Ripple has announced a partnership that will bring blockchain technology to MoneyGram, a leading global money transfer firm that operates in more than 200 countries. As part of the deal, Ripple has committed $50 million to MoneyGram, which it can draw on in exchange for equity over the life of the two-year deal.
R3/SWIFT deal threatens to bring back an old conflict
Partnership still won’t bring DLT’s decentralization to the decades-old industry
Enterprise blockchain provider R3 will partner with SWIFT, the service banks have long used to process secure interbank payments, to bring distributed ledger technology to the most powerful middleman in the financial world..
The 2019 Modern Consensus 100 Most Influential People in Crypto
The individuals moving, shaking, and shaping cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology right now
Who are the most influential people in crypto today? It’s one we often contemplate at Modern Consensus and, with the start of the year, we thought we’d try to answer it as best we can—with a list, of course.
Ripple’s xRapid ‘Goes Live’ at SWELL
Four partners confirmed as superfans delight over prospects for XRP
The idea of transferring value from one place to another was forever changed by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, which led to the introduction of distributed ledger technology (DLT), or blockchain, and the first ever Bitcoin. Originally intended to be used outside the purview of banks—notably in the case of Bitcoin—Ripple has instead embraced the idea that banks and other financial institutions provide one of the largest potential use-cases for DLT. Ripple’s vision has been to “rewire the global financial infrastructure to dramatically improve the costs, speed, and certainty of how transactions flow,” according to CEO Brad Garlinghouse in a video published by Ripple in March of 2018. Garlinghouse…
