Evernode is a layer-2 smart contract network proposed by Scott Chamberlain and Richard Holland. Chamberlain is an entrepreneurial fellow at the Australian National University College of Law (ANU), a recipient of a grant by Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative. Using the funding from Ripple, ANU launched courses exploring legal issues with the application of smart
XUMM seems set to launch integrated fiat on and off-ramps. XUMM is a non-custodial XRP wallet. It also features native access to tokens and web apps called xApps. The pro version has an optional KYC process native to the XUMM app. XUMM’s support documentation indicated that this KYC process was for a yet-to-be-implemented fiat on/off-ramp.
RippleX software engineer Mayukha Vadari hinted that Ripple was working on Ethereum Virtual Machine powered sidechains during a recent Ripple Drop episode: “We’re also working on EVM-based sidechains that will allow people to basically use solidity smart contracts but still within the XRP ledger ecosystem.” “We’re working on adding support for sidechains to the XRP
Popular payment provider MoneyGram filed an unopposed motion to seal a few lines from a deposition transcript of a MoneyGram Officer filed during the Ripple v. SEC lawsuit. The payment giant argues that the deposition contains highly confidential business information and, as such, the court should move to protect the privacy interests of innocent third
VerseX is an XRPL-powered Metaverse shopping, social, and gaming platform. It features a virtual-reality mall and integrated play-to-earn activities. The platform has two main tokens. $XVR is the platform’s native currency and governance token. And $XMEN (which definitely won’t ruffle feathers at Marvel) is the platform’s early investor token. Despite my repeated insistence on Twitter,
ZerpCraft is an XRPL-powered gaming project and RippleX development grantee, which allows Minecraft server administrators the ability to mint property NFTs and monetize land in their game worlds. “After the launch of XLS-20, the ZerpCraft plugin will be made open source allowing any Minecraft server administrator the ability to mint ZerpCraft NFTs and monetize their
American oversight committees are interesting expressions of state power. The committee room is filled with rows of seats cascading upwards with the representatives seated at the highest point and the subject, in this case, the Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, Gurbir Grewal, placed far beneath them so that he must constantly look upwards
NFT projects have increasingly latched on to the nebulous concept of the metaverse to justify expansive token monetization efforts. But what exactly is the metaverse? Vice described it as a 3D model of the internet — a virtual reality powered digital world operating in parallel to the physical one. The Facebook metaverse project, Horizon Worlds,
On April 12, 2022, Forbes published a Ripple and XRP article in their Advisor section. Forbes Advisor is advertised as providing relevant financial coverage to allow readers to “make the most of their money.” I haven’t seen a cryptocurrency article this poorly researched from a mainstream publication in a long time. If all of the articles on
Shortly after the SEC’s enforcement action, I replied to a tweet by a popular XRP community YouTube personality Alex Cobb where he alleged nefarious motives by SEC officials. In my reply, I stated that it would probably be hard to find regulatory officials without any affiliation to the industries they were tasked with regulating. Whenever
