XRP Ripple Held Firm After its September Escrow Release
XRP Ripple Held Firm After its September Escrow Release
Fewer payments with much larger value points to institutional or enterprise-scale transfers rather than a retail wave, a pattern worth watching alongside broader questions about who is actually driving new XRPL usage.
Active addresses on the ledger hit 2.26 million in August, more than double July's 1.02 million, while total value locked rose from $32.31M to $44.42M over the same stretch.
None of this proves a single causal chain from ETF demand to unlocking absorption, but it does describe a market with considerably greater liquidity depth than the one that panicked over past escrow releases – a shift also visible in growing institutional participation in CME futures markets.
(SOURCE: CoinGlass)
Why the XRP Ripple Unlock Became Background Noise
The escrow program has now run on the same predictable monthly schedule for eight years. Everyone knows the size of the release and Ripple's historical re-escrow behavior, which removes the information asymmetry that once fueled panic selling around the first of the month.
The broader backdrop has shifted too. The SEC and Ripple jointly dismissed their appeals on August 11, 2025, closing out a multi-year legal fight, and spot ETFs plus growing XRPL usage have since given the token more structural demand channels than it had in prior years.
This article has been published in 99bitcoins.com via Yahoo News.
XRP Ripple Held Firm After its September Escrow Release
XRP Ripple released 1 billion tokens from escrow on September 1, worth roughly $1.38Bn at the time, and the sell-off traders have feared for years never materialized. The token was trading around $1.38 when the tokens hit Ripple-controlled wallets and sat near $1.42 five days later. That muted...
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