Coinbase has announced its plans on Twitter recently that they might introduce trading on 6 additional cryptocurrencies. These include ZCash, 0X, and a few others including Stellar. Now when they included Stellar and not Ripple, that has indeed raised many eyebrows in the community.
This raises questions whether there is more brewing in the backrpund between Ripple and Coinbase. Whether there is some beef between them is a matter of dispute. I would say that this seems to be the case. Earlier, Coinbase had openly said that they dont want to list projects which had ICO's and hence may be deemed as securities. Now many of these coins have had ICO's . To top it all, Stellar is actually a fork of Ripple created by Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb. Thus, once again Ripple's XRP has been ignored. Whether XRP actually needs Coinbase or not to eventually increase in value is a matter of debate over the short term. However, over the long-term I have absolutely no doubt that XRP doesnt need Coinbase at all. In fact when over the next few years when XRP becomes numero uno, Coinbase will have to cede to it.
