word of mouth sent cryptocurrency investment to an all-time high at the end of last year, and Coinbase capitalized on it big time. As one of the easier sites […] Click here to view full article
The traditional cross-border payment systems may start to be driven out by the distributed ledger technologies as Woori bank considers commercializing of Ripple-based overseas remittances this year. Distributed ledger […] Click here to view full article
Just recently the audience intelligence company, Pulsar, published a report examining the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies. Rather than measure interest using prices, trade volume, and market capitalization the comprehensive […] Click here to view full article
A Liechtenstein-based family bank has become one of the first banks in the world that allows clients to directly invest in cryptocurrencies. Making the announcement earlier this week, Bank Frick […] Click here to view full article
On February 28, 2018, Liechtenstein-based Bank Frick revealed it will offer both investment opportunities and cold storage services for customers who dabble in cryptocurrencies. A statement issued by the bank […] Click here to view full article
Photo: iStock Share this article Considering the efficiency of decentralized ledger technology, Taiwan’s central bank has announced that it will explore the option of implementing blockchain technology in order […] Click here to view full article
Woori Bank of South Korea has successfully tested overseas remittance via Ripple, according to a report in the business section of Chosun News. Learn how to buy Bitcoin and […] Click here to view full article
Photo: iStock Share this article Considering the efficiency of decentralized ledger technology, Taiwan’s central bank has announced that it will explore the option of implementing blockchain technology in order […] Click here to view full article
Despite JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon having called Bitcoin a “ fraud ,” the big bank is now taking cryptocurrency very seriously—acknowledging the blockchain-based technology as a veritable threat […] Click here to view full article
French banking giant BNP Paribas has recently announced a new fund that aims at supporting and investing in startups which are developing new platforms for financial services. As per […] Click here to view full article
Distributed ledger startup Ripple has today announced new partnerships with five banking and money transfer institutions across four different countries. Going forward, the two banks – Itaú Unibanco from Brazil […] Click here to view full article
‘Decentralization can also solve the current structure of the attention economy and fix the exploitative business models currently promulgated by social media companies.’ Perhaps you’ve heard the term "attention […] Click here to view full article
Banking and blockchain seem to be a match made in heaven as no other ledger technology can come par with blockchain and its incorruptible capability. Ever since Bitcoin was […] Click here to view full article
Chinese multinational PC company Lenovo has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a system to “ verify integrity of physical documents ,” using […] Click here to view full article
Sure, the wild swings in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dominate the daily news. But beneath the headlines, the nine blockchain startups on the Forbes Fintech 50 […] Click here to view full article
The blockchain startup Ripple has been seen expanding its footprint in the Asian market in the last two months. In mid-December 2017, banks from Japan and South Korea were […] Click here to view full article
Love is in the air. On Valentine’s Day 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed some affection for blockchain and virtual currency. On February 14, 2018, at a meeting of […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Eric Driggers / Flickr Blockchain startup Ripple has been quite in news recently and is expanding its wings in the global financial transactions systems. In a fresh new […] Click here to view full article
Bank of Thailand Bans Banks From Five Cryptocurrency Activities The Thai central bank has prohibited financial institutions in the country from five key cryptocurrency activities, including banning customers from […] Click here to view full article
The Bitcoin bubble seems to be bursting. The bottom has fallen out , just as it did in the DotCom bubble in 2000. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored […] Click here to view full article
Together, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), European Banking Authority (EBA), and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) comprise the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs), one arm of […] Click here to view full article
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This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments New developments: Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase reveals 4 banks are blocking credit card purchases According to popular cryptocurrency exchange and wallet […] Click here to view full article
Bitcoin has not had a good past few months. I am not going to take all the credit, but I did write my post "Why I Would Bet Against […] Click here to view full article
The logo of blockchain company Ripple is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. The logo of blockchain company Ripple is […] Click here to view full article
