Walgreen's announcement that it will send its workers to a private health insurance exchange to buy their own plans is a sign of the times that isn't going away.
I hope it goes without saying that Iâm incredibly pleased by the progress we have made to date - with a broad group of global FI customers. And there are powerful network effects that we have seen accelerating that momentum. - Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple. Source: Quora Session with Brad Garlinghouse, October 2017
Rippleâs emergence is also notable because, unlike other digital currencies on the list, it is not created by a decentralized mining process. Instead, Rippleâs currency supplyâtechnically known as XRPâwas created in one swoop, and a large portion is held by the company itself as a sort of treasury stock. As CEO Brad Garlinghouse explained to Fortune this summer, Ripple is able to use its XRP supply as a strategic asset while it builds out its business of supplying banks with a blockchain-based source of liquidity.