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Ripple price might see a sharp rise again when new payment option spreads
We all know, recently, Ripple had a significant price surge, making its value to increase more than 60% in a week. It has been speculated that the reason for the recent price surge was due to the upcoming launch of XRapid – a new means of payment that will help the transactions of financial industries.
However, there could be another price surge with Ripple after a new means of payment for content creators through a technology startup company called Coil gets declared.
It is necessary to note that Coil is a tech startup based in San Francisco, United States. A former Ripple executive founded the company. Coil has decided to benefit content creators through a means known as Web Monetization – a way in which websites can get paid using Interledger directly.
During the recent price surge, Ripple (XRP) value increased drastically and helped its market capitalization surpass that of Ethereum within 24 hours. Although, the current price of crypto is still below its all-time price.
At the press time, Ripple is trading above $0.53, with a market cap of $21 billion. The coin currently occupies the No.3 position according to market capitalization.
Platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, and Wikipedia have been incorporated into Coil’s platform, which means that viewers can now be able to donate XRP tokens to these platforms.
Through this, Coil will charge $5 monthly for subscribing to its service – but it currently is on invite only. Although, the platform is warming up to register users very soon.
Subsequently, Ripple’s former executive stated through a Medium post that:
“For decades, people have discussed the potential of micropayments to support content creators that would move us away from the broken ad-supported web.”
He further added,
“Others have created subscription services that bundle content. But micropayments and subscriptions have always been built as closed systems, which fail to capture the huge variety of content on the web.”
Coil is set to be in stiff competition with web browser Brave and ChangeTip, being that both platforms offer the same services as Coil. But the only difference is, both of them do not make use of blockchain technology whereas Coil does.
Also, Sagar Sarbhai, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regulatory relations head at Ripple, revealed to CNBC that xRapid would go live next month.
It is important to note that xRapid is one of Ripple’s products that will help XRP. xRapid will speed the money transactions with banks and other FinTech companies. That could also increase the price of XRP and increase mass adoption of Ripple blockchain.
Ripple’s community is happy with the increased rate of mass adoption from various notable financial companies. Marcus Treacher, Ripple’s the global head of strategic accounts, has laid more emphasis on Ripple’s mass adoption and stated,
“RippleNet’s newest corridors have a combined potential market that totals over $2 Billion in inflows over the last year: InstaReM and RationalFX opened up new corridors from the United Kingdom to Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Remitr and FlitterWave established a RippleNet corridor to Nigeria from Canada, the first connection on RippleNet in Africa. BeeTech and InstaRem creators from Brazil to Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Portugal.”
Conclusively, we shouldn’t be surprised if we see a drastic increase in the price of Ripple before the year closes.
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Solana price performance in recent times has been remarkable, surpassing Ripple and Binance Coin to become the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. The SOL price breached the critical level of $100 for the first time since April 2022 over the weekend to imbue optimism among investors. However, the altcoin has corrected by 7%, suggesting that the market is overheated. At the time of writing, the ‘Ethereum killer’ was trading slightly lower at $111.60.
SOL Outlook
Solana price has made a significant recovery over the past few weeks, climbing above the psychological level of $100. The altcoin has been one of the best-performing assets this year, extending its year-to-date gains to more than 1,025%, with more gains recorded in the past month alone. However, even with such growth, analysts have noted that Solana has a bleak chance of topping its ATH of $260.
The reason behind this is the increase in supply relative to its value. In November 2021, when the Solana price hit its all-time high of $260, its total market capitalization was around $78 billion. Despite the value of the crypto asset being less than half of what it was at the top, its market cap is currently hovering near $50 billion.
This has been brought about by the increase in the Solana supply by more than 100 million SOL over the past two years. According to some analysts, for the altcoin to retest $260, its…
Solana price has noted significant gains over the past few weeks, climbing to its highest level since April 2022. The ‘Ethereum Killer’ almost topped the crucial level of $100 on Friday, before pulling back slightly. The asset’s recent surge has catapulted Solana’s total market cap to $39.6 billion, ranking 5th after and above BNB and XRP, respectively. Solana has jumped by more than 22% in the past week and more than 80% in the month to date. At the time of writing, SOL price was trading 0.90% lower at $93.10.
Catalysts Behind SOL’s Rally
Solana price has been on a strong bull run over the past few days, rocketing to its highest level in 20 months as the network benefits from the substantial activity and strong interest in memecoins. The SOL token, the native digital asset of the high-performance blockchain platform Solana, has shown some serious strength over the past few weeks, outperforming all the altcoins in the market.
The recent surge in the Solana price has been linked to heightened on-chain activities on the Solana blockchain. Notably, the ongoing hype for the blockchain’s speedy transactions, cheap fees, and a lottery of meme coin issuances has buoyed SOL’s on-chain activity. Metrics have revealed that Solana has been the strongest draw among on-chain traders, with trading volumes and network fees outperforming Ethereum- the largest altcoin by market cap.
Cited figures provided by DeFi aggregator DeFiLlama…
Solana price has jumped more than 8% over the past week, breaching the important level of $60. At the time of writing, Solana was trading 3% higher at $61.07. The asset’s total market cap has climbed to $25.9 billion over the past week, ranking it the 6th largest cryptocurrency after XRP. The total volume of SOL traded over the last day has declined by 8%.
SOL’s Bullish Cues
Solana’s price has been among the best-performing cryptocurrencies this year amid continuous growth. The “Ethereum killer” has consistently impressed investors throughout the year on the back of a resurgence in bullishness, which saw SOL’s price climb more than 513% in the year to date. Institutional investors have also shared the bullish sentiment, making Solana their most preferred altcoin.
In the week ending November 24, Solana recorded inflows worth nearly $3.5 million, significantly more than the other altcoins’ inflows combined. The asset’s monthly inflows were higher at $40.2 million, lower than Ethereum’s $99.6 million inflows in the same period. Other altcoins, including Litecoin and Ethereum, noted significant outflows, making Solana nearly half of the home for DeFi. This implies that when it comes to institutions, Solana is currently the best-performing altcoin with the potential of a long-term rally much higher than other digital assets.
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