Ripple Seals Major Partnership With Canada’s Biggest University to Launch XRP Ledger Validator

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XRP Validator Operates Out of Former Nuclear Bunker in Sweden

“As part of our commitment to ensure the long-term health and stability of the XRP Ledger, Towo Labs is now operating a validator from Pionen White Mountains, a former nuclear bunker 30 meters beneath the streets of Stockholm, Sweden,” the XRP developer tweeted.

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XRP Ledger Validator Reveals It Utilizes Former Nuclear Bunker

Towo Labs, the software team behind the XRP Toolkit and development partner of Flare blockchain, disclosed its most unusual validator

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CoinField becomes Ripple’s verified validator; hints at upcoming XRPL project

CoinField, the digital currency trading platform, made news after it was announced that its XRP Validator is now officially part of the leading blockchain firm Ripple’s Unique Node List [UNL] trusted list.

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Crypto Exchange CoinField Launches XRP Validator, Teases New Ecosystem

Cryptocurrency exchange CoinField launches an XRP validator that is already included in Ripple’s Unique Node List, teases a new mysterious project

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Ripple’s validator drama continues as community members huddle up to find an alternative

Ripple is very closely related to XRP, something which is a well-known fact. There is a blurred line between Ripple and XRP for some people; but for supporters, there is a clear demarcation. However, XRP network also relies strongly on Ripple running validators and in recent days, some XRP community members have brought up hypothetical […] The post Ripple’s validator drama continues as community members huddle up to find an alternative appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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XRP community celebrates as developer creates new tool to incentivize validators

XRP ledger node validators, who determine whether transactions meet protocol requirements, have been a hotbed of discussion for a long time now. Bitrue, Coingate, and Bitstamp are some of the crypto-exchanges that run XRP validators.

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On Campus: University of Kansas Emphasizes Interdisciplinary Blockchain Study for Budding Entrepreneurs

This edition of On Campus provides us with a fascinating look at how the University of Kansas (KU) blends academia and blockchain in many compelling and sometimes unexpected ways as part of Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

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XRP Can Now be Used at 4,500 e-Stores Worldwide as CoinGate Adds New Payment Option

CoinSpeaker XRP Can Now be Used at 4,500 e-Stores Worldwide as CoinGate Adds New Payment Option Unlike cryptos added to CoinGate’s listing earlier, XRP is not logged on the blockchain, as CoinGate launched an XRP ledger validator to “further accelerate the decentralization of the $XRP network".

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Is XRP Really More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of San Francisco based startup Ripple, has focused a lot of his efforts in the past to defend the cryptocurrency his company made, XRP. Many critics pointed out in the past that XRP is a heavily centralized cryptocurrency, mostly due to the way its validator network is structured and due to […] The post Is XRP Really More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Introducing XRP Ledger (rippled) version 1.1.2

XRP Ledger (rippled) version 1. 1. 2 is now available. The XRP Ledger version 1. 1. 2 release includes a fix for a technical issue in the consensus “preferred ledger by branch” code, which could cause a validator to fail to settle on a single preferred branch of unconfirmed ledger history.

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Data443 Becomes New Ripple XRP Ledger Unique Node List Validator

Data433 Becomes the Recommended Validator After Extending Significant Lead for Enterprise Data433, one the leading data security and discretion firms declared that it has been added to the default XRP ledger bionetwork’s Unique Node List (UNL).

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Ripple Are One Step Closer To Decentralising XRP

One of the big issues surrounding XRP is decentralisation. This is because Ripple, as a company own an awful lot of XRP, and also, until recently, operated the majority of the validator nodes on the XRP blockchain.

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Continued Decentralization & the XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol

In May of 2017, Ripple announced its preliminary strategy to increase decentralization and ensure that no single entity has operational control of the XRP Ledger. Our last update, in October, laid out the details of our two phase plan.

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rippled Version 0.81.0

Ripple has released rippled version 0. 81. 0, which introduces changes that improve the scalability of the XRP Ledger and transitions the recommended validator configuration to a new hosted site, as described in Ripple’s Decentralization Strategy Update post.

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