Ripple, the company behind the XRPL development and XRP’s largest token holder, is preparing its treasury for March sales. Onchain data reveals Ripple has reserved 300 million XRP from the 1 billion unlocked on March 1, as Finbold reported. At these prices, the amount is worth $795 million.
Finbold retrieved the reserve’s transaction history from XRP Scan, which shows the labeled ‘Ripple (1)’ account receiving the tokens. This is a known pattern that repeats monthly, when Ripple unlocks 1 billion XRP from the genesis distribution, reserves a fraction for its budget’s sales, and re-locks the rest for future unlocks.
Last month, the company unlocked the same 1 billion, reserved 300 million XRP, and later sold the tokens. Now, the market wonders if the same thing will happen in March, with the $795 million-worth of reserved XRP.
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Ripple’s XRP activity in March and February sales
Precisely, the activity developed with Ripple moving XRP previously unlocked in February from the ‘Ripple (26)’ and ‘Ripple (27)’ accounts. This happens because the company have not directly used the month’s unlocked tokens for February activity, as would be expected.
Actually, Ripple used an idle reserve from ‘Ripple (24)’ and ‘Ripple (25)’, leaving the 1 billion unlocked XRP untouched. After putting this “untouched” amount to work during the first weekend of March, Ripple activated the escrows, effectively completing the unlock of this month.
It is important to understand that this is not the usual behavior Finbold has reported in the last few months. Still, the premise is similar, with the company unlocking, reserving, and selling XRP from its very significant holdings.
Following this premise, ‘Ripple (26)’ sent 300 million XRP to ‘Ripple (1)’ on March 1 and 200 million to ‘Ripple (13)’, which was then re-locked into an escrow set for May 2028. ‘Ripple (27)’ sent the full 500 million XRP to ‘Ripple (12)’ for the same purpose, locking it in another escrow.
XRP price analysis and the $795 million selling pressure
As of this writing, XRP is trading at $2.65 per token. Up 16% in the last 24 hours, following Donald Trump’s announcement to add it to the US treasury reserve.
Nevertheless, XRP is still down 11.52% in the last 30 days, since Ripple prepared February’s dump, as previously reported. This helps to illustrate the potential impacts of such significant supply pressure from the company’s sales, even with bug demand.
Now, traders and investors will need to watch the following developments and activity, as they position themselves around the news.
While the company did not disclose each sale separately, Ripple has already disclosed its selling model on many occasions. According to sources, its XRP sales go through an On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) model, selling at market price to willing customers.
Yet, even this model requires an upcoming demand and dilutes exchanges’ order books by absorbing most of this XRP buying pressure.
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