SWIFT's latest analysis reveals that while its network processes 75% of payments within 10 minutes, the final stage of cross-border payments—processing and crediting at the recipient bank—causes about 80% of total delays. These last-mile frictions stem from regulatory, FX, infrastructure, and manual process challenges. The findings support arguments by XRP proponents who highlight blockchain's potential to improve end-to-end speed and cost. SWIFT's new Payment Optimisation Index aims to help the industry tackle these bottlenecks, aligning with the G20 goal of faster, cheaper international payments by 2027.
XRP's futures market is experiencing intense activity with both bulls and bears facing significant liquidations around the $1.43 to $1.60 price range. Binance traders are heavily leveraged, leading to over $13 million in liquidations in 24 hours, spl...
Rich, host of Common Sense Crypto, considers XRP trading above $3.40 a conservative estimate given upcoming regulatory decisions, tokenization growth, and potential ETF demand. He challenges market cap limits on XRP's price, emphasizing its role in p...
Ripple is urging the XRP Ledger community to withdraw the long-standing XChainBridge (XLS-38) amendment, which was designed to enable cross-chain bridging on the network. The company cites a lack of developer demand and the fact that Axelar's network...
21Shares has changed the pricing benchmark for its U.S. XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) TOXR from the CME CF XRP-Dollar Reference Rate to the FTSE XRP Index, effective August 27. This change affects only the pricing methodology and does not alter the ...
Despite record $1.566 billion inflows into XRP ETFs, XRP's price has pulled back, showing a supply-demand imbalance and cautious investor sentiment. Institutional interest remains, but price fluctuations are driven by ETF flows, whale accumulation, a...
