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A recent Glassnode report found that Ripple has released or “issued” about 5.6% of the circulating $XRP supply in the last 12 months.
The XRPL architects launched $XRP with a pre-mine of its entire supply. However, after gifting a sizable amount of the supply to Ripple, the firm locked up most of its allocations, and a recent Glassnode report claims over 3 billion tokens entered the market over the past year.
Specifically, Cryptovizart, Glassnode’s pseudonymous lead analyst, revealed that Ripple has released or “issued” about 3.4 billion $XRP tokens since December 2024. He shared an accompanying chart which details the rate at which $XRP tokens entered the circulating supply since April 2021.
Amid the spike in issuance rate, the total cumulative tokens released hit the current figure of around 18 billion. According to the disclosure, of this cumulative 18 billion figure, Ripple released 3.4 billion $XRP worth about $8 billion from December 2024 to date.
Specifically, the 3.4 billion $XRP represents 5.6% of $XRP’s circulating supply of 60 billion tokens, while the $8 billion represents 42% of all $XRP released in dollar terms.
For context, the Ripple escrow system often releases 1 billion $XRP tokens each month, which should add up to 12 billion tokens over a year. However, the firm typically locks up 700 million to 800 million $XRP each month. They then leverage the 200 million to 300 million tokens for funding purposes.
Spike in $XRP Profit-Taking Volume
The recent disclosure from Cryptovizart follows an official report five days ago in which Glassnode confirmed that profit realization around $XRP had spiked. According to the analytics platform, profit realization spiked to $800 million per day in December 2024 before dropping below $100 million from April to July 2025.
Unlike previous profit realization waves that aligned with rallies, since late September, as $XRP fell from $3.09 (~25%) to $2.30, profit realization volume (7D-SMA) surged by ~240%, from $65M/day to $220M/day.
This divergence underscores distribution into weakness, not strength.… https://t.co/PUURD4knVZ pic.twitter.com/jMWj3mF0Td
— glassnode (@glassnode) November 8, 2025
Another spike occurred in late July 2025, as $XRP soared to a new all-time high around $3.66, but this spike was also short-lived. Glassnode reported that a gradual increase had now emerged, with profit-taking volume growing from $65 million per day in late September to $220 million now. This has contributed to $XRP’s price struggles.