SWIFT Blockchain Pilot With 17 Banks Puts XRP Ledger Back in Focus
The post SWIFT Blockchain Pilot With 17 Banks Puts XRP Ledger Back in Focus appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. XRP News SWIFT has built a blockchain-based ledger to test cross-border payments settled in tokenized bank deposits, a development that immediately revived comparisons with XRP Ledger, the public network behind XRP. The messaging cooperative said the ledger was developed over roughly nine months and is now ready for bank testing, pairing distributed-ledger technology with its existing secure messaging rails. Seventeen global banks are taking part in the pilot. SWIFT frames the design around round-the-clock settlement, more efficient liquidity use and clearer cash-flow visibility. For an altcoin long marketed as institutional payment infrastructure, the move reopened a debate that has followed XRP for years. Crucially, the SWIFT pilot does not run on XRP Ledger. The initiative is a bank-controlled test environment rather than a live public chain, and reported details name par