Bitcoin billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the 4th richest in the world of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the 4th richest in the world of […] Click here to view full article
LianLian will be using Ripple’s xCurrent solution for cross-border settlements with end-to-end tracking. It seems that there is no stopping Ripple Technologies for now, as with each passing day, […] Click here to view full article
Regulators are here to stay. That was a common thread in the conversations Wednesday at Yahoo Finance’s cryptocurrency event in New York. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is a […] Click here to view full article
This story appears in the February 28, 2018 issue of Forbes. Subscribe In the world of cryptocurrency, where billion-dollar fortunes can be made overnight, speed is everything — and […] Click here to view full article
Bitcoin jumped nearly $2,000 from its intraday low Tuesday, making up some of the losses it sustained from 2018’s January correction. As of press time, bitcoin was trading around $7,595, […] Click here to view full article
The overall markets under deep correction as China brings ban on local investors to trade even from foreign exchanges. The cryptocurrency markets are currently in a deep downfall as […] Click here to view full article
The rout in cryptocurrencies rolled on, sending Bitcoin to its lowest level since October, as worries over tighter regulation by U.S. authorities and central bankers elsewhere gave traders fresh […] Click here to view full article
JOHANNESBURG — In what is looking reminiscent of the Tulip bubble , Bitcoin (and in fact all other cryptocurrencies) have today continued an aggressive downward slide. After peaking at […] Click here to view full article
Image: Laremenko/gettyimages It’s been an exciting weekend in the world of cryptocurrencies. On Friday, Bitcoin and all other major coins plummeted double digits according to CoinMarketCap , following an […] Click here to view full article
Santander will soon be launching a mobile app in Q1 2018 for instant payments powered with Ripple’s xCurrent technology. Although the crypto market is facing a huge meltdown, Ripple […] Click here to view full article
Bitcoin drops back below $8,000 per coin on Monday morning. After a rough week last week, the cryptocurrency market remains under pressure. Last week’s sell-off was driven […] Click here to view full article
Hardware wallets are an essential tool for any cryptocurrency investor managing a portfolio with a fat dollar sign in front of it. They can keep funds safe from malware, […] Click here to view full article
Bankera , one of the biggest FinTech ICOs with over $70 million raised, has become the first blockchain-based startup to acquire a private bank. The acquisition of Pacific Private […] Click here to view full article
In case Ripple manages to bounce upwards, the new move towards $1.27-$1.29 may begin. The MACD is showing the bearish sentiment is contracting, but the trend is still there. Still, […] Click here to view full article
LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, skidded 11 percent on Thursday to its lowest since November, as a Facebook ban on cryptocurrency adverts and a growing regulatory […] Click here to view full article
Illustrations by Radio Depending on who you ask, blockchains are either the most important technological innovation since the internet or a solution looking for a problem. The original blockchain is […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Arnab Shome Share this article Japanese financial service giant SBI Holdings has signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based PFM provider Moven to form a joint venture, in […] Click here to view full article
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Photo: Coinspeaker Both these companies are eager to use Ripple’s xRapid payments solution that is designed to provide on-demand liquidity. The last month of December 2017 played a very […] Click here to view full article
Ripple’s vision of a world in which money moves as fast and frictionlessly as email just got one step closer to being realized. Two new payments companies, IDT Corp. and […] Click here to view full article
Blockchain builds trust, security and efficiency. Second in a series about blockchain and B2B. The Bitcoin frenzy has made it very difficult to understand blockchain technology and advanced ledger […] Click here to view full article
What is Ripple? Technically speaking, is Ripple a cryptocurrency in the mold of Bitcoin? The short answer is probably “no,” but that doesn’t stop it from often being lumped […] Click here to view full article
In this Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, file photo, a man watches a screen showing the prices of bitcoin at a virtual currency exchange office in Seoul, South Korea. Bitcoin […] Click here to view full article
Unlike the stock market, which is seeing its eight-year bull run thanks, in part, to institutional investors, crypto-markets are dominated by individual investors. This is evident by almost every […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Finance Magnates Share this article Ken Shishido, a Bitcoin Cash evangelist and crypto entrepreneur with strong ties to Roger Ver , believes that this year will be all […] Click here to view full article
It’s probable that 2018 will be a watershed year for blockchain and cryptocurrencies. 2017 saw the breakout of this new technology from the small community of programmers and “geeks” […] Click here to view full article
