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Ripple Labs at Sibos 2014

Ripple Labs EVP of Business Development Patrick Griffin at Sibos 2013 in Dubai Ripple Labs will be in Boston at the end of the month for Sibos (Sept. 29 – Oct. 2), the annual financial services conference hosted by SWIFT, where 7000 industry members and thought leaders will gather to contemplate and help shape the […]

How Ripple Labs supports gateways

To help accelerate the creation of strong, reliable, and compliant gateways, Ripple Labs will be providing XRP incentives and extended technical support for gateways that meet criteria considered to be critical for the success of a gateway. Ripple Labs wants every gateway to achieve a gold standard in business planning, technical reliability and stability, regulatory […]

Ripple Labs Signs First Two US Banks

Ripple Labs is thrilled to have signed its first two U.S. banks to use the Ripple protocol for real-time, cross-border payments. Cross River Bank, an independent transaction bank based in New Jersey, and CBW Bank, a century-old institution founded in Kansas, join Fidor Bank on the Ripple network, which continues to grow. Both banks are […]

Gateway Advisory On Partial Payment Flag

Ripple Labs has issued a Gateway Bulletin on the Partial Payment flag which describes the flag and best practices around balancing activity on and off the ledger. The tfPartialPayment flag is set by the sender to specify a payment where the beneficiary can receive less than the specified amount. Gateways are encouraged to implement best […]

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Ripple Labs at Money2020 2014

Chris Larsen (Co-founder and CEO) and Greg Kidd (Chief Risk Officer)—imagery courtesy of Money2020 In less than two weeks, Ripple Labs will be joining thousands of industry and thought leaders at Money20/20 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Of the 7,000+ attendees, there will be “670 CEOs, from over 2,300 companies and 60 countries.” The team is […]

ripple-rest 1.3 release

Last Friday we did a master release of ripple-rest version 1.3.0. We’ve done a few changes externally but the substantial additions in 1.3.0 have been stability and verbose error handling. If you’ve been following the commits on [github](https://github.com/ripple/ripple-rest), we’ve also vastly improved test coverage and introduced simplicity by removing the need for Postgres.   Below […]

Event Recap: Around the World in 5 Seconds

Nearly 300 Ripple enthusiasts attended Around the World in 5 Seconds. Despite pouring rain, nearly three hundred guests attended Around the World in 5 Seconds, a special night of demos and celebration at the Ripple Labs office in downtown San Francisco, an event meant to engage the local community and share our vision of Ripple’s potential. […]

Light Clients and Proof of Stake

Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Jae Kwon for many of the ideas described in this post Aside from the primary debate around weak subjectivity, one of the important secondary arguments raised against proof of stake is the issue that proof of stake algorithms are much harder to make light-client friendly. Whereas proof of work […]

Ripple Labs Tech Talk: An Introduction to Codius

Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas and software engineer Evan Schwartz present Codius. As part of an ongoing initiative to better educate the broader community about Ripple technology, behind the scenes developments, as well as our take on the industry at large, Ripple Labs will be releasing a series a tech talks, the first of which […]