China is building smart cities on the blockchain

JD finance, the financial subsidiary of a Chinese e-commerce company, JD.com, offers financial services to individuals and businesses. The fintech arm of JD.com, that deals mainly in financing loans, asset management, payment solutions, and crowdfunding, has opened a smart city research institute in Nanjing. By using blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and big data, JD.com aims to ease the construction of a smart city with its latest research institute established at its headquarters.

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Ripple Officially Launches xRapid

xRapid Now fully Available for Commercial Use as Announced by Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse at the Ripple Swell 2018 conference in San Francisco.

Garlinghouse also made known that three financial firms are already set to first utilize this crypto product, Mercury FX , Cuallix, and cooperative financial firm Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union.

xRapid is Ripple’s product that will allow financial institutions to easily send cross-border transactions instantly with very cheap fees when compared to other traditional ways of transaction formats.

This Integration is the first time XRP is fully going out to the global market for widespread commercial use by financial institutions and is a huge development that will definitely take the crypto sphere for massive adoption and Part of financial Mainstream