XRP News: Over 592 Million XRP Moved: What Are Whales Up To?

XRP News: In the past 24 hours, Whales moved a total of 592,258,033 XRP (worth $227,439,311) in six separate transactions.
By Coingape Staff
Updated May 16, 2025
XRP Whales Move $814 Million, What Is Going On?

XRP News: Ripple’s native crypto, XRP witness a significant increase in whale movement. However, crypto whales have been on an XRP accumulation spree since December 2022 as Ripple Vs the SEC lawsuit is edging closer to a judgment. Meanwhile, the tracker reported that in just six separate transactions, a total of 592,258,033 XRP (worth $227,439,311) were moved across the platform.

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XRP and Crypto Whales: Something Smells Fishy

According to Whale Alerts, an on-chain whale transaction analytics platform, Mysterious whales moved 592.25 million XRP tokens in six different transactions. A whale moved 232,000,000 XRP worth $88.721,867, the largest of the six transactions, from one unknown wallet to another unknown wallet.

A second whale moved 218,000,000 XRP worth $84,153,392, once again from an unknown wallet to another unknown wallet. In the third and fourth transactions, 63,000,000 XRP worth $24,213,047 was moved from unknown wallets to the crypto exchange Bitstamp.

In the fifth transaction, a crypto whale moved 44,000,000 XRP tokens worth 16.869,516 from Bitso, a crypto exchange, to an unknown wallet. And the last transaction, 35,258,033 XRP was moved from the Binance exchange to an unknown wallet. Read more XRP news here…

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In the Deep Shade of Red

At the time of writing, the XRP price is trading at $0.3644. The 6th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down more than 4.88% in the past 24 hours. XRP is also down more than 5.79% from its one-month high.

Source – CoinMarketCap

The bearish sentiment from the broader crypto market left XRP in the deep shade of red, with no Ripple Vs the SEC lawsuit updates to distract investors.

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