Going forward, Liang hopes to bolster his founding team by partnering with companies and individuals that could help create those liquidity pools by granting them access to various crypto assets, as well as bringing in software providers to help connect
with existing financial infrastructure providers.
Due to the nature of these principles and how they interact
within existing financial infrastructure, changing legacy infrastructure by integrating a blockchain that does not comply with these principles is far more time consuming and costly.
Moreover, the fact that the authorities would be more comfortable with the likes of Ripple XRP rather than a digital currency like Bitcoin which aims to disrupt
the existing financial infrastructure; is something which would make XRP more attractive to investors.
Existing financial infrastructure is a fragmented collection of partial information spread across siloed data stores.
The milestone signifies a major development for the financial infrastructure provider, one that also marks a continuation of the largest effort yet to adapt
an existing financial infrastructure to a blockchain.