Stantander is old news. They were the first to sign up to the January tests for the R3 group.
We want to bring the banking establisment to its knees not get into bed with it.
What would happen if Satoshi struck a deal with Goldman Sachs, Bitcoin would be finnished!
You just don't get crypto do you?
Watch our interview with Santanders blockchain chief John Whelan below. Mr. Whelan explained that even though the project uses Ethereum technology, it is not exposed to the public Ethereum blockchain. London-based blockchain lab Clearmatics, involved with the settlement coin concept, started with a flavor of Ethereum but this project is likely to end up being rather proprietary in nature.
So it is nothing special. Santander is using ripple (xrp is asset).