Why is Ripple's focus primarily on financial institutions?

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Ripple aims to revolutionize the traditional financial transaction system by providing fast and low-cost international transfers. Focusing on financial institutions helps them target the root of many cross-border transaction inefficiencies.

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How does XRP's decentralization compare to that of Bitcoin?

While XRP prides itself on a decentralized circulating supply, with the top 10 addresses holding only 10.7% of the total supply, Bitcoin is also decentralized but with different distribution metrics.