By design, solutions are tailored specifically for
financial institutions and global banks. However, and gauging from their recent
developments, the global payment platform is changing tact. Days after
announcing their partnership with Forte and dedicating $100 million to promote
and grow based gaming, —the
company founded by Wieste Wind—the innovative and tireless co-founder who
recently had the backing of Xpring– has successfully integrate XRP in
WooCommerce.
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This is massive for XRP and . It is easy to see why. XRP as
a currency is inherently fast, secure and global meaning settlements are done
instantaneously. Similarly, WooCommerce is global and as the first open source
e-commerce plugin for small and medium sized online stores, the platform is
attractive powering 3.3 million online users across the globe translating to 28
percent of all online stores.
XRPL Labs–through Wind and two of the lab’s co-founders are working overtime to create XRP use cases and part of increasing is by creating an ecosystem around use of the InterLedger Protocol (ILP) and XRP Ledger, a job they have been largely successful in.
What XRP Brings on Board
It is true that bear their advantages and part of their attractiveness stem from their global and decentralized nature. Because of this, the network has no downtime and users can pay using the currency anywhere in the world without worries of FX fluctuations. As digital assets, integration in global platforms with widespread use is a step in the right direction.
Without a doubt, the sudden exposure of XRP to around 3.3
million stores whose owners are keen of settling faster and securely with
minimum expense is a perfect for users. This would spur and more is
expected in the future now that the world is transitioning from analogue
systems and embracing digital payment forcing the US Fed to upgrade their
systems as end users demand more fluidity and high reliability.
Ecommerce Sales Projected at $4.8 Trillion by 2021
In 2017, global sales from e-commerce platforms amounted to
$2.3 trillion but that amount is expected to double to $4.88 trillion by 2021
according .
With expressing freedom, an opportunity in e-commerce can be
tremendous in that users would execute their businesses globally thanks to
enablers as WooCommerce. Even if WooCommerce is a facilitator, it is
increasingly clear that the acceptance of XRP in this open source plugin will
further boost levels thereby drawing demand for the third most
valuable currency.
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Apart from this milestone, Wietse’s team are working on a
DEX similar to what DEX, a 100 percent air-gapped cold storage and a
signing platform that enable direct interaction with the XRP Ledger.
Published at Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:09:54 +0000
