144,300,000 XRP Suddenly Hit Market, Here Are Big Players Behind This
05/16/2025 20:45
Massive amount of XRP shifted by anon whales that proved to be key crypto space participants
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Prominent blockchain sleuth Whale Alert, which monitors large cryptocurrency movements, has spotted two crypto transactions, carrying a massive XRP chunk each. Altogether, more than $350 million worth of XRP have been transferred.
These transactions took place as the fourth largest digital currency, XRP, began to recover today after the 4.46% decline faced over the past day.
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The aforementioned data source detected two hefty transfers – 50,000,000 XRP and 94,326,840 XRP. Those XRP lumps were equal to $120,386,319 and $232,800,834. The first one took place five hours ago, and the other one occurred on Thursday.
While in both cases, Whale Alert tagged the sender and receiver wallets as anonymous, additional data shared by XRPscan says that 50,000,000 XRP was transferred by the San-Francisco-based blockchain giant Ripple, while the 94,326,840 XRP chunk was moved by major cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com. In both of these cases, the receiver wallets were not linked to any exchange.
However, in the past, Ripple moved large amounts of XRP either to centralized exchanges or to OTC platforms to sell millions of XRP. The crypto behemoth regularly sells XRP to use the converted fiat for covering its operational expenses and supporting XRP liquidity on the market.
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