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Ripple and XRP are different. XRP is the cryptocurrency on the XRPL (XRP Ledger), and Ripple is a company. XRP is a very special cryptocurrency focusing its efforts on establishing a new global financial infrastructure through Ripple.
Using Ripple, users are transacting commodities, currencies, and other values in a seamless manner. Ripple Protocol has been called the “HTTP for Money.”
Investors use Ripple and XRP interchangeably to point to the cryptocurrency. In addition, several banks and institutions use cryptocurrency from across the world. Ripple facilitates the payments solutions technology that makes use of the cryptocurrency in its fintech services and solutions.
The Ripple system makes it possible for money to be transferred in any form the user prefers. It permits transactions in US dollar, Euro, Yen, Pound, Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, or the XRP. In addition, the open-source nature of its technology makes it easy to integrate into several other existing financial infrastructures and protocols.
The ease of integration of the technology is advantageous to the community of XRP and Ripple users. Ripple and its partners work in a close system of trust between them. They have established credit and debit lines in the process.
Anyone willing to send his money across the borders and beyond the boundaries of their own country can log in to the Ripple Gateway, deposit their value, and send instructions for their funds as to who will be the receiver. The receiver will get the funds by logging on to their preferred receiver. In this process of value transfer, the transfers are not limited to just money.
For as long as payment gateways can process them cryptocurrencies can be sent. If there are gateways that are willing to perform transactions for gold and other precious metals, those transactions can also be conducted.
In the Ripple transaction process, the transaction happens because of the “direct trust relationship established between the agents using the Ripple technology.”
When a sender is looking to establish a transaction, the Ripple algorithm will try to find out a chain or intermediary gateway which is willing to serve as a channel of value transfer from their ecosystem of partners. Then, the Algorithm will identify the shortest and quickest link between their gateways to process the transactions.
There will be times when Ripple cannot identify a channel that can transfer their payment instruction to the desired receiver. At this point, XRP comes to the rescue. The sender can convert their value into XRP and send it through the chain to the receiver. The receiver can, in turn, alter the XRP back to fiat.
