Ethereum and XRP Are Facing Off in This 1 Key Segment. Which Will Win?
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) are both leading blockchains, but beyond that they don't seem to have too much in common. Whereas Ethereum is a nexus for decentralized finance (DeFi), the XRP ledger (XRPL) is the opposite, with many platforms and features intended to attract institutional capital from traditional financial players and payment processors.There is one emerging area where these two chains overlap, however. That segment could be worth trillions of dollars within the next decade. So which of these chains will win, and which is the better option for investors seeking to get exposure to the megatrend in question? Let's start by clarifying the domain of competition.XRP and Ethereum are digital assets that live on blockchains and are managed via self-custody digital wallets and accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges. Your house, car, and stock portfolio are, for the purposes of this conversation, real-world assets (or RWAs for short) that probably aren't on any blockchain. But if you wanted to put some of those assets onto a blockchain so that you could track and trade them more efficiently than you can currently, you'd need to tokenize them, which is to say, turn them into a crypto token that bears the rights to ownership.Continue reading
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) are both leading blockchains, but beyond that they don't seem to have too much in common. Whereas Ethereum is a nexus for decentralized finance (DeFi), the XRP ledger (XRPL) is the opposite, with many platforms and features intended to attract institutional capital from traditional financial players and payment processors.
There is one emerging area where these two chains overlap, however. That segment could be worth trillions of dollars within the next decade. So which of these chains will win, and which is the better option for investors seeking to get exposure to the megatrend in question? Let's start by clarifying the domain of competition.
XRP and Ethereum are digital assets that live on blockchains and are managed via self-custody digital wallets and accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges. Your house, car, and stock portfolio are, for the purposes of this conversation, real-world assets (or RWAs for short) that probably aren't on any blockchain. But if you wanted to put some of those assets onto a blockchain so that you could track and trade them more efficiently than you can currently, you'd need to tokenize them, which is to say, turn them into a crypto token that bears the rights to ownership.
