The bears seem to be taking control of the crypto markets as Bitcoin and altcoins, including Ethereum and XRP, are losing heavily to wipe out all the last week’s gains. But technical indicators suggest good days ahead of this market correction.
Ripple-backed MoneyGram has announced that the new service called FastSend, that was created to allow customers to send money directly to the phone numbers of recipients, will be based on Visa and not on RippleNet or XRP.
Binance is extending partnership with Simplex to provide more fiat payment gateways and eliminate traction. The exchange seems to be aiming at global fiat to crypto payments dominance.
Ripple’s XRP prices experience a crash on the BitMEX derivatives exchange and but quickly recovered. BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes has been in the recent times quoted disapproving XRP openly in the social media.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has recently given an interview to CNN’s Julia Chatterley. It is expected that viewers can watch his interview on “First Move” on February 17.
After a brutal -50% performance in 2019, XRP price has bounced back to start off the new year. Since the $0.17 bottom established in December 2019, the price of the third-largest cryptocurrency has rallied by 75% to over $0.30.
Ripple’s XRP Ledger fundamental changes have been proposed. The community believes it should be possible to delete XRPL accounts within the Ledger.
Xpring recruitment follows its new development relations initiative announced last week. One of the main priorities now is XRP adoption.
Ripple’s XRP price is showing all the signs of reaching $0.60 in the near future, as it is supported by different technical and fundamental aspects.
Bitcoin price gains steam hitting $10,000 level, with the overall crypto market entering bullish price action.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced it hired Iskander Malikov, a former TradingView COO, as new Director of Fiat, Europe and CIS at the exchange. He will focus on establishing new fiat-to-crypto channels for Binance.
Bitcoin price shot 4% on Thursday to surpass $9800 levels along with a sudden spike in the Open Interest. The community is enthusiastic about the upcoming Bitcoin halving event, however, the coronavirus outbreak in China is severely hurting the region’s mining business.
Ripple CEO Brad Gralinghouse has lashed out at Novogratz’s comment on XRP. Galinghouse said that so far in 2020, XRP has successfully managed to outperform Bitcoin. He also pointed out some of Novogratz’s failed predictions from the past.
While some experts are rather bullish about the performance of Ripple’s XRP in 2020, Mike Novogratz believes that the coin will underperform again this year.
Just recently BitMEX has launched XRPUSD swaps. At the very beginning Ripple’s XRP price hasn’t reacted, staying stable. However, now XRP seems to be climbing up.