Price of Ripple’s cryptocurrency is now live NASDAQ’s website. NASDAQ is the world’s second-biggest stock exchange after the New York Stock Exchange. Crypto community has welcomed the stock exchange’s decision to list XRP on its website. Back in April, the exchange confirmed that they would add XRP on their website.
NASDAQ has added the Ripple’s XRP just a few weeks after Bakkt announced its launch date. XRP’s price index went live on new NASDAQ’s website on 16th August. The American stock exchange announced that they listed the price of XRP with the collaboration of Brave New Coin, a New Zealand-based blockchain data and research firm. Many from the crypto industry believe that launching of Bakkt and NASDAQ supporting XRP can prove to be major steps towards widespread adoption of the cryptocurrency.
“Cryptocurrencies should be regulated like any other financial institutions,” says Michael Pompeo
U.S Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in an interview to CNBC said that the crypto industry should be regulated like any other financial institution. Advisor to Donald Trump, Pompeo when asked about how to regulate bitcoin and Libra he replied that all cryptocurrencies are monies moving through markets and same rules that apply to transactions “flowing through SWIFT or flowing through our financial institutions should apply to those transactions as well. However, he acknowledged that it would not be easy to put them in the same category.
