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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Why is XRP seeing a monster rally when Ripple is worth just $3B on the secondary market?

Ripple is reportedly trading at a $2 to $3 billion valuation but its XRP holdings are worth around $70 billion.

The equity of Ripple, the company that builds the infrastructure around XRP — the digital asset used by networks like RippleNet to process cross-border payments — is reportedly trading at $2 to $3 billion in the secondary market.

Yet, the XRP holdings of Ripple, are reportedly worth $70 billion, which is many times higher than the valuation of the firm's equity.

Michael Novogratz, the billionaire cryptocurrency investor and the CEO of Galaxy Digital, said:

"Ripple equity is ‘trading’ in secondary market at $2-3bn valuation. The $XRP on their balance sheet is worth approx $70bn. One price seems wrong. If $XRP price is saying settlement coming, the equity is crazy cheap. If not, the token seems expensive. Thoughts?:

So is XRP undervalued? Not exactly

According to Leonidas Hadjiloizou, a long-time cryptocurrency researcher, XRP that is locked in Ripple's balance sheet are in escrow are likely not priced into Ripple's equity.

As such, these holdings are not accessible until they start unlocking, which might not be priced in the value of the firm's equity.

He said:

"Well, $62 bn of the XRP in Ripple's balance sheet is locked in escrow. At the same time, Ripple's XRP sales are the ones under attack from the SEC so the market probably hasn't priced in Ripple's XRP holdings since they are in limbo right now."

In December 2017, the Ripple team explained that the XRP holdings in Ripple's escrow unlock by one billion XRP per month for 55 subsequent months.

The team said at the time:

"The escrow consists of independent on ledger escrows that release a total of one billion XRP each month over the next 55 months. This provides an upper limit on the amount of new XRP that can be brought into circulation. The amount of XRP actually released into circulation will likely be much less than this."

Theoretically, the value of Ripple's equity would be considered undervalued if the amount of XRP on the firm's balance sheet unlocks and the price of XRP does not drop.

The question on the discrepancy between the value of Ripple's equity and the amount of its XRP holdings started to emerge as the price of XRP started to rally above $1, despite an ongoing lawsuit with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

XRP/USD 1-day price chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView.com

Since April 1, the price of XRP rallied from $0.57 to as high as $1.49, by around 160%.

What is behind the XRP rally?

Throughout the past two weeks, the main catalysts for the 160% rally came from victories in the company's legal battle. Ripple lawyers were granted access to internal SEC discussion history regarding cryptocurrencies, and a court denied the SEC the ability to disclose the financial records of two Ripple execs, including CEO Brad Garlinghouse.  

Another reason may be the convergence trade between Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins, particularly as BTC sees sideways price action, allowing alternative cryptocurrencies to rally and catch up. 

Kelvin Koh, the managing partner at Spartan Group, one of the largest DeFi-focused funds in Asia, said that large quant funds try to trade the convergence between Bitcoin and major altcoins.

Hence, the trend of capital moving into altcoins and back into Bitcoin occurs periodically. Koh wrote:

"The reason this happens periodically is because there are a bunch of quant funds out there that play the convergence trade between $BTC and a handful of liquid alts. Whenever there alts look cheap relative to $BTC, they pile in. When they look expensive, they rotate back to $BTC. No fundamentals involved so don’t try too hard to rationalize the moves. This strategy has proven effective over time and there are enough managers playing this that it becomes self-fulfilling and keep recurring."
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