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Community tracker Whale Alert spotted substantial volumes of $XRP tokens departing Binance to anonymous destinations in the last few hours.
The first transaction involved the movement of 50,307,383 $XRP from Binance to an $XRP wallet with the initials “rarG6FaeYh.” This transaction occurred on May 31, at 23:40 (UTC), precisely 20 minutes before the new month. At the time of the transaction, the $XRP assets in motion were worth $26,081,749.
100M $XRP Moved Out of Binance
Just an hour later, another 50,307,376 $XRP, worth over $26.08 million, left Binance for another anonymous wallet. Collectively, Whale Alert documented the transfer of 100,614,759 $XRP valued at $52,125,759 from Binance to two anonymous wallets.
Scrutinizing the Anonymous Wallets
An examination of blockchain data indicates a possible connection between two unidentified $XRP wallets and the prominent crypto exchange. In particular, Binance activated both wallets exactly five months ago.
Moreover, the transaction history for each wallet reveals a pattern of frequent, small-scale transfers to different platforms, with these transactions happening within minutes of each other.
421M $XRP Moved in Two days
Meanwhile, Binance is not the only prominent trading platform where whale $XRP movements are observable.
On Thursday, the tracking service Whale Alert observed transfers totaling 58,190,000 $XRP from undisclosed wallets to the centralized exchanges Bitstamp and Bitso.
On the same day, renowned U.S.-based exchange Kraken transferred a staggering 262,575,885 $XRP, valued at over $137.2 million, to an unknown wallet in a single transaction. This particular transfer caught the community’s eye, as evidenced by the 150K interactions on the Whale Alert tweet.
Interestingly, these substantial $XRP transfers coincided with $XRP’s price decline to $0.5136 on the same day.
Essentially, over the past two days, as $XRP’s value has declined, significant movement of $XRP has occurred involving major exchanges, with a total of 421,380,644 $XRP tokens transferred.
Ripple to Join the Trend
Meanwhile, the crypto market is expected to see more $XRP movements in the next few hours, this time from the prominent crypto payment firm Ripple. Ripple is anticipated to release 1 billion $XRP from escrow with the onset of June. However, Whale Alert has not yet recorded this unlock.
Typically, after such an escrow release, Ripple re-escrows 800 million $XRP and utilizes the remaining 200 million for its operational expenses. This pattern was evident on May 13 and May 20, when Ripple transferred 150 million and 50 million $XRP, respectively, to an external wallet.