In past 24 hours, a staggering amount of XRP has been moved, with a key Ripple partner involved
Leading digital currency tracker Whale Alert has spread the word on Twitter that in the past 30 hours, a staggering amount of XRP, around 700 million coins, has been transferred.
In the meantime, the XRP price has not been on the rise, falling by nearly 9% over the past seven days.
675 million XRP transferred
Whale Alert posted several blocks of tweets, announcing that a total of 675 million XRP had been sent by various large XRP holders and crypto exchanges.
The largest transactions here carried lumps of 179,500,000 XRP and 262,413,821 XRP. All the rest contained 40 million coins and just one moved around 60 million.
The transfer of 62,300,000 XRP worth $21,734,574 was made by a major Ripple partner for dissemination of ODL technology, Bitso crypto exchange.
The transaction was performed between internal wallets of the crypto trading platform as it has often done this year, redistributing funds between its addresses.
The Bittrex exchange also received a flow of 40 million XRP from an unknown user, according to data provided by the Bithomp XRP explorer.
The total worth of the transferred 675 million XRP amounted to $231,714,675 in fiat currency.
xrp price performance
XRP, the seventh largest cryptocurrency, has lost more than 6% since Friday, December 16, printing multiple red candles, falling from $0.36609 to the current level of $0.34295.
Over the past week, since Dec. 14, the XRP price has decreased by more than 13% as a sell-off was caused by a scheduled interest rate hike by the Fed. This time, it was raised by 50 basis points.
