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Ripple Sells Millions of XRP After Receiving 100 Million XRP From Mysterious Whale

Mon, 09/18/2023 - 16:00
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Yuri Molchan
Fintech giant Ripple has transferred $15 million worth of XRP to Bitstamp after receiving anonymous transfer of 100 million XRP; here's who sent it
Ripple Sells Millions of XRP After Receiving 100 Million XRP From Mysterious Whale
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Prominent cryptocurrency tracker Whale Alert has spotted a massive amount of XRP transferred from an anonymous wallet to the centralized crypto exchange Bitstamp.

Details provided by Bithomp analytics platform demonstrate that the sending wallet belonged to blockchain company Ripple based in San Francisco, as it continues to sell more or less similar lumps of XRP, moving them to the aforementioned exchange.

This time, Ripple shifted a total of 29,600,000 XRP to sell, which is equal to $14,525,944.

Over the past two months, the DLT giant has been moving around two such XRP chunks to Bitstamp.

The above-mentioned transaction took place after, on Saturday, Ripple behemoth received a whopping 100,000,000 XRP from a wallet marked by Whale Alert as "unknown."

However, data provided by Bithomp shows that the sender was Canada-based crypto exchange SideShift. The reasons for this transfer are unknown. However, a few years ago, a series of transfers was spotted from Binance to Ripple. A possible reason here is that exchanges sometimes move extra XRP that they received from Ripple back to it. Or, Ripple could be buying back XRP from the secondary market. However, no statements from the company about that have been made.

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Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.