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The founders of the Edge platform said they were expanding their platform to hold and trade ripple and monero due to a "strong demand" for the cyptocurrencies The wallet already supports bitcoin, bitcoin cash, dash, ethereum, litecoin, feathercoin, zcoin and now, the new additions monero and ripple. Edge also includes support for Segregated Witness (SegWit) transactions for both bitcoin and litecoin. Paul Puey, co-founder of the Edge platform, said: “We’ve listened closely to our community over the last few months and found a strong demand for these currencies on the Edge platform.

"Both communities are different but they face the same issue: how do we hold and use our currency? Edge is proud to announce that they can now find that option here.” The two newly supported cryptocurrencies offer very different uses. Monero is specially designed to use RingCT, an anonymous transaction log that hides that amount sent in a transaction. But it has attracted usage by people interested in evading law enforcement.

Meanwhile ripple, is seen as an efficient and non-illicit monetary vehicle, which has grown in popularity for its liquidity, speed and low transaction barriers. Mr Puey said: "While solutions exist to gain price exposure and invest in these currencies, there are no options that let users hold, send, receive, and trade these currencies from a secure wallet they control, with no custodian, and alongside a dozen other crypto assets. "This is all from the convenience of their mobile phone.” Edge’s partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Shapeshift will also allow users to exchange these cryptocurrencies for other assets such as bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, augur (REP), and various other ERC20 tokens.