Earlier this month, I wrote that crypto companies are going to become investors in 2018 . I didn’t quite imagine that happening as quickly as mid-January, but here we […] Click here to view full article
JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon retreated last week from his contention that bitcoin is a fraud . Still, he told the Fox Business network that “Bitcoin to […] Click here to view full article
Photo: FM Share this article SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with seven central securities depositories (CSDs) to form the […] Click here to view full article
The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of Cointelgraph.com 2017 was a breakthrough year for the crypto market for major coins […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Metropolitan Bank The atmosphere within crypto community is heating up following the cumbersome news regarding Metropolitan Bank neglects crypto payments. During the research conducted by Fortune, the magazine […] Click here to view full article
Veteran user experience designer James Zdralek is on a mission to reimagine the way central banks run, using cryptocurrencies. Part psychologist, part accountant, part industrial engineer, the senior executive in […] Click here to view full article
The Ripple bulls are back, and this time they brought along a friend. News that MoneyGram plans to pilot Ripple’s cryptocurrency, XRP, as a means of improving cross-border payments ended […] Click here to view full article
Goldman Sachs says bitcoin is more likely to be used as money in emerging market nations. The dollar (and euro) serve its purpose just fine in the U.S. and […] Click here to view full article
Market capitalization is a crucial indicator of asset performance, which is estimated by price per unit and circulation supply multiplication. The higher market cap reaches, the more enticing becomes […] Click here to view full article
The logo of blockchain company Ripple is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto. The logo of blockchain company Ripple is seen at the SIBOS banking […] Click here to view full article
XRP dropped below $1.75 today. Shutterstock Ripple’s XRP token extended its losses today, dropping to less than $1.75. The digital currency fell to as little as $1.72, according to CoinMarketCap […] Click here to view full article
Ethereum breaks above $1,300 to hit a fresh all-time high on Wednesday. The second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation is defying its major rivals, which have slumped during […] Click here to view full article
Receiving Wide Coverage … Crypto crackdown : South Korean banking regulators have begun on-site inspections of the country’s six largest banks to monitor their compliance with anti-money-laundering laws […] Click here to view full article
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bitcoin sank on Monday after website CoinMarketCap removed prices from South Korean exchanges from its calculations of digital currency rates without any warning, resulting in […] Click here to view full article
Four Cryptocurrencies That Meet the Definition of Vaporware ‘Vaporware’ is a term that’s tossed about loosely, often against cryptocurrency projects that have no clear use case. It’s an easy […] Click here to view full article
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Well, that just happened. What happened? Let’s see: crypto penny stocks mooning. Centralized banking coins mooning. Long forgotten alt bags and even abandoned projects languishing on Cryptopia mooning. Basically […] Click here to view full article
Ripple is the talk of the town these days. Although not everyone may see the added value of this project right away, it is evident that the markets have […] Click here to view full article
Layout of IBM’s five superconducting quantum bit device. Alex Beath, a Toronto-based physicist and pension fund analyst, is skeptical about Bitcoin but sees one useful purpose for the crypto-currency: […] Click here to view full article
Cryptocurrency has a new king. His name is Chris Larsen, and he’s the co-founder and former CEO of Ripple, which created the digital token known as XRP. He’s now […] Click here to view full article
Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP, is on a bull run. According to CoinDesk data , the price of XRP is up over 1,000 percent in just the last month alone, eclipsing […] Click here to view full article
The total market cap of the cryptocurrency market reached a new milestone, crossing the $700 bln mark. However, the driving force that is Bitcoin has slumped to all-time lows […] Click here to view full article
John Whelan is blockchain lab director at Banco Santander, where he specializes in the application of blockchains, distributed ledgers and smart contracts within the financial industry. The following […] Click here to view full article
While major stock brokers are lining up to add bitcoin futures to their platforms, central bankers are apparently not too happy about it. A member of the European Central […] Click here to view full article
The first few days of 2018 have shown a booming start of the year for cryptocurrency, with the total market value pushing new all-time highs and many coins seeing […] Click here to view full article
Rising Ripple Threatens to Usurp Bitcoin, Ushering In “The Rippening” First came ethereum, which threatened to unseat bitcoin as the dominant cryptocurrency in an event dubbed The Flippening. Then […] Click here to view full article
