Important Ripple News and XRP Price Update: August 4th

The past few days saw Ripple expand its institutional infrastructure, while its native cryptocurrency XRP continued to defend the crucial $1 support region. Here are the most important news to follow. Ripple announced yet another expansion of its institutional digital asset strategy. In fact, the past seven days were rather packed with ecosystem updates. All of it happened as XRP traded near $1.07 following a few unsuccessful recovery attempts, but more on that later. Now, let’s dive into the most important and recent Ripple news. Ripple Invests in ZILO and Licuido Undoubtedly the week’s largest ecosystem development was Ripple’s investment in ZILO and Licuido – two companies building infrastructure for digital investment funds and trading of institutional assets. Ripple did not disclose the size of either of those investments. ZILO provides transfer agency and fund administration technology for tokenized share classes. It sounds fancy and tech, but the important part is that it fits well into Ripple’s plans to become the preferred international settlement layer for both retail and institutions. Conversely, Licuido operates a platform that supports the issuance, distribution, tradi...