On the 10th of August, Ethereum World News ran a story as to why the XRP community wanted their favorite coin added as a base currency on Binance. One twitter user – @C3_Nik – specifically requested Biannce CEO, Changpeng Zao via the following words:
We would like to see
#XRP as one of the base assets on@Binance in order to move value much more quickly! Please do it@cz_binance ! Let’s get some retweets to let them know.
The following reasons were the basis of the XRP community requesting the Binance CEO to facilitate the addition of XRP as a base currency:
- It would help Binance for it is faster (3.3 seconds) and cheaper
- A base currency of XRP would bring in more users to the exchange
- XRP is the fastest digital asset to transfer funds between exchanges
- Other exchanges are continually warming up to XRP as a base currency
- XRP would attract the big money movers – also known as whales – who’d increase the trade volume of the exchange: a win-win situation
- It is the natural and progressive thing to do given the popularity of XRP
It is with this background that the Weiss Rating firm has reiterated the request to have Binance add XRP as a base currency on the exchange. Weiss Rating tweeted the following in support of the idea:
We think that the #XRP is the fastest digital asset to transfer funds between exchanges. It only makes sense for #Binance to use it as the base #currency – why should one have to go through an intermediary currency to trade? #crypto #btc #altcoins
— Weiss Crypto Ratings (@WeissCrypto) August 10, 2018
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