It has been a rather interesting week for fans of Ripple and XRP price speculators. Although most people assumed surpassing $2 was only a temporary measure and would eventually […] Click here to view full article
The South Korean cryptocurrency market accounts for a relatively small percentage of global Bitcoin trades, but has nonetheless played a crucial role in bringing RIpple’s market capitalization from $40 […] Click here to view full article
Photo Credit: Shutterstock It’s safe to say that a lot happened in 2017. From European elections to Trump’s travel ban to surges in cryptocurrency price, all of these events […] Click here to view full article
Shutterstock Bitcoin, “the new gold,” has been beating conventional gold by a big margin YTD. The Bitcoin Investment Trust has gained a whopping 1407.42%, while SPDR Gold Shares have […] Click here to view full article
Image: Getty Images Move over ethereum and litecoin — ripple is suddenly the hot new cryptocurrency. But ripple is different. It can’t be mined. It can’t be used to go […] Click here to view full article
Ripple’s XRP set its latest price record today. Shutterstock Ripple’s XRP token climbed its latest price record today, pushing higher as investors flocked to the digital currency. XRP tokens rose […] Click here to view full article
Stefan Thomas is chief technical officer at Ripple and co-creator of the Interledger payment protocol. The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review . […] Click here to view full article
Goldman Sachs will be the first Wall Street giant to get involved with the cryptocurrency-related trading activity. Cryptocurrency – which is not a favorable term used on Wall Street […] Click here to view full article
Chart via CoinMarketCap.com The price of Ripple’s XRP token has passed a dollar for the first time in its history. Currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, XRP passed the […] Click here to view full article
In August, the hedge I cofounded, Multicoin Capital, published an analysis of XRP, the native token of the Ripple network. We presented a bearish view of XRP tokens. A […] Click here to view full article
Ripple on Tuesday announced that it had added a former Morgan Stanley veteran, Zoe Cruz, to its board of directors, further cementing the startup’s ties — and, by extension, […] Click here to view full article
Today, Switzerland-based online banking service provider Swissquote launched four more cryptocurrencies on its trading platform – Bitcoin Cash, Ether, Litecoin, and Ripple. It already offers Bitcoin trading. Learn how […] Click here to view full article
Bloomberg decides to add three altcoins – Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple – to its terminals after the cryptocurrencies showing significant strength in the market, this week. In the past […] Click here to view full article
Ripple goes crazy by posting a 100% surge in past 24-hours and now holds a market cap of over $30 billion. While altcoins like Ethereum and Litecoin are rallying […] Click here to view full article
Photo: Rachel McIntosh Share this article Learn how to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum safely with our simple guide! Bitcoin has been getting a healthy share of attention over the […] Click here to view full article
Photo: FM Share this article In an official statement, Japanese and South Korean banks have announced that they will begin the anticipated testing the blockchain technology with US blockchain […] Click here to view full article
Ripple , also known as XRP, has more than doubled in price this week. On Friday, A group of Asian banks plans to test the technology for global […] Click here to view full article
The Italian giant TAS Group and the Austrian start-up that has made a name as leading Bitcoin ATM provider are teaming up to deliver a crypto debit card. It […] Click here to view full article
Ripple (XRP), the fourth largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, continues to take the banking world by storm. At press time, the price of its XRP token […] Click here to view full article
Image: Wit Olszewski/shutterstock Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap (behind Bitcoin), is currently trading at $707, a 20% increase in the last 24 hours. This is a new […] Click here to view full article
Photo: FM Share this article On December 8th, South Korean agricultural and commercial banking giant Nonghyup (NH) Bank announced that it has joined R3 blockchain consortium. Learn how to […] Click here to view full article
Shutterstock.com It’s a good day for someone who believes in cryptocurrencies that aren’t Bitcoin. Don’t get me wrong — Bitcoin is doing just fine. At $17,459, it’s grown more than […] Click here to view full article
Blockchain changes the world. It is obvious for many people that after October 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto wrote his landmark article “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” data storage […] Click here to view full article
AlphaEx.net will maintain XinFin’s XDC trading pair against ETHEREUM, BITCOIN and Ripple to provide liquidity for it’s tradefinex, remittance and IoT Pilot projects with global institutions. AlphaEx.net today […] Click here to view full article
Photo: FM Share this article Spain’s second-largest lender, BBVA, in collaboration with Wave, has launched a blockchain-based pilot program to automate document presentation in import-export operations between Spain and […] Click here to view full article
