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According to data by CryptoCompare, XRP’s strong rally in the past two-week period has taken it all the way from $0.1986 (10:00 UTC on July 21) to $0.3262 (03:00 UTC on August 2), which is the highest it has been since February 15. Scott Melker, a crypto trader at Texas West Capital, yesterday, called this […]

MoneyGram has received $15.1 million from Ripple in the second quarter of this year for providing liquidity to the company’s XRP cross-border settlement network, the On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) platform. According to MoneyGram’s second-quarter results, the Texas-based remittances firm received the funds in what it called “market development fees,” which were offset by transaction expenses of […]

Several crypto analysts are pointing to XRP pushing up against significant resistance after reaching a relative price high.

Veteran crypto analyst Peter Brandt said bitcoin appeared to be setting for a new all-time high before settling at $50,000.

YouTube lawyers have countered Ripple and CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s lawsuit by saying the video streaming platform is not liable for cryptocurrency scams and impersonations generated by third parties. 

The number of tweets being published by users on the microblogging platform related to XRP, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has skyrocketed to a new all-time high. According to data from BitInfoCharts, a total of 29,143 tweets related to XRP were published on July 9. The surge saw XRP-related tweets, for the first time ever, […]

Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano believes that Ripple’s success as a payment protocol company may not benefit XRP in the long run. 

PlusToken, an alleged Chinese cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, has just moved well over $100 million worth of XRP and EOS, which could threaten a dump on the market according to blockchain sleuths.

Ripple has been named one of the top 50 most disruptive companies, according to a new report by CNBC. 

Japanese investors prefer bitcoin and XRP over ethereum, according to the results of a new survey by BitMax

A new report on XRP cashflows from flipside has revealed several interesting characteristics about the XRP ecosystem, one of which is Jed McCaleb’s steady liquidation of his assets through Bitstamp.

Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse have been hit with another class-action lawsuit alleging securities laws violations regarding the sale and marketing of the XRP token.

Google-owned YouTube has suspended the channel of Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz, just days after the firm launched a lawsuit against it over its failure to stop XRP giveaway scams on its platform.

Researchers from “community-driven” XRP data aggregator xrplorer have claimed on social media that XRP giveaway scams may have stolen over 8.5 million tokens from users, worth over $1.5 million.

The trend of decreased XRP mentions on Twitter has continued in 2020, with a new Q1 report marking the correlation between XRP’s declining price and social media mentions.

On Wednesday (April 15), Malaysian remittance firm MoneyMatch explained how it has been using Ripple’s technology to “offer cheaper and faster payments to more than 120 countries around the world.”

Several Bank of America executives discussed the future of digital payments, confirming the bank’s partnership with Ripple after years of speculation. 

The Bank of France has touted ethereum and xrp as potential cryptocurrencies to power future central bank digital currencies. 

On Thursday (April 2), Chris Larsen, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Fintech firm Ripple announced that he had “made a full recovery” from COVID-19. 

XRP-powered payment platform XUMM has launched the beta version of the application on Google Play and the iOS App Store. 

The Ripple-powered cross-border payments app launched by Spanish banking giant Santander, One Pay FX, is set to expand to Mexico this year.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is being accused of touting XRP to investors while selling his own holdings of the token, according to an updated complaint made to a class-action lawsuit filed in May 2018. 

The price of XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has risen over 8% over the last 24 hours as it’s outperforming most other top cryptocurrencies.

A total of 1.4 million XRP, worth over $160,000 at press time, have reportedly been stolen from users via a malicious Google Chrome extension.

Remittance firm Intermex, which recently announced a partnership with Ripple, says it will not be using the service in “core” markets like Mexico. 

On Wednesday (March 18), Ripple announced that Thai global remittance firm DeeMoney had become the first non-bank financial institution in Thailand to join RippleNet (Ripple’s global payments network).

Ripple payment platform partner TerraPay has been acquired by a consortium investors in addition to receiving $9.6 million in new capital. 

Recently, Bárbara González Briseño, the Head of Finance at Bitso, Mexico’s largest crypto exchange, talked about her company’s partnership with Californian FinTech firm Ripple.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says that the company would not be profitable without selling XRP. 

On Thursday (February 27), David Schwartz, Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), spoke about the evolution of the XRP Ledger.

On Wednesday (February 26), European online remittance firm Azimo announced that it had partnered with Californian FinTech firm Ripple.  

