According to prominent blockchain tracking platform Whale Alert, which monitors large cryptocurrency transfers and then shares the details on its X account, less than 20 hours ago, a mind-blowing amount of XRP changed hands. These cumulative XRP transactions amounted to more than half a billion coins. Blockchain giant Ripple took an active part in transferring these hundreds of millions worth of crypto.
This coincided with a massive price surge demonstrated by the Ripple-affiliated cryptocurrency over the last day as XRP touched the $0.57825 price level.
Half billion XRP on move
The above-mentioned data source reported that roughly 14 hours ago, two mammoth XRP transactions were spotted. One carried 100,000,000 XRP valued at $53,270,381, while the other transfer contained a whopping 470,000,000 XRP worth $250,454,910 in fiat.
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🚨 🚨 🚨 100,000,000 #XRP (53,270,381 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallethttps://t.co/oO74WQfI1W
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 6, 2024The second and the largest transfer was performed by San Francisco-based blockchain juggernaut Ripple headed by Brad Garlinghouse. Both transfers took place within a single hour.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 470,000,000 #XRP (250,454,910 USD) transferred from #Ripple to unknown wallethttps://t.co/cIMknG2fMH
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 6, 2024Ripple made this mammoth-sized XRP transfer to an anonymous blockchain address. However, data shared by XRP-focused explorer Bithomp shows that this wallet was also affiliated with Ripple. After these 470 million XRP landed on it, Bithomp noticed an outgoing transfer carrying 100,000,000 XRP in an unknown direction, too.
The motives behind this enormous XRP transfer initiated by the blockchain heavyweight remain unknown, however, Ripple frequently performs such transactions which result in XRP sales. The proceeds are used by the company to cover its operations and (over the past four years) legal expenses in its case against the SEC regulator.
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Following Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies demonstrated big price surges as well. Among them was XRP, which soared by almost 10% in the last 24 hours, briefly hitting $0.57825. By now, it has experienced a pullback of 4% and is changing hands at $0.55601 on major exchange Bitstamp.
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