Crypto tracker Whale Alert has spotted several mind-blowing XRP transactions which carried almost one billion of these coins. This signifies that investors’ interest to XRP as an asset remains on the high level.

Ripple San-Francisco-based blockchain giant was among those who conducted these transactions. It happened right after Ripple released a whopping billion XRP from escrow on August 1.

Almost one billion XRP on the move, Ripple shifts 75 million XRP

The aforementioned blockchain tracking service spread the word about four massive XRP transfers. The largest two of them carried 424,354,912 XRP and 424,604,934 XRP worth $214,293,666 and $221,841,994 at the times of the transfers.

These chunks were sent between anonymous whales. The first XRP lump was transferred to a walletrJps4V3s9U87NDAJuGS7qX6mAdWxpcZNeX on August 31. Then, on September 1, the second XRP lump, slightly bigger than that, was moved from this address to rp6JBQ4rLrjfXgojhqm8Eikf4nusT8miuk.

Neither of these addresses are marked as belonging to any crypto exchanges by Whale Alert or by the XRP-focused analytics platform Bithomp, they are tagged as “unknown” wallets.

Among the other two transfers was one made by Ripple giant as it sent 75,000,000 XRP to anonymous cryptocurrency wallet. This anon wallet has proved to be one which also belongs to the company, though. This usually happens when the company intends to sell some of its crypto – it moves XRP to an internal wallet and then off to a crypto exchange.

Ripple locks back 700 million XRP; court drama continues

On August 1, Ripple made a scheduled monthly programmed release of XRP, unlocking one billion of these coins from escrow in four large transactions.

Around 13 hours ago, the blockchain behemoth transferred 800,000,000 XRP back, locking them in escrow until the next release in October.

In August, Ripple had a major win in court against the SEC when the court judge ruled that the company’s XRP sales on the secondary market did not qualify as security sales, but Ripple’s sales of XRP to financial institutions did. After that, several large exchanges relisted XRP, pushing its price up. Many investors again started purchasing this digital currency, hoping to make healthy profits on it in the near future as they expect a further price hike.

After that the securities regulator filed an appeal to the court again. Yesterday, Ripple submitted an opposition to SEC’s appeal request.