💹 Ripple&Thunes: 7 Billion Wallets, No Time for Tea Today!

Oh well hello there, greetings and salutations! Did you hear the latest in the financial gossip? Ripple and Thunes have apparently decided to seal the deal that will make hanging onto your cash while it crosses borders as exciting as watching paint dry-only faster! On Tuesday, September 2-ish, they announced that they’re giving their partnership a little facelift, because those old walls were just crying out for some reinvention. Go figure!

A Power Couple: Thunes and Ripple Say ‘I Do’ to 7 Billion Wallets

Thunes, whose latest Valentine’s gift to humanity is a “Smart Superhighway” allowing money to jet around the globe like it’s braving the currents of the Amazon, is now bolting blockchain and digital expansion rails onto their already magnificent Direct Global Network. Once upon a time, these things needed miracle workers called banks-which, let’s face it, love to keep cash waiting just long enough to forget where you parked. These pioneering lovebirds, by unifying Thunes’ pipeline of wealth and Ripple’s fancy blockchain inclinations, expect the likes of banks, fintechs, and crypto-troubadours to have their funds whisked away at unprecedented speeds. And, they say, all within any rickety banking system you can imagine.

Gentlemen, start your engines! Ripple’s enterprise customers may now revel in withdrawing their funds-in, you guessed it, MORE CURRENCIES and JURISDICTIONS-flaunting that stylish last-mile delivery even in places where banking is more myth than reality.

And so, the tale of tech foretold by our duo mocks the status quo, promising a shiny, new upgrade by the numbers. Ripple claims its ever-so-glorious Payment product spiels across a navigationController worth of payout domains, covering an impressive “more than 90% of daily FX markets.” Touché! Meanwhile, Thunes is dutifully nodding its head, ensuring reliable, instantaneous payouts and lobbying Ripple for their SmartX Treasury System’s exponential growth.

“‘Members’-those are the polite terms-of both finance and digital assets like to hang out with Thunes,” chirped Chloe Mayenobe, President and COO of Thunes, as if to describe a blossoming teenage romance. “We’ve apparently got that matchmaking vibe down, bridging traditional troglodytes with digital pioneers. By aligning with Ripple, we double down on spreading the joy of seamless cross-border payments…to scale!” Cue triumphant burst of trumpets that no one asked for.

Fiona Murray, the CEO-of-sorts, and managing director of the Asia Pacific at Ripple, caught her chance to weigh in on this epic saga. “We’re all about transforming global payments via blockchain-yawn,” she said, remarkably calm given her mission to make global finances more efficient, swift, and secure. “Our old pals at Thunes are amplifying our ‘let’s speed things up’ mission through their super-trustworthy ‘Direct Global Network,’ ” Murray continued, clearly in favor of things that sound like rock bands more than finance terms.

But to all the hopeful, what’s in it for you? Why, Thunes says (with unyielding enthusiasm) that their Direct Global Network spans a sparkling 130 countries and 80-ish currencies, a fountainhead where over 7 billion mobile wallets quench their thirst and card enthusiasts rave with 15 billion cards. From super-apps to the trenches of mobile money services (talk about synergy!), everyone from energy-drinking gig economy veterans to the pop-icon fintechs is involved. Ripple, ever the influencer, brandishes their blockchain platform like a beacon of sexappeal, introducing enterprises to the allure of standardized compliance and liquid management.

Beyond digital dreams, these power couple definitely articulate those pesky niggles historically plaguing our cross-border adventures: snail-paced settlements, those devious, opaque fees, and the never-ending tango of local fund distributions. But fear not! Real-time gold passages, “deep local integrations,” and on/off-rampnics will soon be the new adjectives that define your cross-border escapades.

Although whispers of exciting new currency corridors or the enigmatic XRP token arose among the audience, they toyed with the suspense like it was some Sherlockian mystery. And as the curtain closes on this tale, XRP-sexy as always, let’s be real-performed at a humble $2.82.

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2025-09-03 11:14