Ripple has made its first move towards building decentralized finance products based on XRP. With its acquisition of decentralized payments platform Logos Network, Ripple's investment arm, Xpring, will add nine New York-based engineers.
Logos founder and CEO Michael Zochowski will become Xpring's "Head of DeFi Products." Xpring did not disclose the price of the deal.
Logos was working to build a payments network inspired by the bitcoin blockchain, with a focus on a scalable, rapid network that still maintains high levels of security.
The Logos acqui-hires will now help Ripple build XRP derivatives, loans, futures and forwards, said Ethan Beard, senior vice president of Xpring.
"We've made investments in DeFi companies in the past. We invested in Securitize and Dharma, but it's now an area where we're building."
Part of Xpring's focus is to identify use-cases outside of the company's payments network, RippleNet, to build a network of companies around XRP. So far, the company has committed $500 million to 20 companies, including both equity investments and XRP grants, like the $265 million deal brokered with content platform Coil.
With the Logos acquisition, Xpring now has a team of 32 employees, having grown from a team of just two last May. Beard hopes the same financial institutions that take advantage of RippleNet to achieve real-time payments and real-time fiat settlements will be interested in XRP-based DeFi products.
"It didn't take long after the first creation of fiat for someone to go to a person who had some and say, 'Hey, can I borrow that?'".
Ripple's Xpring Looks to Build XRP DeFi Products With New Acquisition
gepubliceerd op Sep 27, 2019
by Coindesk | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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