Stellar (XLM) razmišlja o nakupu nekdanjega partnerja Ripple MoneyGram

Glede na Bloomberg, o Stellar Development Foundation, together with private equity firm Advent International, have expressed interest in a takeover of MoneyGram International Inc.

Stellar in MoneyGram, tekma, narejena v nebesih?

MoneyGram is a Nasdaq-listed wire transfer company that was originally formed in 1940. Its global money service extends to every (populated) continent. The firm has carved out a reputation for fast, reliable, and reasonably priced money transfer services.

Although the firm deals primarily with fiat money, it has flirted with cryptocurrency in the past. First, in leveraging Ripple’s xRapid cross-border liquidity solution in 2019, which later fizzled out. And more recently, partnering with ATM firm CoinMe to provide Bitcoin ramping solutions.

Glede na to, da se je Stellar julija 2014 lansiral kot rezultat trdega forka iz protokola Ripple, se pogosto naredijo primerjave med njima.

Vendar pa Stellar soustanovitelj Jed McCaleb poudarja, da so bile bistveno spremenjene kodekse konsenza, zaradi česar so postali popolnoma drugačni proizvodi.

O Protokol zvezdnega soglasja is described as a “federated Byzantine agreement system” enabling decentralized, leaderless computing networks to reach a consensus.

A Bizantinsko agreement system is tolerant of “Byzantine” faults, which refers to nodes that give false information. This may be due to error or even a deliberate system attack. Either way, this method enables a network to continue operating even if some of the nodes fail or act maliciously.

Ker Ripple’s consensus mechanism relies on voting, with more than 80% of nodes agreeing to each transaction before it forms a ledger entry.

Stellar aims to empower everyday people by creating fair access to the global financial system. Unlike Ripple, which tends to focus on banks and financial institutions.

"SDF in Stellar skušata sprostiti svetovni gospodarski potencial tako, da denar ustvarjata bolj tekoče, trgi so bolj odprti in ljudje bolj močni."

Čeprav obstajajo očitni komplementarni vidiki med Stellarjem in MoneyGramom, prevzem trenutno ni potrjen. Bloomberg pravi, da bi se Stellar in Advent lahko odločil, da se odpove.

MoneyGram in Ripple se delita

V 2019, Ripple bought a $30 million stake in MoneyGram. The deal also meant MoneyGram would use Ripple products for cross-border payment solutions and foreign exchange settlement.

Vendar sta se marca letos, ko sta Ripplejeva domnevna kršitev zakona o vrednostnih papirjih začutila vročino regulatorjev, razšla, predsednik uprave Ripple Brad Garlinghouse rekel, da se je zavezal k ponovnemu obisku partnerstva v prihodnosti.

Tokrat je bilo za Ripple težko obdobje, saj so številni ključni partnerji skakali na ladjo, da bi se izognili ujetju v tožbi SEC.

Čeprav primer SEC proti Rippleu še vedno traja, je pravna ekipa Ripplea prepričljivo izpodbijala obtožbe. Tako zelo Forbes nagovoril s člankom z naslovom "V primeru valovanja je SEC zdaj na preizkušnji - in to ve."

V vsakem primeru, ko Stellar zdaj kroži okoli MoneyGrama, je morda Ripple to zvezo za vedno izgubil.

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Vir: https://cryptoslate.com/stellar-xlm-considers-buying-ex-ripple-partner-moneygram/