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The post Franklin Templeton Backs XRP While Ripple CTO Explains Why Price Rising Is a Good Thing appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News David Schwartz has been making the same point since 2017, and most people still get it wrong. The Ripple CTO recently revisited a post he wrote years ago, addressing something that trips up a lot of XRP holders: the idea that a lower token price is better for payments. His answer was: It does not matter.  If XRP is a dollar, you need a million tokens to move a million dollars. If XRP is worth a million dollars, you need one. Same cost. Different efficiency. “The higher the price of XRP, the cheaper it is to use for payments,” he said. Fewer tokens per transaction means less liquidity tied up and a smoother settlement. Price going up does not make XRP harder to use. It actually makes it work better. .article-inside-link { margin-left: 0 !important; border: 1px solid #0052CC4D; border-left: 0; border-right: 0; padding: 10px 0; text-align: left; } .entry ul.article-inside-link li { font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-weight: 600; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0; display: inline-block; } .entry ul.article-inside-link li:last-child { display: none; } Also Read :   Wall Street Veteran Behind America’s First XRP ETF Says ‘XRP Community Is an Army,’ Says He’s Still Bullish   , Then Franklin Templeton Filed With the SEC While that old post was doing the rounds again, Franklin Templeton dropped something worth reading. Its latest 10-K filing shows XRP now sits at 5.91% of its EZPZ ETF, behind Bitcoin and Ethereum but ahead of most other altcoins. The fee angle is just as interesting. Franklin Templeton’s product costs roughly 94% less annually than Grayscale’s XRP trust. That kind of gap tends to move money over time. With XRP trading near $1.33,…

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