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Top Ripple Insights Posts of 2019
The last time the world was on the cusp of a new decade, the Bitcoin Whitepaper was only a few years old, Ripple was yet to be founded and slow cross-border payments were widely accepted as the status quo. As we stand on the doorstep of a…
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The Ripple Drop: Predictions for 2020
This special holiday episode of The Ripple Drop reflects on the impact of blockchain technology and digital assets over the past decade—and what’s ahead for the industry as we stand on the doorstep of a new year. Members of our executive…
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Swell 2019: Closing Academia and Industry’s Blockchain Gap Through UBRI
“Mind the Gap” is a beloved warning from London’s Underground that has since crossed over into popular culture, appearing in video games, books and on t-shirts around the world. It was also the subtext of Dr. Paolo Tasca’s fireside chat…
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Ripple Caps Record Year With $200 Million Series C Funding
Today, Ripple is thrilled to announce $200 million in Series C funding—an investment that marks a record year for the business and further proves the value of blockchain technology in improving global payments and the broader utility of…
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2020: The Year of the Digital Asset
Standing on the doorstep of a new year and a new decade, it is hard to believe that the first real public engagement with digital assets began only a few short years ago in 2017. Over that year and into the next, speculators and media…
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SendFriend Uses On-Demand Liquidity to Save Customers Up to 80% In Remittance Fees
Last year, more than $45 billion was spent in fees on remittance services by migrants all over the world who send money home to family and friends. In today’s digital age, remitters send money across the globe and expect services that are…
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Swell 2019: Fueling Blockchain Adoption and Innovation
Swell 2019 discussions and presentations centered around the numerous ways businesses today are implementing blockchain technology. But just how far-reaching is adoption of this technology? At the event’s closing fireside, Ripple VP…
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Blockchain Technology Is Game Changing
Gaming is a $140 billion global industry. This massive scale is driven largely by digital economies created through in-game virtual purchases that unlock specific game features, unique abilities and characters and items, among other…
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On Campus: Kyoto University Professor Envisions Long-Tail Impact of Blockchain Study
Professor Naoyuki Iwashita was a crypto finance expert long before the craze of 2017—in fact, before it was even invented. As one of Japan’s leading economists and a financial expert, he began helping the Central Bank of Japan…
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Global Payments That Finally Work
Vice President of Product Marketing, Kevin Mole Swell 2019 opened with a powerful quote from our CEO Brad Garlinghouse, “To fix the friction in payments, we need to reset the plumbing by resetting the fundamental architecture of how…
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