272 Million XRP in 24 Hours After SEC’s Appeal – What's Happening?
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Popular cryptocurrency tracker Whale Alert has traced several large XRP transactions over the last day, noticing massive XRP withdrawals from the world’s top crypto exchanges.
All in all, slightly more than a quarter of a billion XRP has been shoveled mysteriously from these crypto trading platforms by anonymous crypto whales.
Yuri MolchanBig XRP outflows hit top exchanges
The aforesaid data source spotted seven large XRP transactions that have taken place over the last 24 hours on the XRP Ledger. Since the majority of them featured a large cryptocurrency exchange, this is indicative of XRP whales increasing their activity, as they seem to be buying and selling XRP rigorously.
Large outflows were spotted as anonymous whales withdrew XRP from Binance and Indodax exchanges – 28,900,823 and 30,000,000 XRP worth $15,126,001 and $15,689,469. Such exchanges as Bitstamp, Bitso and, again, Binance witnessed substantial deposited from anonymous market participants.
A total of 19,220,000 XRP was sent to Bitstamp, 30,380,000 XRP went the Mexican crypto unicorn Bitso and, finally, 30,000,000 XRP were moved to Binance.
One transaction on this list stands out, according to Whale Alert’s data, since it carried a staggering 104,384,848 XRP and was conducted between two unknown blockchain addresses. This XRP chunk is the equivalent of $4,662,653.
SEC appeals Ripple case
As reported by U.Today, earlier this week, the regulatory agency, the SEC finally decided to challenge the court’s recent decisions on the Ripple case and filed an appeal. The deadline was Oct. 7, so the Securities and Exchange Commission just made it in a few days before the deadline.
Last year, in July, Federal Judge Analisa Torres ruled that XRP sales on secondary markets did not qualify as security sales. This year, Ripple scored another victory against the SEC when the judge reduced the $2 billion fine requested by the SEC from Ripple to $125 million.
Ripple Chief Executive Brad Garlinghouse has criticized the regulator for this move. Still, the XRP price felt the full negative impact of the appeal as it collapsed by more than 9% since Wednesday, when the SEC appealed the lost case. After crashing from the $0.58 level on Oct. 2, XRP is currently changing hands at $0.52. Overall, since Sunday, XRP has lost more than 20% of its market price.
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