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Waves of good news for Ripple’s XRP, price still keeps dipping, when moon?

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Ripple XRP

Ripple’s XRP was last year’s best performing coin so as the current year started, it had gained credibility, and much was expected from it. So far it’s been relatively shaky (which is no mean feat in a market that’s been bearish for 7+ months now), but it’s performed more or less in the same way as the whole market has, which is to say, dismally.

And yet, there’s reason to believe that XRP is severely undervalued and a stream of recent excellent news help prove that point.

BitcoinSuperstore

BitcoinSuperstore is a platform that allows you to use a selection of crypto coins to pay for goods and services online (Amazon and Walmart, for instance). 

The platform just announced it would be accepting XRP as means of payment which gives XRP holders to more than 200,000 online stores all over the world. This is a milestone for Ripple as it means that non-institutional users will finally be able to transact in micropayments using Ripple’s token.

https://twitter.com/BitcoinSuperst1/status/1027299296792719360

Coinbase Custody

Coinbase launched a custodial service a month ago, more or less, and it’s considering forty digital assets to use as wealth storage for their institutional clients. 

While this means only one new user for XRP, the announcement denotes confidence in XRP’s future performance and reliability. This doesn’t mean that Ripple’s XRP will be available for trade at Coinbase, but it will undoubtedly create demand nevertheless.

Transaction Volume

You can follow the way the Ripple ledger evolves in Twitter. The xrpl_monitor Twitter account gives out a tweet for every transaction held in the network, and over the last 24 hours, it’s reported an unusually high number of significant transactions. The good thing about this is that every transaction fee must be paid in XRP so this creates demand for the token thus driving price (or at least, stability) up.

Q2

Ripple Labs announced that 2018’s Q2 had been the best since the company’s foundation. And that happened while the market is bearish. Of course, this has to do with Ripple, the company, and not with Ripple, the token, but the two entities are linked strongly enough that what’s good for one is good for the other as well.

Wirex

Wirex is a company that issues debit cards. Visa debit cards, to be more precise. They announced they are adopting XRP which means that you can connect your digital wallet to a debit card and use XRP to pay for groceries, the movies, cigarettes, or anything else for which you use your card on a regular basis.

This is a breakthrough that could surpass the BitcoinSuperstore one because while the latter is for online use only, this one means that you can use XRP to pay for goods and services in the street. Ripple is, at last, changing their paradigm.

Coinsquare

The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare announced an imminent listing for XRP. New markets, new users, new demand.

TechCrunch founder

It seems that TechCrunch’s founder tried Ripple out, and he loved it. He transferred fifty million dollars through the Ripplenet. The transaction was settled in three seconds, and the fee was 3 cents. 

While this is maybe not the most relevant news in this list, it’s still great PR, and Ripple needs it desperately at a time in which its most direct rival, Stellar Lumens, is getting excellent coverage everywhere.

The future of Ripple (XRP)

Any of the news above should be sufficient to appreciate how robust the Ripple project still is. It’s gaining ground, getting new critical strategic partners and it’s opening itself up to new possibilities such as becoming a consumer currency as well as an institutional one.

To put it simply: XRP is undervalued in epic proportions, and the only reason it’s not been doing great is that the whole market has had a terrible time this year. And currently, what we all are witnessing is the third-biggest (I should instead say worst) bearish run in the history of crypto. But a bull run will arrive sooner or later, and, when it comes, XRP will be positioned to take off spectacularly.

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XNO Token of Xeno NFT Hub listed on Bithumb Korea Exchange

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 25th January, 2021, // ChainWire //

Xeno Holdings Limited (xno.live ), a blockchain solutions company based in Hong Kong, has announced the listing of its ecosystem utility token XNO on the ‘Bithumb Korea’ cryptocurrency exchange on January 21st 2021.

Xeno NFT Hub (market.xno.live ), developed by Xeno Holdings, enables easy minting of digital items into NFTs while also providing a marketplace where anyone can securely trade NFTs.

The Xeno NFT Hub project team includes former members of the technology project Yosemite X based in San Francisco and professionals such as Gabby Dizon who is a games industry expert and NFT space influencer based in Southeast Asia.

NFT(Non-Fungible Token) technology has recently gained huge focus in the blockchain arena and beyond, making waves in the online gaming sector, the art world, and the digital copyrights industry in recent years. The strongest feature of NFTs is that “NFTs are unique digital assets that cannot be replaced or forged”. Unlike fungible tokens such as Bitcoin or Ether, NFTs are not interchangeable for other tokens of the same type but instead each NFT has a unique value and specific information that cannot be replaced. This fact makes NFTs the perfect solution to record and prove ownership of digital and real-world items like works of art, game items, limited-edition collectibles, and more. One of the ways to have a successful…

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Should Crypto Projects Devote Resources to Community Growth and Marketing?

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2020 has been an incredible year for crypto as investors have generated windfall profits and crypto projects have seen their businesses gain the spotlight they’ve been looking for.  While Bitcoin has received most of the attention after major institutional investors announced they were accumulating the increasingly scarce asset, many altcoins have also seen their fair share of glory.  When looking at all the big winners of the past year, the first project that probably comes to mind is Chainlink, having appreciated by more than 550% YTD and now valued at over $4.5 billion.  But, the actual biggest winner of the year is HEX with a YTD return of over 5,000%.

I mention both of the above projects as they have each taken slightly different paths to achieve greatness.  Chainlink has devoted resources toward building a fundamentally sound business with many strategic partnerships while HEX has spent vast sums of money on marketing and promotion.  Both approaches are valid, but one thing is certain, it is absolutely imperative for crypto projects to let the crypto community know what makes them special.  Of course, one of the reasons that makes crypto so valuable is the powerful blockchain technology that most projects are utilizing.

Cryptocurrency vs. Blockchain Technology

It’s important to make a distinction between blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.  Although they are often used interchangeably, they are different.  Blockchain technology and crypto were both created after the 2008 financial crisis, but cryptocurrency…

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XENO starts VIP NFT trading service and collaborates with contemporary artist Hiro Yamagata

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 24th December, 2020, // ChainWire //

The XENO NFT Hub (https://xno.live) will provide a crypto-powered digital items and collectables trading platform allowing users to create, buy, and sell NFTs. Additionally it will support auction based listings, governance and voting mechanisms, trade history tracking, user rating and other advanced features.

As a first step towards its fully comprehensive service, XENO NFT Hub launched a recent VIP service to select users and early adopters in December 2020 with plans for a full Public Beta to open in June 2021. 

“NFTs are extremely flexible in their usage, from digital event tickets to artwork, and while NFTs have a very wide spectrum of uses and categories XENO will initially focus its partnership efforts and its own item curation on three primary areas: gaming, sports & entertainment, and collectibles.”, said XENO NFT Hub president Anthony Di Franco.

He also added “This does not mean we will prohibit other types of NFTs from our ecosystem However, it simply means that XENO’s efforts as a company will be targeted into these verticals initially as a cohesive business approach.”

Development and Procurement Lead, Gabby Dizon explained, “Despite our initial focus, we found ourselves with a unique opportunity to host some of the works of Mr. Hiro Yamagata. We are collaborating with Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata to enshrine some of his artwork into NFTs.”

Mr. Yamagata has…

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