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Ripple is set to release another 1 billion XRP from escrow tomorrow, November 1, 2025, continuing its standard monthly schedule.  At XRP’s current price of $2.49, the upcoming unlock is valued at roughly $2.49 billion. XRP 24-hour price. Source: Finbold The escrow mechanism, introduced in 2017, was designed to ensure predictable XRP supply and prevent market flooding. As previously reported, Ripple historically tends to sell or use only around 200–300 million of the XRP unlocked each month, while re-locking the rest into new contracts. For instance, the company re-escrowed 750 million XRP from its October 1 unlock. Accordingly, the effective increase in circulating supply value could range between $500 million and $750 million, significantly lower than the full $2.49 billion headline figure. November XRP escrow release The November release has been made more interesting by Ripple CTO David Schwartz’s statement that the company can legally sell or tr...

On the first day of every month, Ripple unlock s 1 billion XRP tokens from an escrow system programmed within the XRP Ledger. This is set to happen again on October 1 (Sunday), in three transactions of 100 million, 400 million, and 500 million XRP. Notably, October 2023’s unlock accrues for 1.87% of the current circulating supply of 53.31 billion XRP, and part of the remaining 46.69 billion XRP tokens owned by Ripple, that are still locked in escrows to be released monthly until February 2027. There are three escrows set to be finalized on the last minutes of September 30, held by two known wallet addresses under Ripple’s control: Address “Ripple (22)” —  for an unlock of 500 million XRP, that was locked on July 01, 2019, with the transaction ID “D0C3E…7568F”. Address “Ripple (23)” — for an unlock of 100 million XRP, that was locked on July 01, 2019, with the transaction ID “532CD…1E4D2”. Address “Ripple (23)” — for an unlock of 400 million XRP, that was locked on August 01,...