Photo: FM Share this article Three banks (Axis Bank, Standard Chartered, and Rakbank) have announced their decision to adopt Ripple’s blockchain-based payment platform, the RippleNet , as a means […] Click here to view full article
In a voice that is all too familiar for Bitcoiners, another major lending institution has warned against everyday investors putting their money into Bitcoin. This time it is Deutsche […] Click here to view full article
Content Presented by The NAGA Group Learn More Blockchain technology’s disruptive force in business and commerce has been well documented. With strong momentum ensuing from its beginnings as the […] Click here to view full article
Shutterstock Startups today have many options to raise capital. While bootstrapping works for some, most need an infusion of funds to get off the ground. Companies now have a […] Click here to view full article
‘End the Fed’ Evangelist Ron Paul Plugs Bitcoin IRA for Retirement The notorious former U.S. congressman, Ron Paul, is now telling FOX Business viewers to invest in bitcoin through […] Click here to view full article
On November 16, 2017, American Express (Amex) announced that, in partnership with Santander UK, it will expand its business-to-business cross-border payment service with a blockchain system through the company’s […] Click here to view full article
Photo: FM Share this article Much has been made about distributed ledgers and particularly Blockchain in recent years. Improved security through a higher level of encryption, increased trust through […] Click here to view full article
The NAGA Group AG welcome Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver and COO Mate Tokay to the NAGA board of advisors German FinTech company The Naga Group AG announced today that […] Click here to view full article
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace attend a meeting of his ruling ZANU PF party’s youth league in Harare Thomson Reuters Good morning! Here’s what you need […] Click here to view full article
PR: Bitcoin’s Roger Ver and Mate Tokay Join Naga Board of Advisers This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising […] Click here to view full article
German FinTech company The Naga Group AG announced today that Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver had joined NAGA’s board of advisors. Furthermore, Ver’s colleague and Bitcoin.com COO Mate Tokay has […] Click here to view full article
Four crypto-currency blockchain veterans (i.e. at least a years’ experience) gathered at Ripple’s Swell conference in Toronto had their differences but did agree that blockchains have a role to […] Click here to view full article
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) is pulling out of crypto VC firm NextBlock Global’s public listing after a Forbes article Wednesday revealed several falsehoods in one of its […] Click here to view full article
Coin Trader bitcoin retail store in Tokyo, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg) By 2014, Bitcoin was just about ready to hit the mainstream in Japan. Mt. Gox was a Tokyo based […] Click here to view full article
OffExchange is a person-to-person Multi-Cryptocurrency trading site. At OffExchange, people from different countries can exchange their local currency to cryptocurrency. The site allows users to post advertisements where they […] Click here to view full article
BII With more than 1,100 cryptocurrencies and a total market cap of approximately $150 billion circulating in the market today, this ‘next-gen gold’ has taken the financial world by storm. The […] Click here to view full article
Image by Kopytin Georgy via Shutterstock.com A new blockchain-based cross-border payments solution developed by IBM in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation and KlickEx Group is set to significantly […] Click here to view full article
This week, Toronto is hosting two major payment technology conferences – Ripple’s Swell conference and the Sibos 2017 conference by international payments platform ‘SWIFT’. Some of the very noted […] Click here to view full article
Bernanke: Former Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent comments about bitcoin and its network add to his growing list of hardening stances toward the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. […] Click here to view full article
On October 13, 2017, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a case brought by the blockchain firm R3 Holdco against Ripple Labs, another company active in the space, ruling […] Click here to view full article
News world Possible use cases for a tokenized Australian dollar have been submitted to the Reserve Bank of Australia and federal Treasury by FinTech companies. On October 16, 2017, […] Click here to view full article
A "mostly speculative venture." What does the former head of the Federal Reserve think of a digital currency that operates outside the control of central banks? The answer, unsurprisingly, is […] Click here to view full article
Barely a day goes by without a fresh announcement about how banks are seeking to use blockchain technology to transform sizeable chunks of their business. Combining shared databases and cryptography, […] Click here to view full article
The Impact Award is for larger and more established fintech companies, which are starting to have an effect on the financial services industry, while the Innovation Award is for […] Click here to view full article
