This Country Is Going Onchain — And Ripple Rival Stellar Just Landed The Deal
The Stellar Development Foundation and the Government of Bermuda have announced that the island nation will begin moving key payment and financial services activity onto the Stellar network — marking the first operational milestone in Bermuda’s stated ambition, declared at the World Economic Forum in January 2026, to become the world’s first fully on-chain national economy. Related Reading: Bitcoin Rally At Risk: This Critical Resistance Could End BTC’s Bullish Run The partnership, announced via Stellar’s official press release, is not a pilot study or a working group. It....
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Apparently, there are some very angry feelings between payment network startups Ripple and Stellar, and the New York Observer has published a 15,000 word article spilling all the juicy details. Apparently, Ripple and Stellar were going out for quite some time. They were thought to be the cutest couple by all of their friends, and their families were sure an engagement was imminent, but then it turned out that Stellar was cheating on Ripple with a bitcoin mining operation all this time. Ripple discovered the sensual love letter hidden in a closet and decided to confront Stellar a week....
In the latest XRP news, Ripple is reportedly partnering with Stellar as both firms look to revolutionize the payments industry. This came as crypto pundit ProfRippl highlighted the link between both firms through the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Ripple Reportedly Working With Stellar In an X post, ProfRippl revealed that Ripple and Stellar are working […]
A recent unintended ledger fork in the Stellar network led to a temporary disruption of its transaction system and a broader debate about the integrity of the Ripple consensus protocol. The debate began on 5th December, when Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) executive director Joyce Kim published a blog post outlining a fork in the Stellar network that the company attributed to problems within the Ripple consensus protocol. Both Ripple Labs and Stellar use the open-source protocol to provide competing transaction networks that allow fiat money to be sent over the blockchain. The....
Although it has yet to overtake Ripple, Jed McCaleb's Stellar has performed respectably in its first several months. The payment gateway's native currency has consistently remained in the top-twenty on the market cap charts. However, the stellar price has not been living up to its name over the past couple weeks. Also read: Stellar Price Rises Despite Bitcion Price Drop. Stellar Price Reaches Three-Week Low. On October 9, the stellar price fell to 662 satoshis, which marked a three-week low for Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb's latest altcoin project. As recently as September 29, the stellar....
MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes said the international remittances stalwart wants to be a bridge between the crypto and fiat worlds. MoneyGram International, one of the world’s largest cross-border transfer services, is partnering with the Stellar blockchain to create a stablecoin-based platform for money transfers. The new service will allow Stellar wallet users to send Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) to recipients, who will be able to cash them out for fiat currency through the MoneyGram network.“We’re trying to be a bridge from the crypto world to the fiat world,” MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes said in....