The cryptocurrency market is mostly in the green today, as it’s currently nearing its month-long high. Today, we’re looking at three coins that continue to surge: Ripple(XRP), Tron(TRX), and VeChain.
Source: CoinMarketCap[1]
All but five coins on the top 100 are seeing losses this morning, which is great news. There isn’t any major breaking news in the cryptocurrency space today, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Ripple (XRP)
Source: CoinMarketCap[2]
As you can see, XRP has been on a bit of a bull run this past week. A week ago, Santander announced their launch of Santander One Pay FX. This is the first app that uses Ripple technology for global payments.
Congrats @bancosantander for launching Santander One Pay FX, the first mobile app which uses @Ripple #xCurrent for global payments! https://t.co/1TyIUxdDY3[3][4][5][6]
— Marcus Treacher (@marcus_treacher) April 12, 2018[7]
Since then, XRP has been on a steady incline. As more and more businesses adopt Ripple’s cross-border blockchain technology, the more valuable XRP becomes. It seems major banks around the globe have been taking notice and getting on board with Ripple and Stellar’s tech – I feel this is just the beginning.
At press time, XRP is trading at $0.734 a coin, up 7.74%, in 24 hours.
Tron (TRX)
A few days ago, the Tron Foundation announced the details of their programming contest. The contest’s total prize pool is $1 million worth of TRX, and they’ve started taking applications already. The Tron main net is exactly six weeks away, and it’s full steam ahead for the team.
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