5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Bart Stephens is the co-founder and managing partner of Blockchain Capital , the oldest and most active venture capital firm […] Click here to view full article
Ripple enterprise blockchain network now encounters over 100 innovative financial institutions including AirWallex, Bexs Banco, Credit Agricole, Cuallix, Currencies Direct, dLocal, IFX, Krungsri, RAKBANK and TransferGo which have recently […] Click here to view full article
Is the cryptocurrency bitcoin the biggest bubble in the world today, or a great investment bet on the cutting edge of new-age financial technology? My best guess is that […] Click here to view full article
The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, has added yet another blockchain proof-of-concept (PoC) to its growing fintech accelerator program. The institution is working with blockchain startup Chain on […] Click here to view full article
1. India is currently the seventh-largest economy in the world. It currently has an estimated population of about 1.34 bln people, or about 18 percent of the world’s […] Click here to view full article
Chief executive of cryptocurrency start-up Ripple , Brad Garlinghouse , has spoken out at the number of companies and people using Blockchain technology more as a buzzword, rather than […] Click here to view full article
The cryptocurrency that powers Ripple’s XRP ledger is showing signs it may be consolidating ahead of a boost. At press time, the XRP-U.S. dollar ( XRP/USD ) exchange rate seems […] Click here to view full article
A total of 13 Blockchain startup companies were included in the latest CBS Insights Fintech 250 startup list as of early October 2017. The report compiles “emerging fintech startups […] Click here to view full article
"What’s the future of Swift?" Since the rise of blockchain technology, the fate of the financial messaging platform has been at the center of discussions between startups and incumbents. However, […] Click here to view full article
Image credit: Tokyo, Japan, Pixabay Japan’s financial regulator the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and various financial institutions are developing a common identification system leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate customer […] Click here to view full article
There is more room for Blockchain technology to grow in Asia’s second largest economy, India. Though the technology is still in its nascent stage, it has made in-roads into multiple […] Click here to view full article
The owner of the MiaVita Beytepe project in Ankara, Turkey, has announced that its luxury apartments are available for purchase using bitcoin. The apartments are expected to comprise the […] Click here to view full article
Among the reasons why blockchain has gained so much interest as a platform for development of financial apps and services is the transparency and trust built into it. And, […] Click here to view full article
Japanese information technology equipment and services provider Fujitsu has signed a partnership with the Japanese Bankers’ Association (JBA) for the conduct of a trial on the feasibility of using […] Click here to view full article
Fujitsu, Japan’s largest IT equipment and services provider, is partnering with the Japanese Bankers Association (JBA) in a bid to test the viability of running financial services on a […] Click here to view full article
Ripple and Hyperledger might soon get a chance to reignite an old flame. Following an early promise by Ripple to contribute code to the Hyperledger blockchain consortium’s open-source repository, the […] Click here to view full article
Image credit: Mumbai gateway to India, via Pixabay Ripple has opened a new office in Mumbai, India as the company looks to build its presence in the world’s largest […] Click here to view full article
As blockchain companies have lost the spotlight this year to the burgeoning, hot world of crypto assets, two of the enterprise leaders, R3 and Ripple, are now embroiled in […] Click here to view full article
It seems like everyone is talking about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies nowadays. And in truth, there is more chatter surrounding this industry than ever before. To highlight this, take a […] Click here to view full article
Two of the biggest blockchain companies are suing each other over cryptocurrency options worth more than $1bn in a battle between R3, a New York software developer owned by […] Click here to view full article
Image credit: Mumbai gateway to India, via Pixabay Ripple has opened a new office in Mumbai, India as the company looks to build its presence in the world’s largest […] Click here to view full article
What motivates the creation of a ‘Sci-Fi’ ICO, as opposed to a scam or a fraud, is that there is “no intention to defraud its investors”, it is just […] Click here to view full article
Flag map of the People’s Republic of China JOHANNESBURG — ‘Initial Coin Offerings’ or token sales have become the hottest technology and business trend this year, as these terms […] Click here to view full article
Recently , the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has visited Coinbase and Ripple on a US research delegation having talks about the “significant” cryptocurrency issue. Welcomed China’s central bank, […] Click here to view full article
