Ripple

Digital payment network

Ripple is a financial technology company and the name of its associated cryptocurrency platform and digital payment protocol, designed for fast international money transfers.

The native cryptocurrency is called XRP, though people often call it Ripple informally: Banks are testing Ripple for cross-border payments. (Lowercase ripple means small spreading waves.)

cryptocurrency

blockchain

Cryptographic linked transaction record

crypto · cryptocurrency · digital asset · ledger · decentralized

fintech

cross-border

Spanning national boundaries

banking · financial technology · liquidity · transaction

Categories
Opposites
surface movement/disturbance

Ripplestillness

Complete lack of motion

calm · smoothness · serene · placid · mirror-like

wave intensity/scale

Ripplewave

Oscillating motion through medium

surge · swell · breaker · tsunami · tidal wave

impact/effect magnitude

Rippleshockwave

Propagating pressure disturbance

tidal wave · earthquake · upheaval · cataclysm · explosion

Phrases
Family

rippling, rippled, ripples, ripply, ripple effect, unrippled

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Rated G