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While all eyes are still glued to the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States to give a verdict on the first Bitcoin ETF, the Swiss regulators have just raced ahead. According to the latest updates coming from Switzerland, the main stock exchange has given a green light to the world’s first exchange-traded product tracking multiple cryptocurrencies. As the BTC prices hit the lowest point for the year, Swiss regulators took the opportunity to bring some cheer to the market as they announced the world’s first cryptocurrency-based exchange-traded product. The Amun Crypto ETP, which will start trading next week on the SIX exchange in Zurich, has been designed to track an index based on the movements of five leading cryptocurrencies. The ETP has been set up in a way where just under half of the ETP’s assets will be invested in bitcoin with the remainder divided between XRP (25.4 per cent), Ethereum (16.7 per cent), bitcoin cash (5.2 per cent) and Litecoin (3 per ce...

The inter-ledger protocol designed to change the internet as we know it, facilitating the internet of value. To learn more, listen to the video below:

The XRP DLT will certainly become the global standard for the Internet of Value.  The xrp based DLT referred to as the INTER-LEDGER will require a certain amount of xrp to function across different ledgers. It's also connects and enables communications and value transfer across all ledgers on the internet.  This singular approach will make the xrp the ''petrol'' that is needed to facilitate movement of value across the whole new internet frame work. Think of owning XRP as potentially owning gold, or even an oil well. Listen to the video below:

Why Stellar When IBM was researching which network to build their distributed ledger technology (DLT) products on, they considered Bitcoin, Ripple, and Stellar. Learn more about IBM's partnership with Stellar  here . Bitcoin Bitcoin would have been a non-starter. One, it is primarily mined in China - our clients are not there, and I’ll just leave it there. - Jo Lang, IBM Offering Leader, IBM Blockchain Financial Solutions  1 Ripple XRP from an ownership standpoint is opaque. While we have done work with Ripple and will continue to do so...we did not know how we could go without having an asset that is transparent. - Jo Lang  1 Stellar IBM ended up selecting Stellar for 5 reasons: 1) its non-profit status, 2) scalability, 3) team, 4) token ownership transparency, and 5) ability to support any asset type. 1. Non-Profit Status Lumens are managed by a non-profit. All of the ownership is public and transparent. To us, particularly going to bunches of ba...

Stellar and Ripple (XLM and XRP, respectively) were both founded by Jed McCaleb, but they each take a very different approach to solving the problem of slow, expensive payments. It’s important to note that the below differences are not meant to imply that one is better than the other. You can decide for yourself if you prefer inflation vs deflation, non-profit vs for-profit, etc. Inflation Ripple’s transaction fees serve as a burning mechanism for XRP. Once XRP is spent on a transaction, it disappears. This causes the supply of XRP to slowly deflate. Deflation causes people to be more likely to hold a currency instead of use it because the value of the asset slowly increases as supply decreases. Fees on the Stellar network are recycled back into circulation through the network’s  built-in inflation mechanism , which, on top of returning the recycled fees, inflates the number of lumens by 1% annually. Moderate inflation causes people to use a currency. Marketing to Retai...

Since October, IBM has been publicly building distributed ledger products on top of Stellar (XLM). Below, we piece together the disparate sources of information about the Stellar and IBM partnership to understand how the relationship works. Learn more about why IBM chose Stellar Lumens  here . Summary IBM provides financial institutions with enterprise-level, Stellar-based products for 1) validating the Stellar public network, 2) facilitating cross-border transactions with lumens (XLM) as the current bridge asset, and 3) issuing any asset on the Stellar network. Both IBM and  Lightyear  (SDF's for-profit arm) provide services to companies who want to operate on the Stellar network, but IBM serves larger, more risk-averse clients like banks and central banks, while Lightyear's clients are smaller entities like remittance companies. Overview Banks, central banks, money transfer operators, and financial institutions regularly outsource technology integrations to ...