Ripple thinks its newly acquired prime brokerage, Hidden Highway, will enhance confidence in its tiny stablecoin, RLUSD. The $1.2 billion money, fairness, and XRP token deal is quadruple the worth of RLUSD’s market capitalization.
In contrast to the $1-pegged RLUSD, the worth of XRP is meant to rally in response to optimistic developments.
Sadly, XRP has declined in worth as we speak since CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s morning announcement of the corporate’s costliest acquisition ever.
Value of XRP since Brad Garlinghouse’s 8:06am NYC time zone tweet.
In accordance with Garlinghouse, Hidden Highway will use Ripple’s RLUSD as collateral whereas prime brokering, “including cross-asset (crypto and traditional instrument) trades.”
Why Hidden Highway couldn’t merely use one other stablecoin to serve the identical goal wasn’t clear from the press launch.
‘Efficient cross-margining’ regardless of many different marginable stablecoins
In accordance with Ripple, RLUSD is one way or the other “the first stablecoin to enable efficient cross-margining between the digital asset space and traditional markets,” regardless of a few years of stablecoin-based margin throughout digital and conventional property.
Certainly, a wide range of stablecoins are eminently marginable and have denominated leveraged contracts for a wide range of conventional property for years.
CoinMarketCap discovered lower than $50 million price of quantity traded on RLUSD up to now 24 hours. CoinGecko discovered lower than $7 million.
Each of these estimates examine to greater than $80 billion for RLUSD’s largest competitor, USDT, over the identical interval.
RLUSD’s market capitalization as we speak is lower than 0.04% of the stablecoin business.
