Ripple Is A ‘Silent Killer’: How It’s Using XRP To Solve Crypto’s Biggest Bot...
Much of the crypto market has spent 2026 fixated on XRP’s price chart, which has shed more than 60% from its 2025 peak. However, Ripple itself has been doing something far more consequential, which has been dismantling the structural barriers that have kept crypto on the sidelines. One of the clearest signals came from Ripple’s […]
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Solana has already cemented its reputation as one of the largest competitors of Ethereum which had earned it the nickname of ‘Ethereum Killer’. The community has run with this narrative and it has led to a fierce rivalry between the communities behind both networks. However, Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko has actually come forward to debunk […]
The best crypto projects solve key problems that Bitcoin can’t. The best of the best solve real-world problems as well. Could Ethereum, the OG alternative blockchain, solve one of the biggest challenges in AI development? If it can, $ETH and ERC-20 tokens could lead the best altcoins to new heights, while also pushing real-world AI […]
Backed by mainstream payments technology startup Stripe, decentralized payment network Stellar provides a vision for how digital currency could solve real problems for people with restricted financial access. It may be no wonder then that at San Francisco's Future of Money Summit in early December, the Stellar panel was among the most popular. The digital currency community is increasingly focused on the technology's use in payments, and Stellar aims to provide a decentralized payment system that improves on bitcoin and its closest competitor, Ripple. However, since launching in July after....
How a Cryptographer Named After Harry Potter's Archenemy is Helping Solve Bitcoin's Biggest Problems
In what could become the latest strange-but-true chapter in bitcoin’s history, an anonymous cryptographer named after Harry Potter’s arch nemesis has put forth a proposal experts believe could help solve major issues facing the network. Authored by ‘Tom Elvis Jedusor’ (Voldemort's name in the French versions of the book), the Harry Potter references in the paper don’t stop there. The proposal itself, posted to chat channels earlier this August, is named ‘Mimblewimble’ after a tongue-tying curse meant to render an opponent silent. Yet despite the allusions to the popular fantasy series, the....
Ripples owners, OpenCoin, have announced that they will make the payment system available on an open source license beginning September 26. The payment platform also has its own currency, some 100 billion of which have been mined in advance. But the parent company’s choice to keep Ripple closed sourced until now has been met with controversy. OpenCoin’s founders have said all along that they were planning to open source Ripple. CTO Stefan Thomas said there were some issues that had to be fixed before open sourcing, otherwise Ripple “would have likely sustained significant network....