The use of the digital currencies like Bitcoin continues around the world as different companies in various industries are increasingly accepting them as a form of payment, including in […] Click here to view full article
Leveraging the power of ICOs is a habit of brand-new startups, or even just projects – but the phenomenon is turning into something bigger. The ability of small groups – […] Click here to view full article
While there are a few ways in which to work cryptocurrencies, from day-trading to holding, it is still widely recognised that a long-term investment is best. However, making the […] Click here to view full article
Swift is one step closer to adopting blockchain. After months of work, a team of developers at the inter-bank payments platform have completed a proof-of-concept built with the Hyperledger Fabric […] Click here to view full article
Ethereum fans got a bit of a boost today from two different companies in the crypto space. UK-based cryptocurrency firm Blockchain and Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp have each added […] Click here to view full article
ICON wants to connect all of South Korea. While hundreds of blockchain projects are cropping up around the world, the technology’s true potential to seamlessly share information is still […] Click here to view full article
OPINION In this guest post, blockchain theorist Melanie Swan discusses three recent developments in the blockchain economy, using classical economic principles to distinguish between hype and long-term structural change. […] Click here to view full article
Based on the policies involving cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technologies, UK moves to liberalization of cryptocurrencies while the US looks into more regulations . The World Bank estimates $429 bln of […] Click here to view full article
A specialized task force set up by the U.S. Federal Reserve has received a slew of new proposals outlining how it might utilize technology to speed up services. In total, […] Click here to view full article
A specialized task force set up by the U.S. Federal Reserve has received a slew of new proposals outlining how it might utilize technology to speed up services. In total, […] Click here to view full article
On July 11, 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Goldman Sachs a patent for a “Cryptographic currency for securities settlement.” The patent, which was originally filed […] Click here to view full article
BI Intelligence See Also Audi is laying the groundwork for drivers to be media consumers THE FINTECH PROFITABILITY REPORT: Why fintechs are struggling to turn a profit, and […] Click here to view full article
Ripple , which touts itself as the “Global Settlement Network” and has been involved with various banks to move money around the world, has its own ideas about how […] Click here to view full article
JOHANNESBURG — 2017 has so far been another roller coaster ride for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum . After surging past the $3,000 mark, Bitcoin recently came crashing […] Click here to view full article
The Turkish government is preparing to initiate a two-year plan designed to crush illegal gambling within the nation. Among the regulations currently under consideration by the Turkish government are […] Click here to view full article
Digital currency prices have soared recently, with reports from the past few months showing enormous valuation increases for currencies across the board. Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum have all experienced exponential […] Click here to view full article
Government and decentralized autonomy: a seemingly natural contradiction. To some in the crypto-space, those two concepts complement each other like parkas at pool parties. But as fun as maximalist […] Click here to view full article
My journey into the dark economy starts much as expected: in front of a computer screen, late at night. It ends somewhere quite unexpected, in a humdrum setting a […] Click here to view full article
Last Sunday a message posted on message board 4Chan started the rumor that Vitalik Buterin, the founder of cryptocurrency Ethereum, had been killed in a car crash. News of […] Click here to view full article
The $600m market for initial coin offerings may soon be set to expand. Announced today, investment firm Pantera Capital is launching a new hedge fund focused on investments solely in […] Click here to view full article
"It’s clear that consumers are demanding a better banking experience and have, in fact, come to expect their banking to be like the rest of their digital lives – […] Click here to view full article
Banks have woken up to the potential for distributed-ledger technology and cryptocurrencies to improve the old convoluted system of cross-border payments. Now it appears that the International Monetary Fund […] Click here to view full article
$82 bln banking giant Morgan Stanley and leading financial institution Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) are utilizing Blockchain technology-based platforms to maintain backup records and process transactions. Earlier […] Click here to view full article
When Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, has to explain to his mother, who lives in Kansas, what his company does, he says, "Mom, it’s pretty simple. We sell […] Click here to view full article
Global banking consortium R3 has closed the largest funding round in the history of distributed ledger technology. Revealed today at Consensus 2017 , over 40 financial institutions participated in […] Click here to view full article