Bank of America has filed for a patent for a settlement system citing the Ripple ledger, according to a filing on Google Patents.
The
patent in question — the application of which was published on June 6 —
describes a system using distributed ledger technology (DLT) as an
interbank communication tool. The proposed system would enable real-time
settlement with transactions being communicated through a shared,
decentralized ledger to which both the banks would have access.
The
decentralized network would both verify the identity of the payer and
the payee and enable communication between the institutions. Notably,
multiple illustrations included in the patent explicitly cite Ripple
DLT. Ripple’s base asset and proposed settlement gateway asset XRP is not mentioned in the patent.
In June, news broke
that Siam Commercial Bank, Thailand’s largest commercial bank, denied
any plans to start using Ripple’s XRP token, contrary to earlier
indications. The denial came after the bank tweeted that an “XRP system
will be announced soon” on June 5.
As Cointelegraph reported
earlier this month, Ripple incubator and investment arm Xpring has
distributed $500 million to over 20 XRP projects — including the
blockchain-based gaming platform Forte — since its launch in May 2018.
The aim of the incubator is to fund the development of use cases for
Ripple’s XRP token.
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