2014

Posted 2014-12-18

Turn your exchange into a Ripple Gateway

Throughout 2014 we've talked to businesses all over the world, both big and small, who are interested in tapping into Ripple's increasing liquidity and settlement capabilities. For exchanges dealing in bitcoins and other assets, the value proposition is clear - deeper orderbooks and the ability for customers to hop between different assets instantly is a major boon to their service. The natural follow-up question is how to get started.

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Posted 2014-12-07 to

Why the Stellar Forking Issue Does Not Affect Ripple

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) which maintains Stellar, a network built on a modified version of the Ripple code base, recently published a post claiming flaws in the Ripple consensus algorithm. We take any reports about possible security issues very seriously and after reviewing the information conclude that there is no threat to the continued operation of the Ripple network. We'd like to share our thoughts.

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Posted 2014-12-03

Release Notes (3 December 2014)

Curated release notes will be posted on this blog and will include updates from every active project. Specifically we will post and link to any new release notes, open bounties, and upcoming features.

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Posted 2014-11-04

ripple-rest 1.3 release

Last Friday we did a master release of ripple-rest version 1.3.0. We’ve done a few changes externally but the substantial additions in 1.3.0 have been stability and verbose error handling. If you’ve been following the commits on github, we’ve also vastly improved test coverage and introduced simplicity by removing the need for Postgres.

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Posted 2014-10-22 to

Gateway Advisory On Partial Payment Flag

Ripple Labs has issued a Gateway Bulletin on the Partial Payment flag which describes the flag and best practices around balancing activity on and off the ledger. The tfPartialPayment flag is set by the sender to specify a payment where the beneficiary can receive less than the specified amount.

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Posted 2014-09-03

Biweekly Release Notes (3 September 2014)

A few days tardy, but better late than never... Curated release notes will be posted on this blog and will include updates from every active project. Specifically we will post and link to any new release notes, open bounties, and upcoming features. We hope you find these useful! Please let us know if you have feedback in the comments.

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Posted 2014-08-19 to

Use of C++14 in rippled

Posted by Howard Hinnant

C++ is a language under constant development, resulting in alternating minor and major releases. The last major release of C++ was C++11. A minor release has just been approved by all participating national bodies (zero negative votes). This will be C++14. C++17 is the next planned major release and is currently under development by the committee.

Rippled has already adopted a number of useful C++14 features. We’ve done this through the development environment where native support is available, or by emulating the features through providing compatible implementations using our beast cxx14 compatibility library ( https://github.com/ripple/rippled/tree/develop/src/beast/beast/cxx14).

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Posted 2014-08-14 to

Biweekly Release Notes (14 August 2014)

Release notes are part of a larger overhaul of our developer resources, which we are continually adding to. Curated release notes will be posted on this blog and will include updates from every active project. Specifically we will post and link to any new release notes, open bounties, and upcoming features. We hope you find these useful! Please let us know if you have feedback in the comments.

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Posted 2014-08-01

Dev Portal Adds rippled APIs

By Rome Reginelli, technical writer

Today, the Ripple Dev Portal gets a big boost of content and usability. The new additions to our development portal include thorough and tested documentation of all the public API methods for our core server software, ‘rippled’, alongside a host of improvements in styling and formatting, as well as new introductory material to give you direction in navigating the sea of Ripple technology.

This update brings very crucial content into the fold of documentation that's thorough, complete, and software-tested. Today, you can access full specs and usage information for all 20+ public methods in the rippled WebSocket API.

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Posted 2014-07-28

XRP Giveaway for Developers

Ripple Labs has partnered with Assembla to send qualified developers 1,000 XRP to their Ripple Trade account. To apply for this giveaway please fill out and submit the application form. If you’re interested in developing on Ripple please check out the Primer for a high level overview. From there you can dive into different layers of the Ripple ecosystem.

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Posted 2014-06-26 to

Curves with a Twist

Ripple Labs is considering the addition of a new elliptic curve implementation to the Ripple protocol to complement the existing cryptographic system. The addition of a Schnorr-based cryptosystem will produce more optimal and secure design schemes and provides a platform for robust and sophisticated functionality while preserving existing network structure and efficiency.

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Posted 2014-04-28 to

Introducing Ripple Names

Ripple names work in conjunction with Ripple addresses as a destination to receive funds, as an identifier for the sender, and as a handle to set trustlines.

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