Bloomberg added price quotes for three other coins, Ripple, Ethereum and Litecoin, to its terminal service, used by major banks and investment houses worldwide. Bitcoin price quotes were added previously. Ethereum relies on a more versatile type of software that has made it a popular platform for many other digital tokens.
Litecoin is built as a quicker, more efficient clone of bitcoin. Ripple is a private company that provides blockchain technology to banks, and allows some of its currency (known as XRP) to trade in the open market.