A recent earnings report by MoneyGram shows that the remittance company received $11.3 million in benefits from RIpple in 2019. 

Ripple’s investment and development arm Xpring is committed to building interoperability bridges between XRP and Ethereum. 

Some signs of strength on the low timeframes make this troublesome altcoin worth watching right now.

Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse appeared in an interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterly, where he compared his company’s growth to Amazon in five years. 

Egypt’s largest bank by total assets, the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), has joined the blockchain-based payment network RippleNet for improved remittance. 

Jeb McCaleb, a Ripple co-founder who served as its CTO until 2013, has reportedly sold over 1 billion XRP so far, and still has 4.7 billion tokens left to sell, according to a report.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz told a room of financial advisers to prepare for another lackluster year for XRP, blaming Ripple as the primary culprit for the coin’s performance. 

On Tuesday (February 4), Miami-headquartered money transfer company International Money Express (aka “Intermex”) announced that it had partnered with Californian FinTech company Ripple in order to implement “new solutions on RippleNet and ODL.”

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges BitMEX is set to debut a new perpetual swap product for XRP- the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, on February 5 at 4:00 UTC.

Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings has announced it will be offering XRP as a benefit for shareholders. 

In a recent interview with Ripple, Michael Brooks, the CEO of freelance marketplace goLance, talked about the benefits (for his business and its clients) of using the Californian company’s RippleNet payment network and the XRP-powered On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service.  

Twitter has banned the XRPTipBot account over claims of “impersonation” causing user funds to be frozen in the process. 

Ripple’s sales of the XRP token have dropped by 80% during the fourth quarter of last year, as them firm sold a total of $13.08 million worth of the third-largest cryptocurrency in Q4.

XRP is still languishing in a long downtrend, which has not been challenged just yet. Some strength is showing up on its BTC chart, which will be needed to consolidate some support on its USD chart.

Bitpay, a bitcoin payments service, enabling businesses to accept and process BTC, has just added XRP to its growing list of supported cryptocurrencies.

XRP has not been exploding like many other leading and medium-cap altcoins, and is proving to be the runt of the litter. Some strength is building on the charts, though, as XRP waits its turn to leave the downtrend.

Heath Tarbert, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has said it isn’t yet clear whether the XRP token is a security or a commodity.

One of the cryptocurrency exchanges operated by Japanese messaging giant LINE, BitBox, is delisting XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, behind only bitcoin and ether.

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs, the company behind the Ripple payment protocol and exchange network, has said the company can’t influence the price of the XRP token, despite being its biggest holder.

Hackers are hijacking the channels of popular YouTubers to turn run cryptocurrency scams over the video-sharing platform. In one reported case, they netted over $15,000 worth of XRP.

Ripple-backed crypto rental startup Omni has announced that it will be ending its operation. 

XRP broke hard up today, after a period of consolidation. Notably, it is outperforming Bitcoin, which is also uptrending and toying with a breakout scenario. A larger reversal is possible if this keeps up.

Ripple, the Silicon Valley-based blockchain company behind the XRP token, is targeting partnerships with banks in Brazil for remittance in 2020.  According to a report by Reuters, Ripple’s blockchain platform intends to expand partnerships with banks in Brazil in an effort to grow into the global remittance market in 2020. Luiz Antonio Sacco, Ripple’s CEO […]

Ripple, the company that helped created the XRP token, has revealed it raised $200 million in a Series C funding round that valued the firm at $10 billion.

On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), Ripple’s XRP payment solution used by “more than two dozen” of the firm’s customers, reportedly helps save up to 80% in remittance fees, according to money transfer firm SendFriend.

Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is considering issuing XRP as a dividend to shareholders following its successful implementation by its subsidiary Morningstar. 

XRP was bought up as Bitcoin was selling off, at least on the XRP/BTC trading pair. This is a dynamic not repeated for Ethereum, and it’s worth noting. But the power of Bitcoin is strong, and outperforming a falling Bitcoin can only be so great.

XRP is responsible for more than 50 percent of total crypto transaction volume over the last 24 hours, as the currency’s usage continues to rise. 

XRP is struggling to lurch over some final hurdles, in an attempt to leave behind a very rocky period of downtrending. But the market seems mostly asleep to XRP’s needs, with very little volume in either direction as price is getting squeezed.