Ripple (XRP) meets cutting-edge climate tech via the new partnership with VivoPower. The company, officially listed on NASDAQ with the ticker VVPR, is planning to invest $5 million in exchange for an approximate 20% stake in K-Weather.
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K-Weather is one of the most popular weather apps in South Korea, providing their users with customized experience, tailored to their needs. Some of the advanced climate update features include fine dust information, as well as earthquakes based on exact location.
Now, the company is all set to launch their own token, dubbed as ‘WeatherCoin’.
XRP’s Chain To Host Multiple Decades Of Climate Knowledge
Per the official statement, Ripple’s XRP Ledger has been selected to guarantee a smooth launch, so WeatherCoin is going to run on XRP’s chain. While the initial market cap is unknown, K-Weather is reported to control 90% of the weather industry’s market share.
More intricate details will be released in December, as the parties are working out a complete deal agreement by the end of November. Via the newly-found VivoPower Federation division, XRP’s technical capabilities will lay the foundation for hosting this weather data service merger with blockchain technology.
Commenting on this, Kevin Chin, the Executive Chairman of VivoPower, explained XRP’s importance in the region: “South Korea is a strategically important market for Vivo Federation, given that the South Korean people are the largest holders of XRP by number and value in the world”.
Further on, the chairman told the press he was truly impressed by K-Weather’s “rich data set accumulated over many decades in relation to weather and air”, collecting this data information ever since the inception in 1997.
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