Ripple Releases Interledger to Connect Banks and Blockchains
Ripple Labs shortened its name to Ripple this week, a move which according to company officials, signals its products are now "out of the lab" and ready for use. Long one of the more well-funded startups in industry, Ripple was arguably the first to focus on use cases for distributed ledgers, introducing an alternative ledger that deviated from bitcoin's method for consensus and featured its own unique digital currency, XRP, as early as 2012. Since then, Ripple has increasingly put forth in its public messaging that it is seeking to realize an "Internet of Value", a term that denotes a....
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In his new piece on Medium, Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas has explained why he thinks blockchain is a complex technology when compared with the Interledger Protocol. In his recent post, he said: Blockchains are a pain to work with. Everyone who has done it knows what I’m talking about. The fact that blockchain has been largely ignored by major tech companies and embraced by the financial industry is partly because that industry has a relatively high tolerance for arcane and complex systems. The open-source developer and distributed systems advocate who has been working on Interledger, cite the....
Microsoft has issued an update on the progress of its blockchain toolkit offering, revealing it is exploring how to add Ripple's Interledger protocol as it seeks to enhance the service. First announced in October as an update to its Azure cloud computing platform, Microsoft's BaaS offering currently allows developers to deploy private and semi-public blockchain networks on Ethereum and otherwise experiment with the decentralized application platform. In a new blog post, Marley Gray, Microsoft's director for technology strategy in US financial services, expanded on the program and its....
Ripple Labs has created a lot of interest in blockchain technology with its Interledger Protocol (ILP), including from Apple and Google, according to the International Business Times. The ILP could be bringing the technology to more widespread use. Ripple serves as co-chair of W3C’s Web Payments Working Group, putting the company in regular contact with technology providers. Stefan Thomas, Ripple’s chief technology officer, said Apple, Google, Mozilla and other players are seeking a better user experience for web payments, considering the issues they face relying on card networks. Tech....
The cryptocurrency powering the XRP Ledger (XRPL), XRP, will be accessible via other blockchains. According to an official post, Multichain has added support for the XRPL to connect it with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and non-EVM compliant blockchains. Related Reading | Ethereum Whale Snaps Up $6 Million Worth Of SHIB As Accumulation Trend Continues Formerly […]
Ripple Labs has sealed new partnerships that will bring its Ripple protocol to two US banks. According to the company's 24th September announcement, Kansas-based CBW Bank and Cross River Bank, located in New Jersey, will be the first American banks to adopt Ripple's open-source distributed transaction infrastructure. The news comes several months after Ripple inked its first deal with the banking sector, when German bank Fidor became the first institution of its kind to integrate the Ripple protocol. Like Fidor, CBW Bank and Cross River Bank will now be able to tap Ripple's low-cost....