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As part of its periodic move to consistently manage $XRP’s supply, Ripple has completed its escrow distribution for March, locking 700 million $XRP as of March 3.
According to data provided by XRPwallets, an X account committed to tracking Ripple and $XRP-based transactions, the March escrow distribution process has now concluded.
Following this event, the $XRP community is expecting XRPscan to confirm that approximately 33.595 billion $XRP are remaining in escrow following the latest March relock.
As seen in previous months, the move follows Ripple’s regular pattern of unlocking one billion $XRP at the start of every month, and later relocking a significant portion of it to maintain predictable supply flows.
As such, the blockchain firm unlocked a total of one billion $XRP from its escrow wallet as of March 1, 2026, and has now relocked 700 million $XRP earlier today.
$XRP reacts with mild price surge
Ripple has remained committed to consistently reshuffling its $XRP escrow wallet as a decisive effort to regulate its supply while positioning its price for a potential upswing.
However, the latest $XRP escrow relock is yet to influence the asset’s price action, as $XRP has only shown a mild price resurgence over the period.
Over the last day, $XRP has only surged 0.42% after trading in deep red territory for the past weeks. With the mild price surge, the asset is trading at $1.34 as of writing time.
Ripple to relock 700 million in April
While the escrow activity for March has now completed, the $XRP community expects the firm to unlock another one billion $XRP by April 1, followed by a 700 million $XRP relock.
This will follow Ripple’s consistent relocking of 700 million $XRP in January, February and March, as each month all followed the same pattern.
While this tends to bring the total escrow balance to about 33.295 billion $XRP by April, there is growing speculation that Ripple may reduce its relock amount to 600 million $XRP at some point in 2026.