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Stellar-backed IBM project in a wiry rivalry with Ripple
The concept of money transfer seems to be on a U-turn as blockchain technology sets to change the way cross-border payments get done. In this sense, Ripple is at the frontier of evolving money transfer and remittances, and it is now facing intense competition with a Stellar-backed venture by IBM.
It is necessary to know that IBM is almost trying to get the attention away from Ripple and lead the race to change the face of cross-border payments in the world.
At the moment, we now have SWIFT, Ripple, and IBM in the realm of cross-border payments. Nonetheless, SWIFT is still the most significant payment mean in the world, because it has more than 200+ countries registered on its network.
Also, SWIFT records more than a trillion daily volume on its transaction. Due to this fact, Ripple is garnering towards to mass adoption and getting a large percentage of SWIFT’s business.
At the moment, it has almost gotten about 50% of India’s payment means, with India’s biggest bank included. Also, it’s now the primary network for SMEs and the unbanked, thus, providing a faster and cheaper means for them.
Even though Ripple appears to be offering great services when it comes to cross-border payments, Stellar and the Stellar-backed project by IBM look all set to be competing with Ripple full-time.
Based on statements by IBM, its DLT-powered payment system seems to put more weight on Ripple to increase its reach, and increase the adoption rate to become relevant in the cross-border realm.
“Our convening power brings together incumbent and FinTechs, ensuring collaborative innovation with data security, compliance, and consumer focus,” reads IBM’s statement.
A part of its press release states:
“It all means funds can now be transferred at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional correspondent banking.”
On the IBM powered-solutions, the company has claimed it is managing about 60% of the world’s global transactions, and also offers BWW (Blockchain World Wire) which is a big launching pack, thrusting it to the World’s Financial Sector that is poised to increase by $2 trillion in the year 2020.
Just recently, IBM and Stellar revealed a proposal to create a transaction scheme for the South Pacific region with KlickEx. The recent news is seen as a new development for IBM.
IBM hasn’t stopped here as the company also announced the launch of Stronghold USD – a United States coin that runs on Stellar protocol.
Both Ripple and Stellar look alike as both assets offer the same services, but stellar is open-source, and it is not owned by anybody or persons, unlike Ripple (as the company is alleged to be the one who owns XRP tokens in mass quantity).
Nonetheless, the level of negative hype around Ripple is likely because it’s price is below what it used to be. At the time of writing, XRP is priced at $0.268 and in the red.
Nevertheless, XRP is still recognized globally, and it will continue to be a major company to foster cross-border payments to the world. At the moment, Ripple needs more creativity, plans, lots of adoption to be the leading solution and beat Stellar-IBM combo. Only the time will tell who wins.
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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.
Notably, the Solana DeFi ecosystem accomplished a significant milestone earlier this week. Its Total Value Locked (TVL) hit a new yearly peak of over $655 million,…
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