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Ripple announces further support with expansion of the XRP ledger
Ripple’s XRP Ledger has expanded to 55 validator nodes, an increase of 120% since May. These new validators include WorldLink, Telindus-Proximus Group, Bahnhof (Swedish ISP) and AT TOKYO Corporation.
The Asset 20 Jul 2017

Ripple’s XRP Ledger has expanded to 55 validator nodes, an increase of 120% since May. These new validators include WorldLink, Telindus-Proximus Group, Bahnhof (Swedish ISP) and AT TOKYO Corporation, and join a growing network of leading companies and organizations currently validating transactions on the XRP Ledger, including Microsoft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and CGI.

Ripple say that their strategy is to make the XRP Ledger more decentralized and that they are committed to continued diversification and decentralization of the XRP Ledger validator ecosystem to further increase its resiliency and robustness.

Mathew Pulickel, senior vice president, emerging technology at WorldLink, says, “We believe Ripple’s network will revolutionize commerce in the future and the way our customers do business, and that’s why we have chosen to run a validator node on the XRP Ledger. In the same way that communication and document sharing dramatically improved with email, Ripple and the digital asset XRP will have an equally impactful effect on the time and cost associated with cross-border payments.”

Ripple say they also plan to add two third-party validators to the XRP Ledger’s Unique Node Lists (UNLs) in the coming months. UNLs are an important subset of trusted nodes that can validate transactions, vote on protocol changes via amendments and modify fees on ledger.

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